With the help of NVIDIA's AI and metauniverse technology, Mercedes-Benz can create a feedback loop to reduce waste, reduce energy consumption and continuously improve quality. ?
Mercedes-Benz has been cooperating with NVIDIA to develop software-defined cars. Its upcoming model will be built on the centralized computing platform of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, and its intelligent driving function will be tested and verified on the NVIDIA DRIVE Sim simulation platform based on Omniverse. ?
By introducing Omniverse from NVIDIA, Mercedes-Benz further integrates AI and metauniverse technology into its own development process to create a smarter and more efficient digital factory. ?
Automobile manufacturing is a huge project, involving thousands of parts, which requires many workers to work in an orderly way and cooperate with each other. Any supply chain or production problems will lead to costly delays. ?
In addition, when automobile manufacturers introduce new models, they must reconfigure the layout of production plants to adapt to the design of new cars. This process may lead to a large-scale shutdown of factories and the suspension of existing vehicles. ?
Mercedes-Benz plans to start applying the new platform for electric vehicles at its factory in Rastaft, Germany. The factory currently produces Mercedes-Benz A-Class and B-Class cars, as well as compact SUV GLA and all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQA. ?
Experts from NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz operation departments are establishing a "digital priority" planning process for the factory, which will not affect the production of compact models at present. In addition, this blueprint will be applied and popularized in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz to enhance the flexibility of vehicle manufacturing. ?
NVIDIA Omniverse is an open 3D development platform, which can help enterprises and institutions in different industries to build and run digital twins for industrial and scientific use cases. Based on Universal Scene Description (USD), Omniverse allows enterprises and developers to build customized 3D workflows, thus breaking data silos and interacting in an aggregated simulation environment in the form of a single SSOT view. ?
Through Omniverse, Mercedes-Benz planners can visit the digital twins in the factory and review and optimize the factory as needed. Every change made by the planner can be quickly evaluated and verified in the virtual world, and then implemented in the real world to ensure the maximum efficiency of factory workers in an ergonomic way. ?
In addition, by connecting Omniverse and its internal MO360 data platform, Mercedes-Benz can synchronize factories around the world, thus simplifying the operation of the global production network and updating the OTA software of production equipment. ?
Through the production planning based on Omniverse in NVIDIA, Mercedes-Benz is building an intelligent manufacturing system as leading as its smart cars. ?
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