(Alliance News) - Stellantis NV announced on Monday a strategic partnership with Accenture to accelerate the deployment of AI-enabled digital twin capabilities across its global manufacturing network, leveraging Nvidia technologies.
The initiative aims to develop next-generation virtual manufacturing environments powered by real-time data and AI, combining the automotive group's industrial expertise with Accenture's digital manufacturing proficiency and Nvidia's accelerated computing and Omniverse technologies.
'We are building the foundation for the next generation of manufacturing at Stellantis', stated Francesco Ciancia, the group's Head of Manufacturing. 'By combining digital twins, AI, and advanced simulation, we are rethinking how we design, manage, and continuously improve our production systems'.
Ciancia added that the initiative is designed to 'strengthen the capacity' of teams to 'anticipate issues, make faster decisions, and foster continuous improvement'.
According to Tracey Countryman, Supply Chain and Engineering Global Lead at Accenture, 'In the manufacturing sector, the real opportunity today is scaling AI within complex industrial processes, transforming it into a driver of concrete and measurable business value'.
The executive emphasized that Stellantis 'is ideally positioned to accelerate manufacturing transformation and lead the industry into a new era of intelligent, high-performance operations'.
The project - the group explains - represents a further step in Stellantis' strategy toward more flexible, efficient, and resilient production systems.
The group will utilize high-fidelity virtual replicas of its plants to optimize operations in real-time via AI-generated analytics, accelerate industrialization processes by validating solutions prior to physical implementation, and enhance quality through predictive monitoring systems.
Initial implementations will be launched at selected plants with pilot projects in North America scheduled for 2026, with the goal of assessing their impact in terms of value creation and scalability across the entire global industrial network.
The companies also intend to explore 'closed-loop' optimization systems, where virtual and physical plants can mutually improve through agentic orchestration, physics-informed learning models, and advanced maintenance and quality control tools.
Stellantis shares are down 0.6% at EUR6.431 per share.
By Antonio Di Giorgio, Alliance News reporter
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