Today's factories often face a critical problem: product design, automation, and production systems operate in silos. This fragmentation leads to longer commissioning times, increased risk of errors, and limited flexibility. OMRON and Dassault Systèmes are breaking down these barriers by creating a seamless link between 3D design and simulation in the virtual world and robots, sensors, and production lines in the physical world.
The collaboration combines Dassault Systèmes' 3D UNIV+RSES with OMRON's Sysmac industrial automation platform, enabling manufacturers to design, simulate, validate, and deploy production systems in a continuous virtual environment. At the heart of the alliance is the Production Systems Virtual Twin, which allows companies to test a new production line, validate robot behavior, or optimize logistics flows before physically building anything.
Thanks to this IT/OT convergence, manufacturers benefit from a digital continuum before deployment and during operations. Production lines are designed, simulated, and validated in a virtual environment enriched with Virtual Companions. Performance, safety, maintenance, and other scenarios are tested to correct errors before actual deployment. Once the physical line is installed, real-time data from sensors, controllers, and robots is relayed to the virtual twin. This allows for comparison of actual and simulated behavior, fine-tuning, and the application of predictive maintenance to reduce costs and risks.
“Manufacturing is entering a new era. With OMRON, we are building living, AI-driven, self-improving, software-defined production systems where the virtual and physical worlds merge in a continuous learning cycle. Our industrial world models transform complexity into intelligence, making factories not just automated, but autonomous. This is how we are reinventing industrial systems: from reactive to predictive, from rigid to adaptive, defining the next frontier of manufacturing,” says Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes.
“Our alliance with Dassault Systèmes strengthens our ability to integrate the OT and IT worlds and offer customers a comprehensive solution, from simulation to fully implemented smart production,” says Motohiro Yamanishi, President of the Industrial Automation Company (IAB) division of OMRON Corporation.
The two companies will present their collaboration at Hannover Messe 2026 from April 20–24, in Hall 14, Stand H74, and demonstrate how virtual twin expertise and advanced automation can be combined to design, validate, and operate production systems more efficiently.
