Virtual Factory

Virtual Factory

Develop advanced, generative AI-enabled virtual factory solutions.

Workloads

Simulation / Modeling / Design

Industries

Manufacturing

Business Goal

Innovation

Products

NVIDIA ACE
NVIDIA cuOpt
NVIDIA Isaac Sim
NVIDIA Metropolis
NVIDIA Modulus
NVIDIA Omniverse

The Value of Virtual Factories

New possibilities—from planning to operations.

Virtual factories unlock new possibilities for the world’s heavy industries, allowing them to design, build, simulate, operate, and optimize their assets and processes—entirely virtually. These physics-based industrial digital twins bring many benefits to teams, including:

Improved communication and decisions: During facility design, construction, and commissioning, virtual factories streamline communication for project stakeholders, allow teams to visualize and make decisions in context, and ensure that decisions are informed by the most current data.

Simulation of ideal layouts: Teams can connect virtual factories to simulation tools to optimize facility designs for production and material flow, ergonomics, and safety.

Optimization of operations: Teams can integrate their virtual factories with real-time production data to identify, analyze, and resolve issues.

Training and testing autonomous systems: AI and robotics developers can develop and test the generative physical AI that powers autonomous systems deployed in physical factories.

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Get Started With NVIDIA Omniverse Developer Tools, SDKs, and APIs
Explore the Generative AI for Digital Twins Workflow Guide
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Review the Factory Digital Twin Reference Architecture

“Through the NVIDIA Omniverse API, Siemens empowers customers with generative AI to make their physics-based digital twins even more immersive. This will help everybody to design, build and test next-generation products, manufacturing processes and factories virtually before they are built in the physical world. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens digital twin technology is enabling companies around the world to become more competitive, resilient and sustainable.”

Roland Busch
President and CEO of Siemens AG

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Develop Virtual Factory Solutions With NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA AI, and OpenUSD

Based on OpenUSD, the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform provides developers with APIs, SDKs, and NVIDIA technologies to bring data interoperability, physically based visualization, generative AI, and real-time collaboration to software for designing, building, and operating virtual factory digital twins.

Unified Data Pipelines and Collaborative Workflows

By developing solutions on OpenUSD, developers unify complex data pipelines and bring new levels of collaboration to planning and operations teams, so they can interact with, review, and modify factory plans and operations, together, in real-time.

Physically Accurate Simulations

With NVIDIA RTX™ technology, NVIDIA Isaac™, and NVIDIA Modulus, developers take advantage of the latest AI, computer graphics, and robotics capabilities to deliver physically accurate digital twins of production facilities.

AI-Enabled Optimization and Assistance

Developers integrate AI into their virtual factory solutions using NVIDIA Metropolis for Factories, NVIDIA cuOpt™, and NVIDIA ACE, enabling their users to optimize facilities for complex automation, material flow, safety, and human-robot interaction.

Easy-to-Use Developer Tools and Application Building Blocks

To quickly build, deploy, and scale their solutions, developers use NVIDIA SDKs and NIM™ inference microservices, low- and no-code Python or C++ development tools, learning labs, reference architectures, workflow guides, and easy-to-modify extensions and app samples.

See How BMW Group Developers Build Factory Planning Applications on NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD

Quick Links

Get Started With NVIDIA Omniverse Developer Tools, SDKs, and APIs
Explore the Generative AI for Digital Twins Workflow Guide
Explore OpenUSD Resources
Take a Free Self-Paced Course
Review the Factory Digital Twin Reference Architecture

“It all starts with planning - a complex process in which we need to connect many tools, datasets and specialists around the world. Traditionally we are limited as data is managed separately in a variety of systems and tools. Today we are developing custom Omniverse applications to connect our existing tools, know-how, and teams in a unified view.”

Dr Milan Nedeljković
Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG

See How BMW is Developing Custom Applications for Factory Planners
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Get Started With Our Partners

See the ecosystem of developers integrating OpenUSD, NVIDIA Omniverse, and NVIDIA AI into their software, solution, and services portfolios.

You can get started with NVIDIA Omniverse developer tools, SDKs, and APIs. For insight into what we’ve learned about successful digital twin initiatives, review our ebook and factory digital twin reference architecture. You can also take a free course from NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and review our Generative AI for Digital Twins Guide.

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is more than just a file format. It's an open and extensible ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds.

OpenUSD encompasses a collection of fundamental tools and capabilities that accelerate workflows, teams, and projects. It delivers everything you need, whether you’re creating assets and environments for large-scale, connected virtual worlds, or building the tools that will make these worlds possible.

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Our enterprise-ready NVIDIA-Certified Systems™ are purpose-built to handle scale and complexity and are tested and optimized to run Omniverse workloads and applications.

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Accelerating Factory Development With Digital Twins

Wistron developers build digital twin software to enable teams to test and optimize factory layouts, increase productivity, and accelerate factory development by 50%.

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Training Robots and Streamlining Assembly With NVIDIA AI

Foxconn is gearing up to make one of NVIDIA’s most complex products, so it’s turning to a digital twin powered by the NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac platforms.

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Planning Future Factories With Digital Twins

BMW Group developers build factory planning applications to connect siloed data, tools, and teams around the world, enabling them to virtually optimize layouts, robotics, and logistics systems—years before factories come online.

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Redefining Production and Industrial Inspection

Delta Electronics developers build digital twin and synthetic data generation solutions to accelerate training of their computer vision models by 100X, while achieving 90% object detection accuracy.

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Democratizing Industrial Digital Twins With Generative AI, OpenUSD

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Simulating and Optimizing Factory Operations With AI-Enabled Digital Twins

Pegatron’s developers built a flexible digital twin platform for engineers and factory managers to collaboratively plan, simulate, and optimize their production lines, providing real-time insights about facilities, equipment, and maintenance tasks.

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Deliver Generative AI-Powered Virtual Factory Solutions With OpenUSD

SoftServe helped Continental add generative AI functionalities to its virtual factory solutions and further enhance the efficiency of its engineering teams.

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Revolutionizing Automotive Design and Manufacturing

Mercedes-Benz is taking a digital-first approach in vehicle production to design and plan manufacturing and assembly facilities before going into production.

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