Digital Twins in NVIDIA Omniverse; Digitalizing Automotive Industry

Recently, German automaker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, popularly known as BMW, reported the global rollout of NVIDIA Omniverse for its factory’s ‘digital twin,’ a first. NVIDIA Omniverse, integrated with AI, will offer digitalization services to the automotive industry. The “digital twin” is Debrecen, Hungary-based 400-hectare future plant of the automotive manufacturer. Following its launch in 2025, the plant will produce about 150,000 units per year at full capacity. The initiative seems to be an effort to bring real-life use cases of the metaverse.

The automotive industry seeks digitalization for multiple reasons – accelerated computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the industrial metaverse. Almost every phase in manufacturing could receive a fillip from digitalizing operations, including concept, style, design, software, autonomous driving, and much more. The prominent software company, NVIDIA, is using its platform to offer services for these operations.

Digitalization is becoming crucial in bolstering companies across industries, with several sectors considering digitalization. Member of the Board of Management BMW AG Production, Dr. Mila Nedeljkovic stated that more than $3 trillion will be used for digitalization in three years. Though many players are looking to set benchmarks to offer digitalization services, NVIDIA is pushing limits to lead in this race to achieve metaverse-industry integration at a distinct and scalable level.

Digital Twins Could Save Millions

Construction of a physical factory, especially an automobile manufacturing plant, is an intense and complex task at a high cost. A large variety of machines and equipment is required to be installed along with the institution of operating mechanisms, procedures, and training manpower, all of which cost a lot.

Though architects and engineers create thousands of plans and curate the best among them, still there’s always a small margin remaining. In addition, the possibility of tons of bugs also stays until the actual opening and operation of the plant. Eliminating these issues after opening a physical plant could cost a hefty amount to the company. However, “digital twins” of such factories in the NVIDIA Omniverse-like platform could give the companies an effective solution.

NVIDIA GTC Conference 2023

Leading GPU company is organizing its yearly GPU Technology Conference (GTC) from March 21 to 23, 2023. In the company-wide biggest event, NVIDIA clarified its stance towards making its technology more accessible, pushing its AI hardware, developing its ChatGPT-like generative AI-focused applications, etc. In the streak of multiple project revelations, the company launched CUDA Quantum.

According to Reuters, NVIDIA’s CUDA Quantum is a quantum algorithms-building platform. It will use C++ and python, popular computer coding languages, to create algorithms. The program is said to benefit from running the algorithm all over quantum and classical computers.

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