Right this moment, throughout NVIDIA GTC’s opening keynote, the agency’s CEO, Jensen Huang, took to the stage to spotlight, amongst different breaking information, similar to genAI and robotic instruments, a number of the companies which can be serving to to speed up the presence of XR/spatial computing options within the office, particularly companions which can be leveraging or are serving to to spice up the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for creating enterprise-ready digital twin workflows.
“The way forward for heavy industries begins as a digital twin,” mentioned Jensen. The CEO additionally defined that NVIDIA’s digital twin and AI platforms unite to provoke the subsequent era of business workflows, similar to serving to robots navigate and perceive manufacturing facility environments by way of digital simulations.
Jensen added:
When you get Omniverse related into your workflow, your ecosystem, from the start of your design to engineering, to manufacturing, planning, all the best way to digital twin operations. When you join all of it collectively, it’s insane how a lot productiveness you will get. It’s actually simply great.
NVIDIA is working to optimize the Omniverse platform for its trade companions by offering cloud-based APIs which empower shoppers with digital twin workflows; Huang defined that “all the pieces manufactured may have digital twins,” Jensen additionally famous that Omniverse is the working system for “constructing and working bodily lifelike digital twins,” that shoppers can use for design processes, automation workflows, and even predictive climate options.
The agency highlighted how it’s increasing the Omniverse platform with new cloud integration that optimizes the service for headsets and different units, with Imaginative and prescient Professional main the race. Furthermore, throughout its Imaginative and prescient Professional showcase, the agency highlighted how it’s working intently with long-time companions like Wistron to assist end-users perceive and leverage the rising service utilizing Imaginative and prescient Professional units.
Let’s take a fast take a look at a number of the agency’s Omniverse companions and the way every agency helps NVIDIA distribute Omniverse into at this time’s forward-thinking workplaces.
Siemens
Siemens is increasing its partnership with NVIDIA by adopting Omniverse Cloud as a part of Siemens’ Xcelerator platform for growing industrial digital twins and automation instruments. Omniverse is touchdown on Siemens Teamcenter X cloud-based product lifecycle administration (PLM) software program, permitting staff to leverage genAI instruments to develop enterprise digital twins.
Jensen added:
We’ve a terrific partnership with Siemens. Siemens is the world’s largest industrial engineering and operations platform. You’re seeing so many various firms within the industrial area [and] heavy industries is likely one of the last frontiers of it. We lastly now have the mandatory expertise to go and make an actual influence. Siemens is constructing [the] industrial Metaverse, and at this time, we’re saying that Siemens is connecting their crown jewel, Xcelerator, to NVIDIA [Omniverse].
Siemens is investing large time and capital into an industrial Metaverse ecosystem valued at roughly €2 billion, with an accompanying plan to allocate €1 billion to construct services, as reported late final yr. Siemens additionally goals to expedite progress, innovation, and resilience with its XR applied sciences by way of its industrial Metaverse journey; with the €2 billion funding, Siemens and its companions will develop innovation labs, schooling centres, manufacturing, and different verticals for Business 4.0.
Siemens began to spotlight its work with NVIDIA final yr when it first included digital twin expertise into its workflows. In April final yr, Siemens introduced it might leverage NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform to create digital twins of FREYR’s gigafactories – a associate growing batteries.
Right this moment. Roland Busch, the President and CEO of Siemens AG, additionally added:
By the NVIDIA Omniverse API, Siemens empowers clients with generative AI to make their physics-based digital twins much more immersive. It will assist everyone to design, construct and check next-generation merchandise, manufacturing processes and factories nearly earlier than they’re constructed within the bodily world. By combining the true and the digital worlds, Siemens’ digital twin expertise is enabling firms world wide to develop into extra aggressive, resilient and sustainable.
Microsoft
Microsoft is working to assist NVIDIA optimize Omniverse Cloud. The main computing agency is offering NVIDIA with Azure help that additional helps its cloud operations whereas delivering high-quality digital twin companies to end-users, which require much less computing energy.
Omniverse Cloud APIs will land on Microsoft Azure later in 2024. Andy Pratt, Company Vice President of Microsoft Rising Applied sciences, mentioned the “subsequent period of business digitalization has arrived.”
Pratt additionally added:
With NVIDIA Omniverse APIs on Microsoft Azure, organizations throughout industries and world wide can join, collaborate and improve their current instruments to create the subsequent wave of AI-enabled digital twins.
Furthermore, in the course of the occasion’s keynote, Jensen famous how NVIDIA Omniverse shall be hosted on Microsoft Azure – “all of that is deeply built-in and deeply related with Microsoft,” Jensen remarked.
Amazon Net Companies
Amazon Net Companies (AWS) primarily leverages NVIDIA’s current AI improvements, similar to its new CUDA {hardware} resolution for optimizing AI workflows. Nonetheless, AWS additionally leverages Omniverse to create modern new XR-based use instances.
Omniverse will seemingly have an elevated presence inside AWS spatial computing workflows, utilizing digital twins, simulations, and immersive areas to assist practice and implement the way forward for industrial robotic options.
In the course of the opening GTC keynote, Jensen defined that AWS/Amazon Robotics is working with NVIDIA, utilizing OpenUSD file varieties and Omniverse Cloud companies to speed up its AI/robotics ambitions.
Wistron
As famous, Wistron is leveraging Omniverse Cloud and Imaginative and prescient Professional headsets to assist with manufacturing facility previews and digital visualizations. In the course of the keynote, NVIDIA highlighted additional how the associate is leveraging Omniverse to enhance inside workflows.
In line with the agency, Wistron is utilizing NVIDIA SDKs and APIs to check and optimize manufacturing facility layouts digitally and making use of associated simulation information, which led to a rise in employee effectivity by roughly 51 per cent.
Furthermore, throughout manufacturing facility building workflows, Wistron leverages Omniverse to create digital twins of potential manufacturing facility layouts to determine and repair discrepancies early and earlier than they’ll have an effect on actual operations.
NVIDIA additionally notes that the Omniverse integration permits Wistron to scale back end-to-end cycle occasions by 50 per cent and defect charges by 40 per cent.
Different Companions
NVIDIA, unsurprisingly and because of the agency’s monumental presence, is working with an enormous record of companions to leverage its Omniverse platform. Another end-users embody Nissan, Ansys, Cadence, and Dassault Systèmes, all of that are leveraging Omniverse at this time to affect the way forward for work.
Furthermore, NVIDIA’s broader rising expertise companies, particularly robotics and genAI options, are also experiencing a complete record of companions serving to to optimize NVIDIA office merchandise; some companions embody however should not restricted to Google Cloud, Meta, Cisco, and SAP.
