Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable the Industrial Metaverse

Siemens and NVIDIA to Enable Industrial Metaverse Siemens, a leading company in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transport, and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence (AI), have announced they are expanding their collaboration to increase the use of artificial intelligence-driven digital twin technology that will enable the industrial metaverse and help bring industrial automation to a new level.   [caption id="attachment_142318" align="aligncenter"] Siemens Process Simulate (left) connects to NVIDIA Omniverse (right) to enable a fully design-accurate, photorealistic, real-time digital twin.[/caption] As a first step of this collaboration, the companies plan to connect NVIDIA Omniverse™, a 3D design and collaboration platform, with Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform. This will enable an industrial metaverse where companies make faster and increasingly confident decisions with Siemens' physics-based digital models and NVIDIA's real-time artificial intelligence. The addition of Omniverse to the open Siemens Xcelerator business partner ecosystem will accelerate the use of digital twins that can deliver productivity and process improvements throughout manufacturing and product life cycles. As a result, by making visually rich, immersive simulations more accessible, companies of all sizes will be able to use digital twins with real-time performance data, create innovative industrial IoT solutions, benefit from insights that turn analytics into action at the edge or in the cloud, and overcome future engineering challenges. Roland Busch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG, said: "Photorealistic, physics-based digital twins embedded within the industrial metaverse offer tremendous potential to transform our economies and industries by providing a virtual world where people can interact and collaborate to solve real-world problems. [caption id="attachment_142316" align="aligncenter"] NVIDIA Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang (left) and Siemens CEO Roland Busch (right).[/caption] Through this partnership, we will make the industrial metaverse a reality for companies of all sizes," he said. "For over a decade, our digital twin technology has helped customers across all industries increase their productivity, and today we offer the most comprehensive digital twin of the industry. When Siemens Xcelerator connects to Omniverse, we will provide real-time, immersive meta data transfer that bridges hardware and software from edge to cloud, equipped with rich data from Siemens' software and solutions." Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA, said: "Siemens and NVIDIA share a common vision that the digital transformation of the industrial meta data repository will drive the way forward. This is just the first step in our joint effort to turn this vision into reality for our customers and all sectors of the global manufacturing industry." "The connection with Siemens Xcelerator will open NVIDIA's Omniverse and AI ecosystem to a completely new world of industrial automation created using Siemens' mechanical, electrical, software, IoT and edge solutions." This partnership brings together complementary technologies and ecosystems to realize industrial metaverse. Siemens holds a unique position at the intersection of the real and digital worlds, information technology and operational technology. The Siemens Xcelerator platform connects mechanical, electrical and software domains across product and production processes, enabling the convergence of IT and OT. NVIDIA Omniverse is a leading, AI-enabled, physically simulated, and industrial-scale virtual world engine that enables design-accurate live digital twins. Used by over 25,000 companies worldwide, NVIDIA AI is a highly popular AI platform and the intelligence engine of Omniverse in autonomous systems in the cloud and at the edge. NVIDIA Omniverse and AI are ideal computing engines to represent Siemens Xcelerator's comprehensive digital twin. SOURCE