| AIQX |
BMW (OEM) |
ML factory-quality system (sensor/image). |
✅ Yes, sensor (factory, not design) |
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| Arena AI |
PTC (Platform Vendor) |
LLM assistant in Arena PLM at production release. |
No, document-bound |
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| Aura |
Dassault Systèmes (Platform Vendor) |
LLM copilot over requirements/documents, on a rented model. |
No, document-bound |
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| AutoConstrain |
Autodesk (Platform Vendor) |
ML model that adds CAD sketch constraints. |
No, sketch-corpus-taught |
Transformer ML trained on a corpus of constrained CAD sketches (constraints removed, then predicted): learns design intent, not measured outcomes. [Evidence] (Autodesk Research, 2024) |
| Bernd |
Bertrandt (Service Provider) |
LLM RFQ agent (Feb 2026). |
No, document-bound |
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| Cadmould AI Solver |
SIMCON (Platform Vendor) |
Neural filling solver: a transformer trained on 1M+ simulation trajectories; filling only, research preview. First claimed neural moulding solver. |
No, simulation-taught |
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| Cerebrus |
Cadence (Platform Vendor) |
Production AI for chip design; outside the 16 moulding stages. |
✅ Yes, chip design (not moulding) |
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| ChipStack |
Cadence (Platform Vendor) |
AI for chip design; outside the 16 moulding stages. |
✅ Yes, chip design (not moulding) |
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| Codebeamer Copilot |
PTC, co-built with VW (Platform Vendor / OEM) |
Requirements AI for vehicle software. |
No, document-bound |
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| Design Copilot |
Siemens (+Altair) (Platform Vendor) |
LLM design assistant inside NX. |
No, document-bound |
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| Discoveria |
Tata Technologies (Service Provider) |
LLM requirements AI. |
No, document-bound |
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| FMEA Agent |
Bertrandt (Service Provider) |
LLM FMEA agent (Apr 2026). |
No, document-bound |
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| Form Explorer |
Autodesk (Platform Vendor) |
ML styling/industrial-design generator (Autodesk Alias). |
No, design-corpus-taught |
Learns a firm's styling from its own historical 3D design corpus, not measured outcomes. [Evidence] (AEC Magazine, 26 Oct 2024) |
| Frustum |
PTC (Platform Vendor) |
Generative-design engine (acquired). |
No, optimization/DoE (not learned AI) |
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| iSLM Discovery |
Moldex3D (Platform Vendor) |
Retrieval/similarity search over historical mould projects. First shipping moulding retrieval knowledge base. |
No, retrieval (unsupervised) |
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| Leo |
Dassault Systèmes (Platform Vendor) |
LLM copilot/assistant paired with Aura. |
No, document-bound |
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| LTwin |
LTTS (Service Provider) |
ML PINN digital twin for assets, not moulding. |
No, simulation/physics-taught |
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| Mistral LIM (Large Industry Model) |
BMW, built on rented Mistral (OEM) |
ML trained on >1 PB of crash-simulation data. |
No, simulation-taught |
Also in the AI-models catalogue as LIM. |
| Moldflow Assistant (Tech Preview) |
Autodesk (Platform Vendor) |
LLM inside Moldflow 2027 that interprets results; it does not predict anything. First AI inside a mould-flow product from a generalist vendor. |
No, document-bound |
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| MoldiBot |
Moldex3D (Platform Vendor) |
LLM/RAG support chatbot over manuals. |
No, document-bound |
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| ODYSSEE |
Hexagon, sold to Cadence Feb 2026 (Platform Vendor) |
ML reduced-order surrogate (crash/structural). |
No, simulation-taught |
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| PhysicsAI |
Siemens (+Altair) (Platform Vendor) |
Trainable ML surrogate on simulation results; PhysicsAI-on-Mold is the first ML on mould-flow results this study found (Jun 2026, preview). |
No, simulation-taught |
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| PLxAI |
LTTS (Service Provider) |
AI platform listing Moldflow feasibility and part-search; aspiration and metadata-grade, no moulded part touched. |
No, document/metadata-bound |
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| Process Discovery |
Moldex3D (Platform Vendor) |
ML process-capability feature (thin, vendor-claimed). |
No, simulation/trial-taught |
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sensXPERT |
ZF, third-party vendor, ceased 31 Jul 2025 (Tier-1) |
ML in-mould cure prediction; the study's only deployed Tier-1 moulding-ML, now orphaned. |
Yes, in-process sensor (not design) |
Third-party product deployed by ZF, not ZF-branded. [Synthesis] |
| SimAI |
Ansys, now Synopsys (excluded Platform Vendor) |
ML CAE surrogate (Jan 2024); strong AI, but not in moulding. |
No, simulation-taught |
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| Simcenter neural ROM |
Siemens (+Altair) (Platform Vendor) |
Reduced-order-model surrogate trained on simulation archives (chassis, crash). |
No, simulation-taught |
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| Synera (load-floor surrogate) |
BMW, via the Synera platform (OEM) |
ML structural surrogate at concept design. |
No, simulation-taught |
Synera (formerly ELISE, Bremen, founded 2018) is a third-party low-code platform; BMW is a customer and investor via BMW i Ventures, not the owner. [Evidence] (3D ADEPT, 2022) |
| Varimos |
SIMCON (Platform Vendor) |
Virtual-DoE optimization product. |
No, optimization/DoE |
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| Varimos Real |
SIMCON (Platform Vendor) |
Fits a statistical model to measured machine trials, per mould; carries nothing between projects. |
✅ Yes, measured trials |
Learns from measured trials, but per-mould only. [Synthesis] |
| Visimatic |
Tata Technologies (Service Provider) |
ML computer vision at mass production. |
✅ Yes, vision/sensor (not design) |
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| XLM.AI |
HCLTech (Service Provider) |
LLM over part-requirement metadata. |
No, document-bound |
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| ZF Annotate |
ZF (Tier-1) |
ML ADAS data annotation. |
✅ Yes, data-labelling ML (ADAS, not moulding) |
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