Using the digital twin to validate investment and commissioning costs and increase productivity and energy efficiency

Accelerating factory simulation via strategic partnerships

Inoprod, a Siemens Digital Industries Software partner, is a French engineering consultancy company specializing in industrial performance, simulation and digital transformation. From the beginning, the company aimed to make industrial small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) more competitive. This goal continues as it supports SMBs and large manufacturers by delivering tailored solutions for process optimization, virtual commissioning and Industry 4.0 to enhance productivity, reduce risk and accelerate innovation.

To accomplish this, Inoprod leverages Siemens solutions, including the Mendix™ platform and the Tecnomatix® portfolio, which are part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform of software, hardware and services.

Partnering with Siemens for digital transformation support

As an official reseller of Siemens software solutions and with over 580 projects carried out successfully with more than 140 clients, Inoprod supports SMBs in adopting Siemens’ digital twin technologies. Recognizing that SMBs often lack the internal resources to deploy simulation solutions, Inoprod offers bundled licenses for Plant Simulation in the Tecnomatix portfolio and the Optimize my plant application, coupled with hands-on guidance, training and deployment support. The company’s deep technical knowledge and customer-centric onboarding model helps smaller firms unlock the power of simulation with low friction and measurable return-on-investment (ROI).

Inoprod delivers simulation as a service to clients by combining its development expertise in Plant Simulation with the Optimize my plant cloud platform, which leverages Mendix low code. Using this model, Inoprod not only sells software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions but also configures models, develops customized scenarios and manages the operational lifecycle of the digital twin on the client’s behalf. This allows customers to benefit from optimization insights without internal simulation expertise.

“Manufacturing companies today must have the agility to respond to multiple constraints,” says Pascal Dubuis, chief executive officer (CEO) at Inoprod. “Reliable decision-making tools are essential and that’s exactly how Plant Simulation and Optimize my plant empower our customers to succeed.

“Our priority is helping customers leveraging our expertise and Siemens solutions.”

Pascal Dubuis, CEO, Inoprod

Providing engineering services

As a long-standing engineering consulting partner, Inoprod uses the Optimize my plant application internally during industrial projects to enhance productivity and decision making. Whether supporting process design, layout optimization or flow analysis, the Optimize my plant application serves as a cloud-based simulation tool that accelerates client alignment and provides a collaborative environment.

By integrating Plant Simulation and digital twin technologies, Inoprod can deliver tangible, real-time value to customers. Additionally, by creating a living model of production flows, resource allocation and process constraints, customers can anticipate bottlenecks before they occur and validate what-if scenarios; reduce commissioning time and cost by identifying design flaws early and optimize line balancing and staffing levels without disrupting ongoing operations. Customers can also evaluate investment options and derisk large industrial projects and support sustainability goals by measuring and improving energy efficiency.

From an engineering perspective, Inoprod customers can solve complex challenges such as throughput optimization, process reliability, ergonomics, equipment utilization and system scalability. Customers benefit not only from better technical accuracy but also from faster, more confident decision making that scales across teams and projects.

Achieving ambitious digital transformation

An example of how the company has established itself as a trusted strategic partner and helped clients with their digital transformation, Inoprod supported Michelin, a mobility and materials science expert, in their ambitious digital twin transformation. Inoprod’s involvement spanned two core components: delivering advanced Plant Simulation modeling services and codeveloping Mendix adaptive solutions.

These low-code apps enable broader accessibility to simulation insights, allowing Michelin to decentralize scenario testing and support data-driven decision making across multiple production sites. Inoprod played a central role in bridging simulation complexity with business usability leveraging their unique dual expertise in engineering and digital development. With Inoprod and Siemens solutions, Michelin reduced the time necessary to transfer a production plan into a schedule from days to the click of a button and demonstrated the value of dynamic manufacturing simulation for all areas of its industrial production.

“Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with Inoprod, we carried out a project in a few days with a small amount of study in relation to the investments,” says Gérard Munier, head of the modernization program at the Michelin Group head office. “We developed solutions to reduce the lineup, which primarily concern the human organization and not the investment.”

Additional description - Inoprod - Supporting multiple industries with Optimize my plant

Inoprod leverages the Optimize my plant application to help manufacturers across diverse sectors make smarter, faster operational decisions. Leveraging simulation-based insights and digital twin validation, they have successfully supported a wide range of use cases.

This includes validating production planning for a leading cheese manufacturer, improving their throughput and resource alignment, and increasing the production capacity for an aerospace and defense supplier, ensuring delivery reliability and optimized utilization. Additionally, Inoprod helped an aircraft engine manufacturer validate strategic ramp-up scenarios, reduce risk and accelerate time-to-production, and a cereal producer enhance investment decisions, optimizing planned expansion costs by up to 80 percent.

By combining deep industry knowledge with Siemens’ digital twin technology, Inoprod empowers each customer to make data-driven, scalable and sustainable improvements across their operations.