Today marks a milestone in how the industry works. Virtual Companions — Aura, Leo, and Marie — are now globally available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS, in the Age of Industrial AI.
More than AI assistants, Virtual Companions are trusted experts who embody decades of industrial knowledge and know-how. They understand your intent, reason with Industry World Models grounded in the laws of physics and materials science, and orchestrate actions across the full lifecycle of your products — helping you see the invisible and achieve the impossible, before anything physically exists.
This is not about adding AI to your tools. It's a new kind of teamwork — humans and Virtual Companions co-creating, safely and at scale, on your most complex challenges.
But what are Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences?
Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences help you complete and automate activities reliably, from analyzing technical data, to generating deliverables, to solving complex engineering problems.
Virtual Companions
Virtual Companions are the AI-powered virtual workforce of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS.
They reason, plan and act to address complex industrial problems and interact with you through natural conversations.
Each Virtual Companion has a specific mission, accomplished thru Competencies, and a distinct personality.
Competencies are the ability to perform a particular job or purpose. A Competency covers an entire domain of expertise, relying on more granular skills. For example, project management or mechanical design.
There are three distinct Virtual Companions:
AURA - The Business Expert Empowers any user by leveraging Enterprise Knowledge & Know-How | |
LEO - The Engineer Effectively solve technical challenges in all engineering disciplines | |
MARIE - The Scientist Bring Deep Scientific Knowledge to Engineers or Researchers |
Generative Experiences
Generative Experiences leverage Industry Knowledge & Know-How to robotize industrial processes.
They create or enrich Virtual Twins, while ensuring quality and compliance with industry and enterprise standards.
They can complete complex or repetitive tasks significantly faster than manual processes, reducing the time that users, teams, and organizations spend on certain operations.
By taking on lower-value tasks, they enable users, teams, and organizations to dedicate more time to creative, strategic, and high-value work, fostering innovation.
REINVENT YOUR PLM with ENOVIA in the Age of Industrial AI
ENOVIA is the foundation for the Virtual Twin of the Organization, which combines enterprise Roles, Processes, Virtual Companion competencies, and Generative Experiences to deliver the right performance, leveraging 30 years of Enterprise Program, Product & Portfolio lifecycle management from ideation to Sales & Marketing.
After pioneering Product Lifecycle Management in the late 90s, and introducing the first-ever model-based PLM solution with 3DEXPERIENCE ENOVIA in 2014, ENOVIA is leading the way in the next generation of Product Lifecycle Management.
Throughout your new Product Development & Introduction process, our Virtual Companion competencies & Generative Experiences powered by AI-based Virtual Twins will boost the productivity of your PLM stakeholders, and be a catalyst for a new way of work at scale.
From generative product development and optimized portfolio execution to building resilient value networks, ensuring proactive quality & compliance, and enhancing personalized sales experiences, ENOVIA accelerates your journey of Enterprise Continuous Reinvention, empowering teams to adapt, innovate and execute with greater speed and confidence.
Over the upcoming months, ENOVIA will introduce new Virtual Companion competencies across its portfolio. Stay tuned for more updates...
AURA | Project Management | AURA | Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management AURA | Engineering Product Management |
AURA | Regulatory Compliance | ⌚More to come... |
Since every discipline operates differently, each Virtual Companion includes competencies designed for the way you work. Here's what this means for YOU:
Virtual Companion Competencies
| AURA | Project Management Competency | |
Typically, project management relies on manual planning, reactive decisions, and time-consuming reporting, making it difficult to anticipate risks and stay on schedule.
With AURA Project Management, you can elevate project managers into a strategic and execution-ready leaders. AURA provides valuable insights, helps identify risks earlier, streamlines the creation of actionable plans and tasks, and increases the overall efficiency for all project stakeholders.
