Aras Joins Alliance for OpenUSD to Advance Interoperability and Lifecycle Integration for Digital Twins Leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse
Aras, a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and digital thread solutions for engineering AI, announced today its participation in the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). This move aims to accelerate the realization of digital twins with interoperability and lifecycle integration, leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse.
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Aras (Headquarters: Massachusetts, USA; CEO: Leon Lauritsen; Japan subsidiary: Aras Japan G.K., Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Japan President: Masahiko Hisatsugu), a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and digital thread solutions for engineering AI, today announced its participation in the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). AOUSD is an open, non-profit initiative that promotes the standardization and adoption of OpenUSD for interoperable 3D workflows across industries and new digital twin technologies such as NVIDIA Omniverse.
OpenUSD has become widely adopted as a foundational technology for building and exchanging complex 3D scenes and environments. Furthermore, it serves as the underlying foundation for modern industrial digital twin platforms, including NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and APIs, by leveraging OpenUSD, enable real-time collaboration, simulation, and even physical AI applications across engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
As digital twins evolve from pilot projects to operational systems, organizations are required to integrate high-fidelity 3D environments with managed lifecycle contexts that define actual products and processes, such as product configurations, requirements, effectiveness, change histories, and service data.
Without such integration, simulations and visualizations risk deviating from the real-world systems they are intended to represent. Aras's participation in AOUSD reflects its long-standing commitment to open ecosystems and demonstrates its focus on linking digital thread data managed by PLM with scalable OpenUSD-based 3D environments used in engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service.
Rob McAveney, CTO of Aras, stated:
"Open ecosystems scale innovation across customers, partners, and technology providers. Through its participation in the Alliance for OpenUSD, Aras helps ensure that immersive digital twin environments and real-time simulations are consistently integrated with the reality of products and processes managed throughout their lifecycle."
Enabling Lifecycle-Integrated Digital Twins for Omniverse
Through its participation in AOUSD, Aras plans to provide capabilities that enable organizations to leverage digital twins built on OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries in practical applications. Key aspects include:
Dynamically generating large-scale 3D visualizations for integrated datasets across digital twins, product configurations, and digital threads.
Achieving detailed traceability by directly linking 3D scenes to lifecycle data (e.g., geometry → configuration → change → validation evidence).
Supporting real-time digital twin views that reflect operational status updates and configuration changes as assets evolve through service.
Extending immersive 3D environments by utilizing product structures and related data from electronic devices and MBSE models.
Providing a scalable bridge between PLM-managed product data and real-time simulation environments.
Industry Collaboration
Aras has demonstrated the potential to extend digital thread and PLM business processes through immersive digital twin environments built using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, in collaboration with organizations such as CERN, SICK Sensor Intelligence, and Microsoft. These collaborations show that integrating digital thread data across engineering, operations, and service into real-time simulation environments can lead to more accurate digital twins and data-driven industrial operations.
Support Comment
Jan Jarvis, Senior Manager of Virtualization at SICK, stated:
"OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse elevate the virtual commissioning of industrial sensor solutions to a new level. Realistic simulations and sensi
OpenUSD has become widely adopted as a foundational technology for building and exchanging complex 3D scenes and environments. Furthermore, it serves as the underlying foundation for modern industrial digital twin platforms, including NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and APIs, by leveraging OpenUSD, enable real-time collaboration, simulation, and even physical AI applications across engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
As digital twins evolve from pilot projects to operational systems, organizations are required to integrate high-fidelity 3D environments with managed lifecycle contexts that define actual products and processes, such as product configurations, requirements, effectiveness, change histories, and service data.
Without such integration, simulations and visualizations risk deviating from the real-world systems they are intended to represent. Aras's participation in AOUSD reflects its long-standing commitment to open ecosystems and demonstrates its focus on linking digital thread data managed by PLM with scalable OpenUSD-based 3D environments used in engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service.
Rob McAveney, CTO of Aras, stated:
"Open ecosystems scale innovation across customers, partners, and technology providers. Through its participation in the Alliance for OpenUSD, Aras helps ensure that immersive digital twin environments and real-time simulations are consistently integrated with the reality of products and processes managed throughout their lifecycle."
Enabling Lifecycle-Integrated Digital Twins for Omniverse
Through its participation in AOUSD, Aras plans to provide capabilities that enable organizations to leverage digital twins built on OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries in practical applications. Key aspects include:
Dynamically generating large-scale 3D visualizations for integrated datasets across digital twins, product configurations, and digital threads.
Achieving detailed traceability by directly linking 3D scenes to lifecycle data (e.g., geometry → configuration → change → validation evidence).
Supporting real-time digital twin views that reflect operational status updates and configuration changes as assets evolve through service.
Extending immersive 3D environments by utilizing product structures and related data from electronic devices and MBSE models.
Providing a scalable bridge between PLM-managed product data and real-time simulation environments.
Industry Collaboration
Aras has demonstrated the potential to extend digital thread and PLM business processes through immersive digital twin environments built using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, in collaboration with organizations such as CERN, SICK Sensor Intelligence, and Microsoft. These collaborations show that integrating digital thread data across engineering, operations, and service into real-time simulation environments can lead to more accurate digital twins and data-driven industrial operations.
Support Comment
Jan Jarvis, Senior Manager of Virtualization at SICK, stated:
"OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse elevate the virtual commissioning of industrial sensor solutions to a new level. Realistic simulations and sensi