📢 What's New | Generative Experiences & Virtual Companions

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.

 

Blue Tokens

Blue Tokens power our Virtual Companions—AURA, LEO, and MARIE—enabling AI-driven engineering, business, and scientific workflows across our product portfolio. Blue Tokens are now available for purchase online for customers running the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the Public Cloud. 

 

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
Generative Project Delay Prediction and Mitigation

AURA | Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management

AURA | Engineering Product Management

 

AURA | Regulatory Compliance
Generative Systems Requirement Creation

⌚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: AURA | 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. 
AURA enables project managers to continuously monitor project health, uncover potential risks, and take action before issues escalate.

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.

Moment 5: AURA | Project Management Sentiment Analysis

 

Challenge:

Project managers are constantly reviewing large volumes of project information, from team discussions and status updates to comments and feedback. Turning this unstructured data into meaningful insights is time-consuming, making it easy for important signals and emerging issues to be missed.

Solution:

AURA | Project Management Sentiment Analysis automatically analyzes project conversations to understand the context and intent behind team feedback. It transforms unstructured comments into actionable insights, performs sentiment analysis to classify comments as positive, neutral, or negative, and identifies potential concerns. For each identified issue, AURA creates a prioritized risk, generates a meaningful title, description, and probable root cause, and assigns it to the project owner for follow-up.

Benefit:

Project leaders gain a clearer understanding of project health and emerging concerns without spending time manually reviewing large volumes of information. By surfacing insights earlier and providing better context for decision-making, AURA | Project Management Sentiment Analysis helps teams respond faster, improve collaboration, strengthen project governance, and increase confidence in project delivery.

Moment 6: AURA | Project Management Task Escalation

 

 

Challenge:

Managing project tasks manually makes it difficult to quickly identify overdue tasks. Project managers spend valuable time reviewing task lists, tracking delays, and following up with team members, increasing the risk that late tasks are overlooked and timelines impacted.

 

Solution:

AURA Project Management automatically identifies late tasks and adds a comment to each overdue task. AURA alerts and notifies the assignees, prompting them to take action and address the overdue tasks as soon as possible, ensuring that the required follow-up is applied consistently. 

Benefit:

AURA Project Management helps teams quickly recognize overdue work and take action without manual monitoring and follow-up. This saves time, improves visibility into project delays, accelerates response to overdue tasks, and helps keep projects on track.

 
Moment 7: AURA | Project Management Smart Task Assignment

 

 

Challenge:

Unassigned tasks can easily fall through the cracks. Identifying them and manually deciding who should take ownership is time consuming. 
Project leaders need a quick way to find unassigned tasks and distribute the workload fairly.

 

Solution:

AURA Project Management lists all unassigned tasks, suggests the most suitable assignees, and splits tasks evenly between recommended team members. 

Benefit:

With AURA Project Management, project leaders speed the planning process, reduce manual coordination, balance workloads more efficiently, and make sure every task has a clear owner, helping the team move work forward faster.

Moment 8: AURA | Project Management Workload Distribution

 

 

 

Challenge:

When tasks are distributed across a project team, simply looking at the number of assigned tasks doesn’t tell the full story. Different tasks require different levels of effort, making it difficult for project leaders to identify workload imbalances and ensure work is distributed fairly.

 

Solution:

AURA Project Management analyzes task assignments together with the expected effort to identify workload imbalances across the team. It then recommends adjustments to help distribute the work more evenly and make better use of the team’s available capacity.

Benefit:

With AURA Project Management, project leaders can quickly identify workload imbalances, reduce manual analysis, and make informed assignment decisions, helping ensure work is distributed appropriately and the project stays on track.

Moment 9: AURA | Project Management Work Orchestration

 

 

 

Challenge:

Project managers often deal with complex, long-duration tasks that involve multiple steps. When these tasks are not clearly broken down, it can be difficult to understand the work involved, plan effectively, and give the team clear next steps.
 

Solution:

AURA Project Management analyzes long-duration tasks to identify opportunities for further breakdown. It then generates clear, actionable subtasks that structure the work and make complex tasks easier to plan and execute.

Benefit:

With AURA Project Management, project leaders can reduce planning effort, improve visibility into the work ahead, and give teams greater clarity on what needs to be done, helping them execute with more confidence and keep projects moving forward efficiently.

Moment 10: AURA | Project Management Timeline Optimization

Challenge:

Project delays can quickly create a ripple effect across the schedule, making it difficult for project leaders to recover time while protecting critical milestone dates.

Solution:

AURA Project Management analyzes the schedule, identifies late tasks, and suggests adjustments such as extending deadlines, parallelizing work, or reassigning resources. It can then update the timeline based on the selected adjustments while ensuring key milestone dates are still met.

Benefit:

AURA Project Management helps project managers quickly respond to delays, optimize schedules, and make informed adjustments while keeping critical milestones on track.

 

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.

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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

 

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.

  • Help users identify, as early as possible, tasks that may not be completed on time, so they can prioritize and mitigate risk

  • Understand root causes & impact of task delays

  • Recommend actions for short-term risk mitigation and long term improvement plan

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

 

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.

  • Automatically extract and continuously update requirements specifications from complex technical documents, regulations.

  • Trace requirements to 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

 

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