Huang and Nedeljković showed a BMW employee monitoring operations in the factory. “Simulation offers perfect ground truth, whether for detection, segmentation or depth perception,” he added. ” Huang said.ĭomain randomization can generate an infinite permutation of photorealistic objects, textures, orientations, and lighting conditions, Huang said. “Isaac Sim generates millions of relevant synthetic images, and varies the environment to teach robots. That’s key to bootstrapping machine learning. Omniverse can tap into NVIDIA Isaac for synthetic data generation and domain randomization, Huang said. That agility is necessary since BMW produces 2.5 million vehicles per year, and 99 percent of them are custom. “With NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform, BMW is deploying a fleet of intelligent robots for logistics to improve the material flow in our production,” Nedeljković said. Omniverse, Nedeljković said, will help robots adapt to BMW’s reconfigured factories rapidly. These digital humans can be used in simulations to test new workflows for worker ergonomics and efficiency.īMW’s 57,000 factory workers share workspace with robots designed to make their jobs easier. “Digital Humans are trained with data from real associates.” “That’s exactly why NVIDIA has Digital Human for simulation,” Huang said. To simulate workflow in Omniverse, digital humans are trained with data from real associates, they’re then used to test new workflows in simulation to plan for worker ergonomics and efficiency. The next step: recreating these kinds of interactions, at scale, in simulations, Nedeljković said. “They work together to optimize the line as well as worker ergonomics and safety,” Nedeljković said. The other adjusts the line design, in real time. One of them “wormholes” - or travels virtually - into an assembly simulation with a motion capture suit and records task movements. Nedeljković showed two BMW planning experts located in different parts of the world testing a new line design in Omniverse. Now, thanks to Omniverse that doesn’t mean workers have to travel. BMW regularly reconfigures our factories to accommodate new vehicle launches. “The capability to operate in a perfect simulation revolutionalizes BMW’s planning processes,” Nedeljković said. To design and reconfigure its factories, BMW’s global teams can collaborate in real-time using different software packages like Revit, Catia, or point clouds to design and plan the factory in 3D and all the changes are visible, in real-time, on Omniverse. In an instant, Huang and Nedeljković summoned a digital twin of one of BMW’s factories - and the screen was filled with gleaming cars being assembled by banks of perfectly synchronized robots - all simulated. Moving the Parts That Go into the Machines That Move Your Parts These vehicles are produced in 31 factories located around the world, explained Milan Nedeljković, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG. “BMW may very well be the world’s largest custom-manufacturing company,” Huang said. In all, there are 2,100 possible ways to configure a new BMW. There are over 100 options for each car, and more than 40 BMW models. ‘The World’s Largest Custom-Manufacturing Company’ Inside the digital twin of BMW’s assembly system, powered by Omniverse, an entire factory in simulation.Įach of BMW’s factory lines can produce up to 10 different cars, and BMW prides itself on giving customers plenty of choices. The AI factory demo brings a full suite of NVIDIA technologies on Omniverse, including the NVIDIA Isaac platform for robotics, the NVIDIA EGX edge computing platform and the NVIDIA Aerial software development kit, which brings GPU-accelerated, software-defined 5G wireless radio access networks to the factory floor. The demo highlights the general availability of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, the first technology platform enabling global 3D design teams to work together simultaneously across multiple software suites in a shared virtual space. “We are working with BMW to create a future factory,” Huang announced during his keynote address at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference before giving his audience a look. In a demo blending reality and virtual reality, robotics and AI, to manage one of BMW’s automotive factories, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Monday rolled out a stunning vision of the future of manufacturing. The factories of the future will have a soul - a “digital twin” that blends man and machine in stunning new ways.
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