The twin is the place the AI has to live
Dassault Systèmes builds the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for virtual twins across design, simulation, and operations. On 28 August 2026, Bryan Chandelier Nobis used the Monthly Industrial AI Call to show enhancing those twins with AI: Virtual Companions inside industrial design and operations.
The useful test is whether the companion can act on the product and the plant the team already models. A chat that cannot see the twin is another tool to keep in sync.
Why this hour pairs the twin with the edge
August’s call treats virtual twins, edge infrastructure, and organisational readiness as three layers of the same deployment question. This talk is the product layer: AI that stays with the twin through design and operations.
The next published part is NodeWeaver’s Edge AI platform - compute at the site that does not need a heavy operations stack. A companion in the twin still has to run somewhere the plant can trust.