In today’s opening keynote at NVIDIA GTC, the company said: CEO, Jensen Huangtook the stage to highlight, among other breaking news like genAI and robotics tools, some of the companies that are helping accelerate the presence of XR/spatial computing solutions in the workplace – partners that are leveraging or supporting: Powers the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to create enterprise digital twin workflows.
“The future of heavy industry begins with digital twins,” said Jensen. The CEO also explained that NVIDIA’s digital twin and AI platforms are integrated to launch the next generation of industrial workflows, including helping robots navigate and understand factory environments through virtual simulations.
Jensen added:
Connecting Omniverse to your workflow connects your ecosystem from design inception through engineering, manufacturing, planning, and digital twin operations. It’s amazing how much productivity you can get once you get it all connected. It’s really great.
NVIDIA is working to optimize the Omniverse platform for industry partners by providing cloud-based APIs that deliver digital twin workflows to customers. “Everything that is manufactured will have a digital twin,” Huang explained, while Jensen described Omniverse as “an operating system for building and operating physically realistic digital twins.” This operating system can be used by customers for design processes, automated workflows, or predictive weather solutions.
The company highlighted how it is expanding its Omniverse platform with new cloud integrations that optimize services for headsets and other devices, with Vision Pro leading the competition. The Vision Pro showcase also highlighted that the company is working closely with long-standing partners like Wistron to help end users understand and take advantage of new services using Vision Pro devices.
Let’s take a quick look at some of the company’s Omniverse partners and how each company is helping NVIDIA deploy Omniverse into today’s forward-thinking workplace.
siemens
Siemens is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA by adopting Omniverse Cloud as part of the Siemens Xcelerator platform for developing industrial digital twins and automation tools. Omniverse is powered by Siemens Teamcenter
Jensen added:
We have a great partnership with Siemens. Siemens is the world’s largest industrial engineering and operations platform. A wide variety of companies can be found across industries, and heavy industry is one of the final frontiers. Now we finally have the technology we need to make a real impact. Siemens is building the industrial Metaverse, and today we announced that Siemens is connecting its crown jewel, Xcelerator, to NVIDIA (Omniverse).
Siemens is investing significant time and capital into its industrial metaverse ecosystem, worth around €2 billion, with plans to allocate €1 billion for construction of the facility, as reported late last year. Siemens also aims to drive growth, innovation and resilience through XR technologies throughout its industrial Metaverse journey. With an investment of 2 billion euros, Siemens and its partners will develop innovation labs, training centers, manufacturing and other verticals for Industry 4.0.
Siemens began highlighting its collaboration with NVIDIA last year when it first incorporated digital twin technology into its workflow. Last April, Siemens announced that it would leverage NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform to create a digital twin of battery development partner FREYR’s Gigafactory.
today. Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, said: Also added:
With the NVIDIA Omniverse API, Siemens helps customers make physics-based digital twins more immersive through generative AI. This will help everyone design, build, and test the next generation of products, manufacturing processes, and factories virtually before deploying them in the real world. By combining the real and digital worlds, Siemens’ digital twin technology is helping businesses around the world become more competitive, resilient and sustainable.
microsoft
Microsoft is committed to helping NVIDIA optimize Omniverse Cloud. The leading computing company is providing NVIDIA with Azure support to further support cloud operations while delivering high-quality digital twin services to end users who require less computing power.
The Omniverse Cloud API is scheduled to be released on Microsoft Azure in late 2024. Andy Pratt, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Emerging Technologies“The next era of industrial digitalization has arrived,” he said.
Pratt also added:
The NVIDIA Omniverse API on Microsoft Azure enables organizations across industries and the world to connect, collaborate, and enhance their existing tools to create the next wave of AI-enabled digital twins.
In his keynote address at the event, Jensen also mentioned how NVIDIA Omniverse will be hosted on Microsoft Azure. “All of this is tightly integrated and tightly coupled with Microsoft,” Jensen said.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) primarily leverages the latest AI innovations from NVIDIA, such as new CUDA hardware solutions for optimizing AI workflows. But AWS is also leveraging Omniverse to create innovative new XR-based use cases.
Omniverse is expected to have an increasing presence within AWS spatial computing workflows, using digital twins, simulations, and immersive spaces to help educate and enable the future of industrial robotics solutions.
In his GTC keynote, Jensen explained that AWS/Amazon Robotics is collaborating with NVIDIA to accelerate its AI/robotics ambitions using the OpenUSD file format and Omniverse Cloud services.
Wistron
As mentioned, Wistron is leveraging Omniverse Cloud and Vision Pro headsets to enable factory preview and digital visualization. During the keynote, NVIDIA further highlighted how partners are leveraging Omniverse to improve their internal workflows.
According to the company, Wistron used NVIDIA SDKs and APIs to digitally test and optimize factory layouts and apply relevant simulation data to increase operator efficiency by approximately 51%.
Additionally, during the factory construction workflow, Wistron leverages Omniverse to create a digital twin of potential factory layouts to identify and correct inconsistencies early before they impact actual operations.
NVIDIA also said that Omniverse integration allows Wistron to reduce end-to-end cycle time by 50% and defect rate by 40%.
other partners
Naturally, given the company’s monumental presence, NVIDIA is working with an extensive list of partners to leverage its Omniverse platform. Other end users include Nissan, Ansys, Cadence, and Dassault Systèmes, all of whom are currently leveraging Omniverse to impact the future of work.
In addition, NVIDIA’s broader emerging technology services, namely robotics and genAI solutions, also benefit from a comprehensive list of partners helping to optimize NVIDIA workplace products. Some partners include but are not limited to Google Cloud, Meta, Cisco, and SAP.