Once Regardless of the fact that when BMW would give up the factory to build a fresh car, the only way the manufacturer can check whether the chassis fits through the production line was to pour the team and physically pass the body through the process, noting all the hooks.
Now process engineers can simply start the simulation by sending a 3D model of the car using an almost identical digital twin of the factory. All errors are noticed before building a production line, saving time and money.
This is the power of industrial Metaverse. Forget about sending Avatar to virtual meetings with remote friends or poker nights with distant friends, as Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2021, when he changed the name Facebook to Meta; The Metaverse idea found a deadly application in production.
While the Consumer version of Metaverse stumbled, according to Report of the World Economic Forum. In this context, the Metaverse concept refers to the convergence of technology, including simulation, sensors, augmented reality and 3D standards. Varvn Aryacetas, leader of Deloitte strategy and innovation and innovation in Great Britain, prefers to describe this as spatial processing. “It’s about filling the physical world in the digital world,” he says. This may include training in virtual reality, digital product design and virtual simulations of physical spaces such as factories.
In 2022, Nvidia – Games Graphics Company, which now powers the artificial intelligence of the GPU – contrary to Omniverse, a set of tools for building simulation, running digital twins and power automation. It works as a platform for industrial metaverse. “This is general technology – it can be used for all kinds of things,” says Fr. Lebredian, vice president of Omniverse and Simulation Technology in Nvidia. “I mean that representing the real world in computer simulation is simply very useful for many things – but it is absolutely necessary to build any system that has autonomy.”
The Lowe’s home improvement chain uses the platform to test fresh systems in digital twins before building them in their physical stores. Zaha Hadid Architekci creates virtual models of its projects for remote cooperation. Amazon simulates warehouses for training virtual robots before they allow the real joining to the floor. BMW has built virtual models for all its places, including the latest factory in Debrecen, Hungary, which was planned and tested virtually before construction.
To simulate the entire production process, BMW has completed its virtual 3D models factories of its cars, equipment and even people. He created these elements in the Open Source files format created by Pixar called Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), and Omniverse provides technical bases for virtual models and BMW forming their own layers of software at the top, explains Matthias Mayr, a specialist in a virtual factory at BMW.
“If you imagine a factory that took half an hour a walk from one side to the other side, you can imagine that it is also a fairly large model,” says Mayr. Therefore, when addressing a technology game company – they know how to render scenes you can go through. Early versions of the virtual factory even had keyboard navigation WASD in the style of games, but it was dropped in favor of an interface based on clicking similar to Google Street View exploration in the browser so that everyone can easily find a way.