OPmobility advances digital continuity with Teamcenter X
OPmobility is strengthening digital continuity across its global R&D network while exploring how AI and digital twin technologies can help accelerate product development. Teamcenter X provides a digital thread backbone for product information and development processes as part of this broader transformation.
Automotive engineering is changing quickly. Increasing product complexity, shorter development cycles and new technologies are pushing manufacturers and suppliers to rethink how engineering teams collaborate and how product information moves across the lifecycle.
For OPmobility, that transformation is bringing together digital continuity, cloud PLM and new approaches to AI-enabled engineering.
In 2025, OPmobility selected Teamcenter X, the cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, as its standardized PLM solution across a global R&D network that includes 40 centers. The goal was to improve efficiency, scalability and collaboration while reducing project lead times.
Today, that journey is taking another step forward.
🌍 Building the digital thread for global engineering
OPmobility is deploying Teamcenter X across its worldwide R&D network as a digital thread backbone for product information and development processes.
As OPmobility develops increasingly complex products spanning intelligent exterior and lighting systems as well as battery, hydrogen and other energy solutions, maintaining continuity across product development becomes increasingly important.
By connecting teams, tools and data from initial design through engineering, simulation and manufacturing, OPmobility’s digital thread is intended to support greater collaboration and consistency as well as faster, better-informed decisions.
This builds on the company’s original Teamcenter X strategy of establishing a single, standardized PLM backbone that can help teams work more efficiently across its global R&D organization.
🧠 Exploring agentic AI for engineering
Alongside its work with Siemens on digital continuity, OPmobility is also exploring how agentic AI can transform complex engineering workflows.
At GTC Berlin, OPmobility worked with NVIDIA on an agentic computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow for automotive bumper development. Specialized AI agents coordinate activities including geometry and mesh preparation, structural and crash simulation, results analysis, compliance verification and report generation.
The approach isn’t about removing engineers from the process. OPmobility says engineers remain in control of key design choices, technical trade-offs and final validation, while AI handles complex, repetitive and time-consuming activities. The aim is to shorten development cycles, improve consistency and reduce potential errors, freeing engineers to spend more time on innovation, material development and customer collaboration.
It’s an example of how OPmobility is exploring AI alongside its broader digital transformation, while Teamcenter X provides the PLM backbone for product information and development processes across its R&D network.
🔗 Extending digital continuity with industrial digital twins
OPmobility’s vision also extends to industrial digital twins.
The company highlighted Siemens Digital Twin Composer, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, as a technology for bringing together detailed 3D representations and operational data. This can help visualize, test and optimize products, production processes and manufacturing environments before physical implementation.
OpenUSD provides a common framework for exchanging complex 3D information across tools used in design, simulation and validation.
Together, OPmobility describes these efforts around reliable product data, agentic engineering workflows and digital twins as complementary initiatives that lay the foundation for a more collaborative and AI-ready engineering environment.
🚗 Giving engineers more time to engineer
Technology is only part of the story.
As Sandrine Ledru, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer at OPmobility, explains, connecting data, tools and teams while entrusting complex and repetitive workflows to AI agents allows engineers to focus on decisions where their expertise creates greater value. OPmobility expects this combination to help it innovate faster, improve quality and better respond to customer needs.
That builds on the objectives OPmobility identified when it first selected Teamcenter X, including improving efficiency and performance across its worldwide R&D network and accelerating time to market.
⚡ Building the foundation for what comes next
OPmobility’s journey shows how product development is evolving beyond individual engineering tools.
Digital continuity can create a stronger foundation for product information and collaboration. AI agents can take on complex and repetitive engineering activities. Industrial digital twins can create new ways to visualize, test and optimize products and production environments.
With Teamcenter X being deployed as its digital thread backbone for product information and development processes, OPmobility is strengthening the PLM foundation supporting its broader transformation.
The result is a compelling look at the future of product development. Connected data and teams, supported by AI-enabled workflows and digital twins, with engineers focused on the decisions where their expertise matters most.
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