Digitalizing of Body-in-White Development with Synera's AI Agentic Platform
Tillman Steininger at the Automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2026 on deploying agents for engineering analysis.
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A lot of engineering teams are weighing up where agentic AI actually fits into their daily workflows right now, and the pressure to compress development time is real, particularly in automotive. This session, recorded at the Automotive CAE Grand Challenge 2026, walks through how Synera's agentic framework connects to CAD, PLM, and simulation tools and makes them accessible through a conversational interface. Tillman Steininger presents the platform architecture, explains how rule-based workflows give agents precise, reproducible outputs rather than LLM guesswork, and runs through a live example built together with an OEM: a manufacturing analysis agent that takes a component, runs geometry checks, simulation, costing, and CO2 analysis, and returns a complete report — all from a single prompt.
Key takeaways
- How the Synera agentic framework layers on top of existing automation and connects to 80+ CAx and PLM tools including Ansys, HyperMesh, optiStruct, LS-DYNA, CATIA, Siemens NX, and others
- Why rule-based workflows underneath the AI layer eliminate hallucination risk on engineering-critical tasks like simulation and costing
- How reduced order models can be plugged into an agent framework to give engineers fast simulation access without requiring them to run the tools themselves
- How a team of agents built with an OEM runs geometry analysis, manufacturing checks, costing, and CO2 footprint reporting from a drag-and-drop CAD upload and a single chat prompt
- How to publish a team of agents company-wide once built, including user group access controls
Who this recording is for
- CAE and simulation engineers evaluating how agentic AI can reduce manual pre- and post-processing overhead in their daily workflows
- Manufacturing and design engineers at automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers looking to run manufacturability, costing, and CO2 checks earlier in the development process
- Engineering managers and digital transformation leads assessing how to make simulation and analysis tools accessible to a broader team without adding headcount
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