With AURA Project Management : 🔸Reach 70% project management productivity, boosting your operational capacity by a factor 25% 🔸Enhance project quality and mitigate risks in real-time to ensure project success. 🔸Capitalize and diffuse knowledge and know-how. | |
Moment 1: AURA | Project Management Introduction | |
Challenge: First-of-a-kind or engineer-to-order projects are inherently unique, forcing leaders to create custom plans under uncertainty. Without validated data, they risk incorrect assumptions, leading to schedule overruns and costly errors. Manual tracking via static files exacerbates inefficiencies, introducing error-prone processes that hinder progress updates and further compromise timelines and accuracy. Solution: With AURA | Project Management, project leaders use best-in-class LLMs to generate actionable, data-driven plans from prompts defining scope and objectives. Plans tie to product data and requirements, creating a live project virtual twin updated instantly by the team. Benefit: Elevate the project planner into a strategic and execution-ready leader by providing insights, identifying risks sooner, streamlining the creation of actionable plans and tasks, and increasing the overall efficiency and successful execution of the project. | |
Moment 2: AURA | Project Management Generation from an EXCEL file | |
Challenge: Projects trapped in static XLS / CSV files stay disconnected from execution reality, forcing manual reconciliation between plans and actual progress. Valuable industry and customer data remains siloed, causing delayed risk detection and error-prone updates that compromise timelines and accuracy. Solution: Using AURA | Project Management, with a simple drag and drop, project leaders can ingest XLS-based project data and AURA will automatically generate a live Virtual Twin of the project: an executable model that can be run and continuously optimized using accumulated industry and customer data. Benefit: Turn static spreadsheets into living, connected and in context project assets, enabling real-time accuracy, earlier risk detection, and continuous optimization for greater efficiency and project success. | |
Moment 3: AURA | Project Management Insights | |
| Challenge: Project Managers can't manage projects efficiently when they lack real-time visibility into project and task status. Without these insights, it's not possible to effectively manage risks, make informed decisions, or ensure projects are delivered on time. Solution: AURA | Project Management Insight leverages the power of Industrial AI to give you instant, intelligent visibility into your projects. Instead of manually searching through tasks and reports, AURA quickly analyzes project data to provide real-time observations such as project status, task progress, completion and overdue tasks. This enables faster decision-making, early risk detection, and more efficient project delivery - all through simple, natural language interactions. Benefit: AURA | Project Management Insight eliminates manual data collection by providing real-time visibility into every project. It identifies risks, delays and bottlenecks, tracks progress and task status and replaces outdated weekly snapshots with always up-to-date project insights. With accurate, actionable information at your fingertips, you can make faster, more informed decisions, improve stakeholder communication and deliver projects with greater speed, efficiency, and confidence - on time and on target. |
Moment 4: Project Management for Risk Management | |
Challenge: Project Managers often struggle to proactively identify and manage project risks. Risks are frequently documented manually, relying on individual experience and inconsistent processes, which can lead to overlooked threats, delayed mitigation, and unexpected project issues that affect timelines, budgets, and delivery. Solution: AURA Project Management for Risk Management uses Industrial AI to automatically create project risks by analyzing project schedules, execution data, health metrics, and team feedback. It can also analyze existing risks, recommend mitigation actions, and generate mitigation tasks. All through simple natural language interactions. Benefit: AURA Project Management for Risk Management transforms risk management from a manual, reactive process into an intelligent, automated capability. It reduces the time and effort required to identify, document, and mitigate project risks, improves the accuracy and completeness of project risk registers, accelerates mitigation planning, strengthens project governance, and helps teams to deliver projects on time with greater confidence. | |
Start your learning journey with AURA | Project Management
Watch the first ENOVIA to the MAX webinar of 2026, Unleash Innovation with ENOVIA & 3DEXPERIENCE powered by AI.
https://events.3ds.com/unleash-innovation-enovia-3dexperience-ai
Start your AURA Project Management training and explore how AURA uses AI to automate project creation and optimize project execution.
Generative Experiences
💡 Did you know: Generative Experiences are powering AURA Competencies but are also accessible directly within the applications such as Project Planning or Requirement Management:
Moment 1: Generative Project Delay Prediction and Mitigation | |
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| Challenge: Project Leaders often identify risks when it is too late causing unplanned schedule changes leading to delays and increased costs. Solution: Machine Learning model that predicts tasks at risk of being delayed even before the delay occurs and provides actionable suggestions to mitigate risk of delay.
Benefit: Ensure project success by identifying at-risk tasks early and generating targeted mitigation recommendation, leveraging past project knowledge & knowhow |
Moment 2: Generative Systems Requirement Creation | |
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| Challenge: Organizations developing standards-governed products must comply with complex and constantly evolving regulations. Managing compliance manually is time-consuming, costly and prone to errors. Solution: Generate requirements specifications from PDF documents.
Benefit: Accelerate systems specification and certification by automatically extracting requirements from complex documents. Improve requirements quality by eliminating ambiguity, contradictions, and duplicates while ensuring standardized formatting and consistent terminology |
