BMW Group starts global rollout of Nvidia Omniverse for factory digital twins
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BMW Group has started the global rollout of its Nvidia Omniverse platform as it designs the digital version of a factory that will open for real in 2025.
The carmaker will bring the power of industrial AI to its entire production network as part of its digital transformation, the companies said during a keynote at the Nvidia GTC 2023 spring event.
In doing so, BMW Group is at the forefront of a key new manufacturing trend — going digital-first by using the virtual world to optimize layouts, robotics and logistics systems years before production really starts.
The automaker announced today with Nvidia at GTC that it’s expanding its use of the Nvidia Omniverse platform for building and operating industrial metaverse applications across its production network around the world, including the planned electric vehicle plant in Debrecen, Hungary, that will only start operations in 2025.
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“We’ve improved our relationship with BMW and the depth and breadth of their use of Omniverse across the factory they are actually going to be building in Debrecen,” said Richard Kerris, vice president of the Omniverse ecosystem at Nvidia, in an interview with VentureBeat. “It’s the first digital factory for their cars. So this means that people that work in the factory will actually be able to start working before it’s even done.”
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