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Mercedes Benz turns to digital twins to better design, plan, and optimise its factories

By Ken Wong - on 4 Jan 2023, 1:32am

Mercedes Benz turns to digital twins to better design, plan, and optimise its factories

Mercedes Benz is using digital twins to design, plan and optimise its manufacturing and assembly facilities.

In another sign that NVIDIA’s Omniverse and Digital Twins development are gaining traction vehicle manufacturer Mercedes Benz is using Omniverse Enterprise at its sites worldwide to design, plan and optimise its manufacturing and assembly facilities.

The company hopes that by developing digital twins of their production environments, globally dispersed teams will open up new abilities to collaborate in real-time, accelerate decision-making and identify opportunities to reduce waste, decrease energy consumption and continuously enhance quality.

According to NVIDIA, Mercedes Benz is preparing to manufacture its new electric vehicle platform at its plant in Rastatt, Germany, and their operations experts are simulating new production processes in Omniverse which can be used alongside their existing vehicle production.

This virtual workflow will let Mercedes quickly react to supply chain disruptions and reconfigure the assembly line as needed.

Mercedes Benz is simulating their production lines in their new EV Rastatt factory.

The latest release of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, available now, brings increased performance, generational leaps in real-time RTX ray and path tracing, and streamlined workflows to help teams build connected 3D pipelines, and develop and operate large-scale, physically accurate, virtual 3D worlds.

The release includes support for the breakthrough innovations within the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, including third-generation RTX technology and DLSS 3, delivering up to 3x performance gains when powered by the latest GPU technology, such as NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation, NVIDIA L40 and OVX systems.

NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise is available by subscription from BOXX Technologies, Dell Technologies, Z by HP, and Lenovo, as well as through channel partners like Leadtek.

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