In recent years, AI in manufacturing has focused primarily on helping people find information faster. Today, manufacturers are looking for AI that goes beyond information retrieval and supports decision-making, automation, and complex engineering processes. With Symetri’s PLM (product lifecycle management) solution, Sovelia Core, that next phase has already arrived.
“This is a huge game changer. The market expects AI adoption to shift from simple AI-assisted tasks, like document search, toward guided decision-making and lifecycle automation. Sovelia Core is now delivering exactly that.” MIKKO VIERTOLA, CTO, SYMETRI
Engineering teams should spend their time developing better products, not managing repetitive tasks, checking product information, or navigating between systems.
As products become more complex, valuable engineering expertise is spent searching for information, validating data and coordinating workflows instead of driving innovation. That’s where Symetri’s Sovelia Core PLM solution comes in.
“Until now, AI has helped users find information. Now the AI Assistant helps users get work done. We have released Sovelia Core’s agentic AI into the PLM environment, and it reduces manual work while keeping users in control.”
TUOMAS LATOMÄKI, GLOBAL PRODUCT LEAD, SOVELIA CORE, SYMETRI
Instead of simply retrieving information, it can plan, reason and execute tasks across engineering workflows, from routine actions to complex multi-step processes.
The Assistant prepares every change, shows exactly what it will do and makes it happen once you approve.
As the Assistant works directly on trusted company-specific product data within Sovelia Core, it provides traceable responses based on real engineering information rather than generating assumptions when data is unavailable.
What used to be an afternoon of clicking becomes a few minutes. Every week, your team gets hours back for the work that really matters.
The Sovelia AI Assistant can reason, recommend and execute workflows, but engineers remain fully in control. Every action is visible, traceable and requires approval before changes are made, keeping a human in the loop at every step.
| TRADITIONAL AI | AGENTIC AI |
| An assistant | A teammate |
| You ask a question, and it provides information or guidance. | It can understand a goal, plan the steps needed to achieve it, and carry out tasks across multiple actions, always with human oversight. |
The real power of the Sovelia AI Assistant lies in its ability to execute entire processes, not just individual tasks. It can coordinate multiple steps, make use of product data and workflow context, and complete work that would traditionally require significant user involvement. Whether it is preparing a release package, reviewing documentation, cleaning up product structures or supporting company-specific processes, the Assistant helps turn complex workflows into automated outcomes.
| Impact analysis to ECR (Engineering Change Request) | Full master data checks |
| Ask what a change will affect. The Assistant traces the impact across every part, assembly and document, analyses everything it finds and turns the results into an engineering change order ready for review. From hours of investigation to one request. | The Assistant goes through your data against your own master data specifications and flags anything missing, inconsistent or duplicated. You get a clear list of findings to act on. |
When a change ripples through a product structure, the Assistant follows every connection and brings forward what matters most, from the big-picture impact to the small details that are easy to miss and expensive to get wrong. You can decide faster and with more confidence.
The Sovelia AI Assistant speaks your language and is built around your company. You can teach it your terminology, standards and processes, and it works like someone who has been on the team for years. It applies your naming conventions, checks drawings against your own design rules and follows your processes step by step.
General-purpose AI can be used with PLM data in several ways: copying information into a chat tool, connecting an AI tool to the PLM system, or building a company-wide AI platform. Each step adds more to solve, from security and access rights to governance and company-specific knowledge. The Sovelia AI Assistant is built to handle these: it runs inside Sovelia Core, follows each user’s permissions, can be taught your way of working and needs approval for every change.
The conversation around AI is often focused on what technology can do. The more important question is what engineers should no longer have to do. By combining trusted product data, lifecycle processes and intelligent automation, Sovelia Core enables AI to take on routine and repetitive work while people remain in control of decisions. That frees engineering teams to focus on innovation, quality and product development.
| Sovelia Core is an engineering-driven PLM solution that gives organizations a single source of truth for product data, connecting data, processes and systems from initial concept to production, maintenance and end-of-life. It combines industry-proven templates with the flexibility to configure what is unique to each organization. |
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