At the NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, D.C., Siemens and NVIDIA demonstrated a new technology stack currently in development for the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
This demo showed how engineers will soon be able to rapidly design, optimize and manage advanced and accurate digital twins for future factories. Utilizing the integration between Siemens Xcelerator and NVIDIA Omniverse, this technology will support a new digital twin offering that will bring together 3D visualization, simulation, and factory data into one unified, immersive environment.
This advanced digital twin software, still in development, is expected to be one part of a new Siemens tech stack, purpose built for the AI-era. It will empower manufacturers not only to build but also to continuously optimize the world’s most advanced factories.
This technology can be utilized to accelerate planning, engineering and operations, enabling large-scale simulation, AI-driven workflows and data-driven decisions throughout every stage of design and operation.
At GTC, Siemens showcased how this new tech stack could support customers from the design phase all the way through to the operations of their advanced factories. A key function of this new technology is how customers can bring together their building infrastructure and their production lines in one engineering environment.
This includes using AI to simulate hundreds of potential factory layouts to find the most efficient design. Using this new tech stack, engineers will be able to do this design and simulation in hours, not days or weeks. Then after this process, customers can render photorealistic and physics-based models of their factories.
This joint effort combines Siemens’ deep expertise in manufacturing and industrial technology with NVIDIA’s leading technology in graphical processing to help customers design smarter, more efficient factories, products and AI data centers.
Peter Koerte, Member of the Managing Board, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens, said, "Industrial innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Together Siemens and NVIDIA are leading the way. By combining our strengths in industrial AI, digital twins, automation and building technologies, we are enabling the industrial metaverse—and with it the next generation of factories and AI data centers – delivering the efficiency, power, scalability and intelligence needed to meet growing global demand and shape the future of industry."
Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, said, "Digital twins have become essential in the age of industrial AI, enabling the simulation and optimization of entire production lines and training robotics virtually before a single piece of hardware is installed. Our collaboration with Siemens brings NVIDIA Omniverse to the heart of manufacturing, providing the critical platform capabilities to accelerate the entire factory lifecycle, from concept to operation."
