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Universal Scene Description, aka OpenUSD, is elevating the manufacturing game. Siemens, a leader in industrial technology,has embraced OpenUSDas a cornerstone of its digital transformation journey, using it to help bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds.
Siemens is integratingOpenUSD into its Siemens Xceleratorplatform applications, starting with Teamcenter X.
The integration empowers manufacturers to create robustdigital twinsthat mirror real-world counterparts with unprecedented fidelity and efficiency. This allows for optimized resource utilization, minimized waste and enhanced product quality through comprehensive simulation and analysis - all of which align with sustainability and quality objectives.
For a company such as Siemens - one that touches all parts of the manufacturing cycle - digitalization can mean time and cost savings, streamlined workflows and reduced risk of manufacturing defects.
Ian Fisher, a member ofSiemens Digital Industries Softwareteam, is no stranger to the impact of embracing digital transformation - especially one powered by OpenUSD andgenerative AI.
"We are an industrial company where data is king," he said. "OpenUSD comes in from the media side of the world, and we are looking to bring its openness and flexibility into the industrial world."
Enterprises of all sizes depend on Siemens' Teamcenter software, part of the Siemens Xcelerator platform, to develop and deliver products at scale. By connectingNVIDIA Omniverse- a platform of APIs and services based on OpenUSD - with Teamcenter X, Siemens' cloud-based product lifecycle management software and engineering teams can make their physics-based digital twins more photorealistic and immersive, improving accuracy and minimizing waste and errors within workflows.
Siemens' adoption of OpenUSD means that companies likeHD Hyundai, a leader in sustainable ship manufacturing, can consolidate and visualize complex engineering projects directly within Teamcenter X. Find out more in the demo:
OpenUSD is touching other parts of the Siemens company as well. The Siemens Motion Control Business Unit produces inverters, drive controllers and motors for more than 30,000 customers worldwide. Its lead electronics plant,GWE, based in Erlangen, Germany, has been working on use cases from AI-enabled computer vision fordefect detectionto training pick-and-place robots.
One of their main challenges has been acquiring data to train the AI models that fuel these use cases. By building customsynthetic data generationpipelines using Omniverse Replicator, powered by OpenUSD, the engineers were able to generate large sets of diverse training data by varying many parameters including color, texture, background, lighting and more - allowing them to not only bootstrap but also quickly iterate on their AI models.
Committed to a future of widespread OpenUSD integration, Siemens was one ofeight new general membersthat joined theAlliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)last month, an organization dedicated to interoperability of 3D content through standardization.
Watch Fisher and other special guests discuss the impact of OpenUSD on industrial digitization workflows in this livestream replay:
Get Plugged Into the World of OpenUSDSiemens and OpenUSD took center stage this week at Hannover Messe, the world's leading industrial trade fair. Siemens CEO Roland Busch and Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA,shared their visionon the potential of OpenUSD for customers in all industries.
For more on how Siemens is using OpenUSD to build and test complex AI-based automation systems completely virtually, watch the replay of the GTC session, "Virtual Commissioning of AI Vision Systems With OpenUSD." All other sessions from GTC'sOpenUSD Dayare available for viewing on demand.
Watch @BuschRo and @RevLebaredian discuss how #digitaltwins, powered by #AI and #OpenUSD, can drive productivity across all industries at #HM24.
- NVIDIA Design & Visualization (@NVIDIADesign) April 22, 2024
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