Siemens has unveiled Digital Twin Composer, enabling industrial metaverse adoption through scalable, AI-driven digital twin environments.
At CES 2026, Siemens introduced Digital Twin Composer, a new digital twin software solution designed to operationalise the industrial metaverse at enterprise scale. Developed as part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, the platform enables organisations across manufacturing, infrastructure and digital construction to combine industrial AI, advanced simulation and real-time operational data within a single, high-fidelity virtual environment. The result is faster, more informed decision-making across the full lifecycle of products, processes and facilities.
Digital Twin Composer allows industrial companies to merge 2D and 3D digital twin data with live physical information in a secure, managed and photorealistic environment. Built using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, the solution creates a continuously updated virtual representation of assets and operations. This unified environment supports real-time visualisation and interaction, enabling stakeholders to understand performance, test changes and validate decisions before physical execution.
Significant implications
For the digital construction sector, the implications are significant. Digital Twin Composer enables project teams to visualise and simulate factories, logistics hubs and complex facilities in their real-world context, long before construction or retrofit begins. Whether developing a new AI factory on a greenfield site, upgrading a brownfield manufacturing plant or planning advanced automation, organisations can evaluate outcomes virtually, reducing risk and uncertainty.
The platform supports the creation and maintenance of global industrial metaverse environments containing comprehensive product and production data, both virtual and physical. These environments persist throughout the lifecycle of a facility or asset, providing a single source of truth that connects design, engineering, construction and operations. By contextualising real-time data within a physically accurate 3D digital twin, Digital Twin Composer delivers insights that are immediately actionable.
Siemens and PepsiCo
A practical example of this approach can be seen in the collaboration between Siemens and PepsiCo. The companies are digitally transforming selected US manufacturing and warehouse facilities by converting them into high-fidelity 3D digital twins. These models simulate plant operations and end-to-end supply chain flows, establishing a performance baseline within weeks. Teams were able to optimise and validate new configurations rapidly, increasing capacity and throughput while gaining a unified, real-time view of operations.
By leveraging Digital Twin Composer, NVIDIA Omniverse and computer vision, PepsiCo recreated every machine, conveyor, pallet route and operator path with physics-level accuracy. This enabled AI agents to simulate, test and refine system changes virtually, identifying up to 90 per cent of potential issues before physical modifications were made. Early deployments have already delivered a 20 per cent increase in throughput, nearly complete design validation and capital expenditure reductions of 10 to 15 per cent through improved investment decisions.
Core challenge
A core challenge across industrial and digital construction projects remains organisational silos. Design, engineering and production teams often work independently, relying on disconnected tools and data systems. Digital Twin Composer addresses this by unifying design, simulation and operations into a single, living model. Engineers can test products and facilities in minutes, validate automation strategies before hardware exists and operate real-world assets through the same digital twin used during design.
Joe Bohman, executive vice president of PLM Products at Siemens Digital Industries Software, said: “The new Digital Twin Composer delivers on our vision for the industrial metaverse. It helps manufacturers to overcome the unprecedented challenges of mastering complexity, accelerating production, reducing costs and increasing profitability.” He added that Siemens and NVIDIA are partnering “to help manufacturers bring the most complex products, processes and factories online faster, boost resiliency and sustainability, and continuously optimise performance.”
Digital thread
Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, highlighted the importance of a connected digital thread. “In an era where every physical object and process will have a digital twin, Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer establishes a digital thread that connects the silos of design, engineering, and operations across the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem,” he said. By integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, enterprises can validate entire lifecycles virtually before committing resources physically.
Digital Twin Composer connects photorealistic, physically accurate 3D digital twins created with Siemens Xcelerator to real-world data sources, including MES, QMS, PLC code and industrial IoT systems. Further intelligence can be unlocked through integration with Siemens’ data science and AI software, such as RapidMiner, enabling real-time insights and confident decision-making.
As early access expands, Digital Twin Composer signals a decisive shift toward scalable industrial metaverse adoption, redefining how digital construction, manufacturing and operations collaborate, simulate and deliver complex projects with confidence.
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