Welcome to BMW production, Jensen.
I'm pleased to show you why BMW sets the standards for innovation and flexibility.
Our collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA AI
leads into a new era of digitalization of automobile production.
Fantastic to be with you, Milan. I'm excited to do this virtual factory visit with you.
We are inside the digital twin of BMW's assembly system, powered by Omniverse.
For the first time, we are able to have our entire factory in simulation.
Global teams can collaborate using different software packages like Revit, Catia,
or point clouds to design and plan the factory in real-time 3D.
The capability to operate in a perfect simulation revolutionizes BMW's planning processes.
Are those gaskets still in the right place for you? Yeah...
BMW regularly reconfigures its factories to accommodate new vehicle launches.
Here we see two planning experts
located in different parts of the world testing a new line design in Omniverse.
One of them wormholes into an assembly simulation with a motion capture suit
records task movements while the other expert adjusts the line design in real time.
They work together to optimize the line as well as worker ergonomics and safety
Can you tell how far i have to bend down there? So we'll get you a taller one, but there's.... Yeah, that's perfect
We would like to be able to do this at scale in simulation
That's exactly why NVIDIA has digital humans for simulation.
Digital humans are trained with data from real associates. You could then use digital humans
and simulation to test new workflows for worker ergonomics and efficiency.
Now your factories employ 57,000 people that share workspace
with many robots designed to make their jobs easier. Let's talk about them.
You're right, Jensen. Robots are crucial for a modern production system.
With NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform
BMW is deploying a fleet of intelligent robots
for logistics to improve the material flow in our production.
This agility is necessary since we produce 2.5 million vehicles per year,
99% of them are custom.
Synthetic data generation and domain randomization
available in Isaac are key to bootstrapping machine learning.
Isaac Sim generates millions of synthetic images and varies the environment to teach the robots.
Domain randomization can generate an infinite permutation
of photorealistic objects, textures, orientations, and lighting conditions.
It is ideal for generating ground truth whether for detection, segmentation, or depth perception.
Let me show you an example of how we can combine it all to operate your factory.
With NVIDIA's Fleet Command,
your associates can securely orchestrate robots
and other devices in the factory from Mission Control.
They can monitor, in real time, complex manufacturing cells,
update software over the air, launch robot missions, and tele-operate. When a robot needs a helping hand
an alert can be sent to Mission Control and one of your associates can take control to help the robot.
We're in the digital twin of one of your factories but you have 30 others spread across 15 countries.
The scale of BMW production is impressive, Milan.
Indeed, Jensen. The scale and complexity of our production network
requires BMW to constantly innovate.
I am happy about the tight collaboration between our two companies.
NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA AI give us the chance to simulate all 31 factories
in our production network. These new innovations will reduce the planning times
improve flexibility and precision and in the end produce 30 percent more efficient planning processes.
Milan, I could not be more proud of the innovations that our collaboration is
bringing to the factories of the future. I appreciate you hosting me for a virtual
visit of the digital twin of your BMW production. It is a work of art!