Dassault Systèmes Virtual Companions AURA, LEO and MARIE

2026-07-23 · Publisher : Dassault Systèmes · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

Dassault Systèmes makes its Virtual Companions AURA (program management), LEO (complex engineering) and MARIE (science) available on 3DEXPERIENCE, with 19 competencies, and announces its "Virtual Twin Factories".

### What changes On 23 July 2026, Dassault Systèmes announces the availability of its **Virtual Companions** on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform: **AURA** for program management, **LEO** for complex engineering and **MARIE** for deep science. The vendor presents these agents as "workers" that co-engineer with human teams. ### Key facts - **19 competencies**, each a set of skills, that guide users, reveal insights and execute tasks across workflows spanning design, engineering, simulation, manufacturing and operations. - Knowledge models described as "mission-critical": program management, engineering and simulation, bioscience. - Announcement of **Virtual Twin Factories**, combining Virtual Companions, Generative Experiences and Virtual Twin as a Service. - Run on AI factories from **OUTSCALE**, Dassault Systèmes' cloud subsidiary deployed across three continents, to protect data and intellectual property. - CEO Pascal Daloz describes the companions as "workers on par with humans" (vendor wording). ### Why it matters For design offices and program leaders, this moves the February 2025 "3D UNIV+RSES" vision to agents usable inside the PLM tool. The sovereignty argument (OUTSCALE hosting) matters for European customers in defense, aerospace or healthcare. ### Takeaway PLM becomes agentic: after Siemens on the automation side, Dassault Systèmes puts agents at the heart of product engineering.

Tags : IA agentique, PLM, Dassault Systèmes, Jumeau numérique, Souveraineté