Under the combined effect of technological progress and diversified consumer demands, intelligent manufacturing is becoming a key force in the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, leading the re evaluation and optimization of various links in the value chain. According to IDC's research report, the global manufacturing industry spent a staggering $789.79 billion on IT in 2021, with the Chinese market contributing $115.65 billion. IDC predicts that by 2025, global manufacturing investment in the IT market will increase to $1.1 trillion. In addition to fixed assets investment, manufacturing enterprises are increasingly focusing on investment in digital, software, artificial intelligence and other fields to actively embrace Industry 4.0. By applying advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things and automation, enterprises aim to achieve intelligent manufacturing, improve production efficiency and flexibility. At the same time, the manufacturing industry is also moving towards Industry 5.0, strengthening human-machine collaboration, and promoting the development of the manufacturing industry towards a more personalized, humanized, and environmentally friendly direction.
The core of achieving this transformation lies in ensuring high consistency and interoperability between digital assets and the real world. This consistency and interoperability enable factory layout and product design to be validated in a digital environment, and then implemented and reused in the physical world, significantly saving time and money and accelerating product launch speed.
”On the enterprise application side, NVIDIA, rightfully known as the "king of computing power" and "king of AI infrastructure", has provided a combination of intelligent manufacturing solutions, including the Omniverse platform, OpenUSD, and generative AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Renxun Huang announced during the 2024 GTC conference that "all manufactured products will have digital twins. Omniverse is an operating system that can build and manipulate physically realistic digital twins. Omniverse and generative AI are both essential foundational technologies for digitizing the $50 trillion heavy industry market.
Digital Twin: The Real Power of the Virtual World
Digital twin technology is an important component of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. NVIDIA's digital twin toolchain, such as the Omniverse platform, is a native OpenUSD software platform used to connect complex 3D production processes and develop applications suitable for industrial digitization. It unifies 3D tools and data through USD, breaking down information silos, minimizing tedious data preparation, and enhancing collaboration between enterprise teams. In Omniverse, enterprises can utilize easy-to-use developer tools to build advanced real-time 3D applications that enable full high fidelity visualization and simulation of their products, assets, and facilities.
Omniverse released a trial version at the GTC conference in 2019, and has since released multiple platform applications. It also announced ecological connections with ISV vendors such as Autodesk and Adobe, and launched the enterprise level Omniverse Enterprise. As an important tool for NVIDIA to help build virtual worlds, Omniverse continues to expand its ecosystem and is NVIDIA's culmination platform in virtual collaboration and real-time simulation technology.
A key advantage of the Omniverse platform is its data interoperability. With OpenUSD, data from different sources and formats can be integrated into a unified environment, providing teams with a comprehensive view of the factory or product. This ability greatly simplifies cross departmental communication and improves the quality and speed of decision-making.
Through the Omniverse platform, engineers can simulate and test product performance in a unified virtual environment, benefiting various industries from automotive to construction, manufacturing to energy. The application of this technology enables products to be fully validated before being put into the market, improving their reliability and market competitiveness.
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In addition to digital twin technology, Omniverse also integrates cutting-edge applications such as generative AI and real-time simulation, integrating AI and various software applications into industrial workflows through the same platform. NVIDIA's AI technology is also bringing revolutionary changes to the manufacturing industry. By integrating AI, production lines can achieve automated optimization, improve production efficiency, and reduce human errors. The application of AI in quality inspection, predictive maintenance, and other areas has brought unprecedented precision and efficiency to the manufacturing industry.
NVIDIA's real-time AI technology is helping to handle complex tasks in manufacturing, factory logistics, and robotics. Through Omniverse, NVIDIA provides a shared virtual space that enables interdisciplinary teams to collaborate in a unified environment, achieving seamless transition from conceptual design to production planning. Through a simulation first approach, NVIDIA enables developers to develop, test, and refine large-scale real-time AI in a digital twin environment, and then deploy it to actual industrial infrastructure, greatly saving time and costs.
At the GTC 2024 conference, NVIDIA released the Omniverse Cloud API, providing developers with five powerful tools: USD Render, USD Write, USD Query, USD Notify, and Omniverse Channel. These APIs can be used individually or in combination to support scene rendering, data modification, querying, change tracking, and cross scene collaboration. Through these APIs, developers can integrate Omniverse's core technologies into existing digital twin design and automation software applications, or into simulation workflows for testing and verifying autonomous machines such as robots or autonomous vehicle.
NVIDIA's AI-on-5G solution integrates 5G, edge AI, and digital twin workloads into one system, providing a new operating mode for the manufacturing industry. This model not only supports immersive graphics and metaverse applications, but also brings revenue growth to smart cities, retail, entertainment, and manufacturing industries.
Software Ecology: Open Collaboration, Co Creating the Future
NVIDIA not only provides hardware support, but also encourages more developers and businesses to participate in innovation by building an open software ecosystem. This openness not only promotes rapid iteration and optimization of technology, but also brings more innovation opportunities to the manufacturing industry.
Through collaborations with multiple global computer manufacturers, NVIDIA is driving a new round of industrial revolution and helping the manufacturing industry achieve intelligent upgrades. From servers to networks, from infrastructure to software, the entire industry is preparing to use NVIDIA's technology to accelerate AI driven innovation in various fields.
NVIDIA Omniverse is not just a software platform, it represents a whole new way of collaboration and working. It provides a powerful toolkit for the manufacturing industry to design, simulate, optimize, and connect the physical and digital worlds. As the manufacturing industry continues to seek to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate product development, NVIDIA Omniverse is becoming one of the key technologies to achieve these goals.
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