At NVIDIA GTC, a global AI Developer Conference, BMW Group, the automaker announced its expansion with the NVIDIA Omniverse. As NVIDIA wrote in its blog, the automaker will use the virtual world to optimize layouts, robotics, and logistics systems years before production starts. As BMW’s EV plant operations will start after two years, its virtual factory operations are helping the automaker to ensure smooth operation and optimal efficiency.
What is NVIDIA Omniverse?
NVIDIA Omniverse is a computing platform that enables individuals and teams “to develop Universal Scene Description-based 3D workflows and applications.” Omniverse is also accelerating computing simulation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This will boost “the production and operate more efficiently by improving time to market, digitalization, and sustainability,” as NVIDIA mentioned in its blog.
BMW Group Joins NVIDIA Omniverse
NVIDIA’s progress with advanced technologies has attracted the automaker. Thus they announced on March 21 that with NVIDIA, they are expanding its use of the NVIDIA Omniverse platform. It will build and operate industrial metaverse applications across its production network worldwide. BMW also includes the planned electric vehicle plant in Debrecen, Hungary, that will only start operations in 2025.
The Omniverse platform allows the automaker team to collaborate across virtual factories from any location. With the new capabilities, BMW can validate and test completely in a virtual world. This will boost its time to production and also improve efficiency across all of its plants.
Moreover, the keynote demo highlighted the virtual planning session for BMW’s Debrecen EV plant. Along with the Omniverse, the automaker can aggregate data into massive, high-performance models and connect their domain-specific software tools. Also, it enables multi-user live collaboration across locations, from any location and device.
As BMW has a complex planning process for its factories and factory planners globally, it uses many software tools with limitations. But with Omniverse, the automaker can “bridge existing software and data repositories from leading industrial computer-aided design and engineering tools such as Siemens Process Simulate, Autodesk Revit, and Bentley Systems MicroStation,” as NVIDIA wrote in its blog.
NVIDIA further pointed out that with the unified view, BMW is “powering its internal teams and external partners to collaborate and share knowledge and data from existing factories to help in the planning of new ones.”
GTC Keynote Highlights
NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in his GTC keynote. They shared a demo in which he was joined by “BMW Group’s Milan Nedeljkovic, Member of the Board of Management, to officially open the automaker’s first entirely virtual factory, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse.”
During the GTC keynote, NVIDIA CEO said, “We are excited and incredibly proud of the progress the automaker has made with Omniverse. The partnership will continue to push the frontiers of virtual integration and virtual tooling for the next generation of smart-connected factories worldwide.”
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