VOLTA product update | Data-governed collaborative MDO, future apps ecosystem and the journey to AI implementation

Today, the simulation knowledge still lives with engineers, not with the data. Domain expertise, methodologies, and analytical insights remain locked in individual workflows and data silos - invisible to the broader organization and lost when engineers move on. This fragmentation prevents the reuse of existing simulations and analyses, slowing down the product development process and forcing teams to repeatedly solve problems with the traditional trial-and-error approach.

The present and future of the VOLTA digital engineering platform center around a single ambition: transforming simulation knowledge into an organizational asset and the bedrock of AI adoption in engineering. By embedding context directly into simulation data, automating CAD/CAE and business process workflows around it, VOLTA empowers teams to collaborate in simulation and reduce product time-to-to-market. This evolution is guided by three key technological drivers:

• Data-governed collaborative MDO. VOLTA introduces an empowered data governance framework that ensures team collaboration, their IP protection and version control of their simulation executions.
• Apps ecosystem. VOLTA will provide you with independent apps to extend the platform core capabilities and address your specific needs, such as workflow automation, data management, analytics, integration with external tools, or domain-specific engineering tasks.
• AI implementation. The next frontier of digital engineering is intelligent automation. VOLTA is laying the foundations for AI-assisted simulation - from retrieving AI/ML models for fast design prediction, to Copilot AI assistant for more intuitive experience and Agentic for AI integration with LLMs.