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Accelerate time-to-market while improving manufacturability and quality throughout the engineering lifecycle.
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Accelerate building connected & software-defined products
Optimize product lifecycle intelligence
Achieve faster time to insight: shorter cycles across design reviews, engineering changes, and validation mean fewer delays and fewer costly late-stage surprises.
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Stay connected and productive across design and review cycles
Build and deploy intelligent agents across your engineering workflows
Run physics-based simulations to validate designs before production
Manage product lifecycle data in a connected, cloud-based environment
Scale high-performance engineering simulations in the cloud
Connect CAD, simulation, and manufacturing data in one digital thread
Model and monitor physical assets with real-time digital replica
Catch issues before they compound: manufacturability gaps, quality risks, and supply constraints are identified earlier in the design process, when they're easier to fix.
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Launch with confidence: products reach production with design intent intact and field performance validated, reducing post-launch rework and warranty exposure.
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Simulate and validate the full product lifecycle in a 3D virtual environment
Unify operational and engineering data across your entire value chain
Accelerate software development with AI-assisted code and reviews
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Protect commitments when disruption hits: risk scenarios are modelled before they escalate, and responses are automated, so customer promises stay intact and margin leakage is contained.
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Sense disruption early and rebalance demand, supply, and inventory plans
Optimize inventory, production, and fulfillment with AI-assisted planning
Automate workflows, trigger approvals, and keep cross-functional teams coordinated
Keep operations in sync, even when conditions shift: inventory, production, and logistics rebalance automatically as signals change, so service levels hold without sacrificing margin.
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Turn demand and supply signals into real-time decisions with an AI-powered platform
Optimize inventory, production, and fulfillment with AI-assisted planning
Stay ahead of what's coming: demand shifts, supply constraints, and fulfillment risks are flagged before they lead to missed commitments, giving planners time to act rather than react.
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Resilient & anticipatory supply execution
Adaptive production & inventory operations
Mitigate risk in supply chains with scenario simulations
Protect customer commitments and margin by moving from reactive supply chain management to proactive, reliable execution.
Reduce supply chain disruption
Track shipments across every mode and flag exceptions
Orchestrate labor, automation, and fulfillment in real time across your warehouse
Surface supply chain performance and risk signals in real-time dashboards
Unify operational and engineering data across your entire value chain
Connect finance, operations, and customer data to confidently handle supply disruptions
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Bridging the gap between AI potential and production-floor reality
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Factory operations
Connect your ERP, WMS, and TMS into a single view
Equip frontline workers with AI-powered tools, shift coordination, and secure communication
Keep workers informed, skilled, and connected
Capture asset data, process it at the edge, and send it to the cloud
Build a factory floor that adapts: labor, assets, quality, and energy systems continuously self-optimize, so resilience is built in rather than bolted on after disruption hits.
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Detect early signs of machine failure across assets and sites
Automate workflows, trigger approvals, and keep cross-functional teams coordinated
Make better production calls, faster: scheduling, line performance, and recovery decisions are grounded in live operational context, reducing the lag between a signal and a response.
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Keep lines running and assets performing: maintenance, production flow, and exceptions are coordinated in real time, so unplanned downtime and throughput losses are caught before they compound.
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Improve worker productivity & guidance with AI
Ensure quality & compliance
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Improve throughput, reliability, and resilience across labor, assets, quality, and energy systems.
Optimize factory performance
Gain actionable insights into operational, engineering, and asset data
Capture asset data, process it at the edge, and send it to the cloud
Unify operational and engineering data across your entire value chain
Build and deploy intelligent agents across your engineering workflows
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Factory Service & Maintenance
Connect field signals, service history, and case data
Build and deploy intelligent agents across your engineering workflows
Stop failures before they stop production: field signals, service history, and operational data connect to flag recurring issues early, so parts are pre-staged and maintenance runs on your schedule, not the machine's.
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Solve it on the first visit, not the third: technicians arrive equipped with AI-assisted diagnostics and real-time access to experts, so complex cases are closed without repeat call-outs.
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Keep frontline workers informed and coordinated across shifts, locations, and production lines
Schedule the right technician to the right job and manage every work order
Resolve cases faster with AI agents that handle routing, diagnosis, and follow-up automatically
Cut repair time and keep lines moving: work orders are managed automatically, and technicians get step-by-step guidance on the spot, so issues get resolved faster and average repair time drops.
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From reactive maintenance to predictive prevention
First-time fix, every time
Faster resolution from first contact
Protect throughput by giving service and maintenance teams the AI tools to resolve issues, reduce downtime, and connect knowledge across the line.
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Govern, protect, and manage sensitive operational and AI data
Control who can access your AI workloads, production systems, and operational data
Protect industrial controllers, sensors, and connected devices with agentless threat detection
Protect AI workloads and operational technology across every part of your operation, including data, production systems, and identity.
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Secure AI workloads end-to-end
Detect and respond to threats across your OT environment
Gain full visibility across your IT, OT, and IoT assets
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