Christa Prokos
See how Fusion Manage is evolving with an agentic PLM experience designed to make product lifecycle management more intuitive, adaptive, connected, and intelligent.
At Autodesk University 2026, we shared a first look at what is coming next for product lifecycle management in the Fusion industry cloud. Fusion Manage is evolving with a new agentic PLM experience designed to make PLM more intuitive, adaptive, connected, and intelligent.
This is not a new PLM product or a new software category. It is the next evolution of Fusion Manage, bringing proven PLM capabilities into an AI-driven canvas experience that is easier to adopt, faster to prove value, and designed to help teams manage growing product complexity, without the rigid processes, administrative burden, and overhead often associated with traditional PLM.
Flipping the traditional PLM model
Traditional PLM has largely worked one way. The organization adapts to the system. Teams define processes upfront. Administrators configure workflows. Specialists learn how the system works. Everyone else is expected to follow the process that has been built for them. This can create significant overhead before teams begin seeing value.
With the agentic PLM experience coming to Fusion Manage, the goal is to flip that model. The agentic PLM experience will bring lifecycle control into an AI-driven canvas that connects product context, people, decisions, and next actions in one place, while joining the tools teams already use, including email, chat, and enterprise systems.
“I love it. Everything’s right there in front of you in the same place.”
-Stacey Lewis, Owner and Operations Manager, Lewis Fine Furniture and Design LLC
Instead of making lifecycle management feel like extra work, Fusion Manage meets them in their existing flow of work, guides execution, and turns PLM from an adoption drag into a competitive advantage. The teams gain the control and traceability they need without forcing the organization to revolve around the system.
Unlike rigid PLM systems that lock teams into processes defined upfront, Fusion Manage with its agentic experience is designed to adapt as teams grow and their needs evolve, continuously improving workflows to better fit the way each organization works.
The agentic PLM experience is being built around four key ideas
- Intuitive. Make PLM collaboration intuitive, visual, and familiar, helping teams use product data to spot issues, explore options, and solve problems as work happens, rather than simply capturing information after decisions have been made.
- Adaptive. Agentic, adaptive workflows will cut upfront configuration, accelerate value, and help teams move faster than traditional PLM allows.
- Connected. Connect PLM with the systems, tools, and workflows teams rely on every day, bringing relevant data and insights into the PLM experience so teams can make better decisions with less searching and switching.
- Intelligent. Agentic AI reasons over product and workflow context to predict impact, coordinate work, and drive the next action, not simply answer questions.
“It’s amazing. This looks like really well-tailored AI to help me take an email and then track the impact through all of my projects.”
– Martin Crawford, VP Operations, DeaiLED Solutions
Built for trust and control
Trust is central to how we are building the agentic PLM experience. AI is intended to support people, not replace accountability or the governed PLM foundation underneath. Product data, business rules, and change history remain managed in Fusion Manage, while agentic capabilities work within defined permissions, traceable workflows, and human approval where appropriate.
Moving product development forward
When released, the new Fusion Manage experience will be designed to help teams spend less time searching for information, navigating systems, and coordinating work manually. Instead, they can focus on understanding what matters, making informed decisions faster and moving product development forward.
That is the direction we shared at AU 2026: flip the traditional PLM model so the system adapts to the way teams work, not the other way around.
For some of the Autodesk customers who previewed the experience, the reaction was clear. They want to start using it.
“It is one of its kind; I never saw this sort of tool in my career.”
– Yashwanth Vudathu, Mechanical Engineer at Perceptyne Technologies
Learn more
Connect with an expert to learn more about the agentic PLM coming soon to Fusion Manage.
DISCLAIMER: The capabilities described here are forward-looking and currently in development. Features, functionality, and timing are subject to change. These statements are not intended to be a promise or guarantee of future delivery of products, services, or features but merely reflect our current plans, which may change. Purchasing decisions should not be made based on reliance on these statements.