Stellantis and Accenture Plan Strategic Partnership for AI-Driven Manufacturing with NVIDIA
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Stellantis announced plans for a strategic initiative with Accenture to advance the use of AI-enabled digital twin capabilities using NVIDIA technologies across its global manufacturing footprint. This move reinforces Stellantis’ commitment to transforming its industrial operations through data-driven technologies.
This project brings together Stellantis’ industrial expertise, Accenture’s physical AI and digital manufacturing capabilities, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and Omniverse libraries to explore the development of next-generation virtual manufacturing environments powered by real-time data and artificial intelligence. Contd
“We are laying the foundation for the next generation of manufacturing at Stellantis,” said Francesco Ciancia, Head of Manufacturing at Stellantis. “By combining digital twins, AI and advanced simulation, we are rethinking how we design, operate and continuously improve our production systems. This initiative is designed to work hand in hand with our teams, enhancing their ability to anticipate issues, enabling faster decisions and continuous improvement. Together with Accenture and NVIDIA, we are exploring new ways to drive more scalable and intelligent operations.”
“The opportunity in manufacturing today is to scale AI across complex industrial operations in ways that deliver measurable business value,” said Tracey Countryman, Supply Chain and Engineering Global Lead at Accenture. “By partnering with Accenture and harnessing NVIDIA’s compute and simulation technologies, Stellantis is positioned to accelerate manufacturing reinvention and lead the industry into a new era of intelligent, high-performance operations.”
Accelerating the Shift to Intelligent Manufacturing
This initiative marks a significant step in Stellantis’ ambition to build more adaptive, efficient and resilient production systems, leveraging digital twins as a core enabler of transformation.
Stellantis is using high-fidelity virtual plant replicas to optimize operations in real time through AI-driven insights, accelerate industrialisation by validating processes before physical deployment, enhance quality through predictive monitoring and reduce risk across manufacturing operations.
Initial deployments are planned in selected plants, providing a foundation to assess value creation and scalability across the broader industrial network, starting with pilots in North America in 2026.
Combining Industry Expertise and Advanced Technology
The collaboration brings together complementary strengths across manufacturing, AI and high‑performance computing; combining Stellantis’ industrial scale and automotive expertise, Accenture’s leadership in AI and digital transformation and NVIDIA’s advanced simulation, physical AI and accelerated computing technologies.
Together, the companies aim to explore how AI-integrated digital twins can enable closed-loop optimisation, where virtual and physical manufacturing systems continuously inform and improve each other. This is supported by agentic orchestration for dynamic throughput optimisation, as well as physics-informed quality and maintenance.
A Foundation for Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Manufacturing
By integrating digital twin technologies with AI, Stellantis is advancing a new manufacturing operating model, one that is more predictive and autonomous, powered by real-time data and simulation. It is designed to scale knowledge seamlessly across global plants.
This approach supports Stellantis’ broader vision of software-defined manufacturing, enabling faster innovation cycles, improved flexibility and sustained competitive advantage.
Stellantis will continue to assess and evolve this initiative in collaboration with Accenture and NVIDIA as part of its long-term strategy to modernise manufacturing operations and deliver step-change improvements in performance, quality, and efficiency across its global footprint.
