Dassault Systèmes today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to establish the ASEAN Industrial AI Virtual Twin Lab in Singapore. The lab is planned to serve as Dassault Systèmes’ regional hub for developing, validating and deploying industrial AI and virtual twin solutions across ASEAN.
The MOU was signed in Singapore by Tan Pei Fen, Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific South, Dassault Systèmes, and Xu Kaixian, Vice President and Head, Industrial Solutions, Singapore Economic Development Board. Pierre Barnabé, Chief Operating Officer, Dassault Systèmes, and Png Cheong Boon, Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board, witnessed the signing.
The ASEAN Industrial AI Virtual Twin Lab, within its first five years, plans to employ more than 30 highly skilled AI professionals, with expertise spanning AI engineering, virtual twin development, software systems design and industry consulting. Drawing on Singapore’s digital infrastructure and skilled workforce, the initiative aims to strengthen local industrial AI capabilities and create high-value jobs.
Virtual twins combine digital models, data and simulation to help businesses understand how products, business processes or operations will perform, and test changes virtually before implementing them in the real world.
Combining AI, engineering knowledge, and simulation on Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the lab helps ASEAN businesses design AI data centres and optimise their energy efficiency in operations. It will also deliver reusable tools for enterprises to speed up deployment and accelerate adoption of 3D UNIV+RSES — Dassault Systèmes’ next generation of virtual twins that combine physics-backed AI with modeling, real-time simulation and data science.
The ASEAN Industrial AI Virtual Twin Lab plans to employ more than 30 highly skilled AI professionals within its first five years, strengthening Singapore’s industrial AI capabilities and creating high-value employment opportunities.
