Abstract: System and method enable development of an industrial metaverse used in engineering by computer aided design. A metaverse pipeline includes a plurality of metaverse entities including at least one design application and one simulation application configured to develop a virtual environment metaverse representation of an industrial facility. A metaverse knowledge graph describes semantics and relationships between the metaverse pipeline entities and is configured to exchange information across the software applications of the metaverse pipeline entities of various platforms while developing the virtual environment metaverse. The metaverse knowledge graph enables synchronization across metaverse development platforms, such that updates to one platform are transferrable, whereby the virtual entities and environment can be assimilated according to new edits.