Siemens introduces industrial metaverse design environment

Siemens recently announced Digital Twin Composer, a new software solution that can build industrial metaverse environments at scale, and which the company says empowers organisations to apply industrial AI, simulation and real-time physical data to make decisions virtually.

Digital Twin Composer enables industrial companies to combine 2D and 3D digital twin data from Siemens’ digital twin with physical real-time information in a managed, secure real-time photorealistic visual scene, built using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. With Digital Twin Composer, companies can rapidly build and maintain this global environment, containing all aspects of their product or production data (both virtual and physical) in a secure, managed high-fidelity 3D experience, throughout the lifecycle of the product, process or facility.

Siemens says that Digital Twin Composer provides contextualised, real-time insights and intelligence enabling companies to visualise, interact with and iterate on any product, process or factory in its real-world context before physical design or construction — whether it’s a new smartphone, a tanker in a shipyard, an autonomous electric vehicle, or a new AI factory on a greenfield or brownfield site.

For example, PepsiCo and Siemens have been working together to digitally transform select US manufacturing and warehouse facilities by converting them into high-fidelity 3D digital twins that simulate plant operations and the end-to-end supply chain to establish a performance baseline. Teams were able to optimise and validate new configurations to boost capacity and throughput, giving PepsiCo a unified, real-time view of operations with flexibility to integrate AI-driven capabilities over time.

Leveraging Siemens’ Digital Twin Composer, NVIDIA Omniverse and computer vision, PepsiCo can now recreate every machine, conveyor, pallet route and operator path with physics-level accuracy, enabling AI agents to simulate, test and refine system changes — identifying up to 90% of potential issues before any physical modifications occur, according to Siemens.

PepsiCo is digitally transforming select US manufacturing and warehouse facilities with the help of Digital Twin Composer. Image credit: PepsiCo. For a larger image click here.

“The Digital Twin Composer delivers on our vision for the industrial metaverse. It helps manufacturers to overcome the unprecedented challenges of mastering complexity, accelerating production, reducing costs and increasing profitability,” said Joe Bohman, executive vice president, PLM Products, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Siemens and NVIDIA are partnering to help manufacturers bring the most complex products, processes and factories online faster, boost resiliency and sustainability, and continuously optimise performance.”

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