Teams can evaluate and validate more design options earlier, reducing rework and improving confidence before committing to physical prototypes.
How it works
The team first explores many options quickly in the virtual environment, then invests detailed engineering effort only in the small set of designs that appear worth validating more thoroughly.
Application here
Physical test data is compared against digital predictions to calibrate the model and improve confidence in simulation-driven development.
Business impact
This systematically improves model accuracy and builds a stronger basis for simulation-driven decisions in later stages.
Limitations
Calibration quality depends on good test coverage. Differences between predicted and real behavior still require expert interpretation and cannot be resolved automatically.
In production
This is already useful for shortening the path from concept to validated design and reducing wasted effort on weak options.
Research
The frontier is toward twins that do more than evaluate designs: they help decide the smartest next validation step to cut time, cost, and uncertainty.
Examples
Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE Twin is used for virtual prototype validation: the model combines CAD + test results + simulation, enabling engineers to verify performance without repeated physical tests. Used by Tesla and Boeing (Dassault customer references) — .