

In the EV factory demo, Nedeljković invites Huang into an update in which the BMW team seeks to include a robot in a constrained floor space. Virtual Integration for Real-World EfficienciesīMW Group’s virtual Debrecen plant illustrates the power and agility of planning AI-driven industrial manufacturing plants with the Omniverse platform. Starting to work in the virtual factory two years before it opens enables the BMW Group to ensure smooth operation and optimal efficiency. All of this is possible from any location, on any device. With Omniverse, the BMW team can aggregate data into massive, high-performance models, connect their domain-specific software tools and enable multi-user live collaboration across locations. The keynote demo highlights a virtual planning session for BMW’s Debrecen EV plant. This means they can get to production faster and operate more efficiently, improving time to market, digitalization and sustainability. Omniverse - the culmination of over 25 years of NVIDIA graphics, accelerated computing, simulation and AI technologies - enables manufacturing companies to plan and optimize multibillion-dollar factory projects entirely virtually. The partnership will continue to push the frontiers of virtual integration and virtual tooling for the next generation of smart-connected factories around the world,” Huang said during the GTC keynote. “We are excited and incredibly proud of the progress BMW has made with Omniverse. In his GTC keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared a demo in which he was joined by BMW Group’s Milan Nedeljković, member of the board of management, to officially open the automaker’s first entirely virtual factory, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse. The automaker announced today with NVIDIA at GTC that it’s expanding its use of the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for building and operating industrial metaverse applications across its production network around the world, including the planned electric vehicle plant in Debrecen, Hungary, that will only start operations in 2025.

BMW Group is at the forefront of a key new manufacturing trend - going digital-first by using the virtual world to optimize layouts, robotics and logistics systems years before production really starts.
