AVEVA Develops Lifecycle Digital Twin Architecture

AVEVA, a software developer, reports a new collaboration with NVIDIA, that entails integrating their engineering and operations software into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint. Together, the two companies are creating physical and digital modules that can be deployed in large-scale data centers, known as AI Factories.

The collaboration draws on AVEVA’s portfolio, including the CONNECT industrial intelligence platform and industrial digital twin capabilities. It is projected to advance time to token for AI Factories, using domain-specific simulations, digital visualization and collaborative design tools to maximize GPU efficiency and accelerate deployment of AI Factories at speed and scale, AVEVA reports.

AVEVA is incorporating its solutions into the Omniverse DSX Blueprint, bringing benefits of digital twins to every stage of the AI factory lifecycle:

• Customers may bring OpenUSD SimReady assets into AVEVA Unified Engineering through a new converter, enabling them to reuse existing assets, design new ones, and leverage high-fidelity SimReady data and environments built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries.
• With a single source of truth from AVEVA Asset Information Management, customers can manage equipment, systems and make changes.
• With AVEVA Process Simulation, customers can model and run simulations of advanced liquid-cooling networks for AI Factories to refine designs.
• AVEVA’s PI System enables customers to aggregate IT and OT data across NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Exchange.
• Last, customers can use AVEVA Operations Control and Unified Operations Center to manage data center infrastructure, which comprises of electrical (UPS, switchgear, PDU, generator etc.), mechanical (chiller, CDU etc.) and safety systems into one scalable unified platform using a templatised situational awareness approach. 

"AI Factories are fast becoming the industrial-scale engines of the global digital economy," says Rob McGreevy, chief product officer, AVEVA said.  "To drive this transformation, AVEVA and NVIDIA are creating a new approach to digital twin deployments, founded on domain-specific expertise, pioneering software and operational excellence. Together, our companies are creating this new digital twin at scale, combining SimReady assets, NVIDIA hardware, and IT and OT data-driven insights to design, build and AI-optimise the intelligent industries of the future.”

“The rapid rise of gigawatt-scale AI Factories requires a new class of industrial intelligence to optimize the entire lifecycle of these massive data centers, from initial design to real-time operations,” says Vladimir Troy, vice president, AI Infrastructure, at NVIDIA. “By integrating AVEVA’s engineering and simulation software into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint, we are providing developers with a unified digital twin architecture to accelerate the deployment and efficiency of the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure.”

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.