Source: Wall Street News
Engineers from Nvidia said that the entire heavy industry is undergoing large-scale transformation. This transformation is taking place through digital twin tools that build real physical spaces, helping to improve production efficiency and reduce costs with the help of AI. Before the factory is actually built, it can be quickly iterated in a virtual world, which is equivalent to “illuminating reality from virtual to reality”, which will bring about major changes in manufacturing production methods.
On Tuesday, May 21st$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$At the annual Build Developers Conference, from Microsoft and$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$The team showed how the collaboration between the two companies is leading the nearly $50 trillion global manufacturing industry into a new digital era.
Based on Nvidia's Omniverse (omniverse) virtual reality and simulation platform and Microsoft Azure cloud services, it is possible to develop advanced digital twin tools (digital twins), making it easy for heavy industry engineers and developers to complete various processes such as design, testing, verification, optimization of production lines and automation in a 3D virtual environment that accurately simulates the physical world before the foundation is officially laid.
According to reports, Microsoft and Nvidia intend to join hands to digitize the world's manufacturing process worth 46 trillion US dollars. Nvidia's Omniverse Cloud Application Programming Interface (Omniverse Cloud API) based on Microsoft Azure will bring important features such as data interoperability, collaboration, and visualization of the physical world to software used to design, build, and operate industrial digital twin tools.
For example, last year, Swedish company Hexagon AB connected its reality capture platform HXDR and manufacturing platform Nexus to Nvidia's all-universe platform to help companies develop and deploy digital twin applications more easily and provide a full suite of acceleration solutions for industrial digitalization.
To build an operable digital twin tool, designers will first use Hexagon's Nexus platform to design, build, and simulate products and industrial manufacturing processes. Factory designers will also use Hexagon's scanning technology to capture the real world and render it in a cloud studio.
The engineers will then use Rockwell Automation's Emulate3D digital twin software to simulate (simulate) the production system before the actual construction of the plant. Then, through Nvidia's all-universe cloud API, data from each application is seamlessly imported into the Nvidia all-universe digital twin application in Microsoft's interactive data visualization software Power BI to generate a 3D environment.
When the actual construction of the factory is completed, its IoT data will be linked in real time to Nvidia's all-universe digital twin tool in Microsoft Power BI. Coupled with the assistance of Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot, factory operators can use natural language to thoroughly understand their production data.
In other words, Microsoft and Nvidia's vision is to work together to bring artificial intelligence and collaboration (AI and collaboration) into the next era of industrial digitalization.
Engineers from Nvidia said that the entire heavy industry is undergoing large-scale transformation. This transformation is taking place through digital twin tools that build real physical spaces, helping to improve production efficiency and reduce costs with the help of AI. Before the factory is actually built, it can be quickly iterated in a virtual world, which is equivalent to “illuminating reality from virtual to reality”, which will bring about major changes in manufacturing production methods.
At the level of specific cooperation, Nvidia's RTX professional visual computing platform and accelerated computing technology play an important role in building digital twin applications in the industry mentioned above, enabling large-scale simulations of the real physical world to be presented in the digital world. Microsoft, on the other hand, helps manufacturing users extract data from end-side industrial systems into the Azure cloud and use AI to analyze it to discover value.
According to Nvidia, Omniverse is a platform for connecting and constructing a 3D virtual world of the industrial metaverse based on the industry standard “Common Scenario Description OpenUSD”. Generic scene descriptions actually come from the film industry, and unlike the film industry constructing a virtual scene based on the real world, their use cases in the industry are basically “reversed”, that is, first completing the construction and optimization of a factory in an unreal world, and then bringing it into the real world. This “anti-traditional” approach can actually deepen the degree of use of data.
The Nvidia team also said that this transformation of the manufacturing industry “from virtual to reality” will well transform remote monitoring and remote operation processes. For example, a multinational industrial enterprise can remotely view the operation of factories around the world from its headquarters and even remotely solve real-world production-level problems without having to send engineers on frequent international trips.
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