Digital twin: a virtual model of each physical production asset — i.e., each jet engine or wind turbine (see 2016 blog, “Digital twin, digital thread and composites”). Adding to that and contrasting ...

Guide to digital twins: Basics, uses, benefits. While the concept of a digital twin isn’t entirely new, its application has exploded due to progress in Internet of Things (IoT) devices ...

Mercedes-Benz said it will use digital twins — with help from Omniverse and USD — for production applications to design, collaborate, plan and operate manufacturing and assembly facilities.

A digital twin integrates a 360-degree view of a complex system, ... At BMW's Regensburg plant, teams used a digital twin to design and test a new assembly line machine entirely virtually.

The digital twin concept has been gaining a lot of traction over the past couple of years due to its potential in a number of industrial applications—from virtual commissioning and energy efficiency ...

In its simplest form, a digital twin is the virtual representation of a real-world object or process such as the movement of a robotic arm, an entire assembly line or a supply chain. When digital ...

And this year, digital twins began to break into the mainstream of manufacturing and research. In April, chipmaker Nvidia launched a version of its Omniverse 3-D simulation engine that allows ...

BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line. ... “We now have a perfect digital twin of our real-time production,” he says.

Mercedes-Benz is joining the metaverse. Or at least its assembly facilities are. The automaker is one of Nvidia’s latest customers to use Omniverse Enterprise, a software platform used to build ...