PepsiCo has announced a multi-year collaboration with Siemens and NVIDIA to develop digital twin technology and AI capabilities for its plant and supply chain operations.

The partnership aims to optimise facility layouts and streamline operations through physics-based digital twins and AI agents. According to sources, PepsiCo is shifting towards a digital-first planning strategy, leveraging digital twins and AI to simulate and validate facility layouts before any physical build.

PepsiCo has already begun implementing this approach in the US, using Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer and NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to simulate upgrades to its facilities. The company claims that this approach has delivered a 20 percent increase in throughput on initial deployment and is driving faster design cycles, nearly 100 percent design validation, and 10-15 percent reductions in capital expenditure.

Industry experts note that digital twins are becoming increasingly essential for companies with real-world assets, enabling them to simulate, test, and refine system changes before any physical modifications occur. Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer builds Industrial Metaverse environments at scale, empowering organisations to apply industrial AI, simulation, and real-time physical data to make decisions virtually.

“PepsiCo is leveraging digital twin technology and AI capabilities to retool and optimise its existing physical footprint,” said a spokesperson for the company. “This approach will enable us to better meet growing consumer needs while driving innovation.”