Siemens and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration

Siemens plans to deepen its collaboration with NVIDIA to help build the industrial metaverse. Siemens is bringing immersive visualization powered by new NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs to the Siemens Xcelerator platform, driving increased use of artificial intelligence-driven digital twin technology. At NVIDIA GTC, Siemens and NVIDIA demonstrated how generative AI can revolutionize the visualization of complex data, making photorealism possible, and showcased how sustainable shipbuilder HD Hyundai can use it to develop new products, the companies note.

"We will revolutionize how products and experiences are designed, manufactured and serviced. On the path to the industrial metaverse, this next generation of industrial software enables customers to experience products as they would in the real world: in context, in stunning realism and—in the future—interact with them through natural language input," says Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens AG. "In collaboration with NVIDIA, we will bring accelerated computing, generative AI, and Omniverse integration across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio."

"Omniverse and generative AI are driving massive transformation for industrial enterprises," says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Siemens is bringing NVIDIA platforms to their customers and opening new opportunities for industry leaders to build the next wave of AI-enabled digital twins at every scale."

In the next phase of this collaboration, Siemens will release a new product later this year for Teamcenter X, Siemens' cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, part of the Siemens Xcelerator platform. Powered by NVIDIA Omniverse technologies, it will provide engineering teams with the ability to create an ultraintuitive, photorealistic, real-time and physics-based digital twin that eliminates workflow waste and errors.

In collaboration with NVIDIA, Siemens demonstrated the creation of real-time, photorealistic visualization for HD Hyundai, a company vested in sustainable ship manufacturing. HD Hyundai has been developing ammonia- and hydrogen-powered ships, a process requiring oversight of ships that can contain over 7 million discrete parts. HD Hyundai can use the new product to unify and visualize these engineering datasets interactively.

"We have long trusted Siemens Teamcenter for product lifecycle management. Based on this trust and through this new collaboration, we will be able to visualize and interact with the digital twin of ships while utilizing generative AI to create objects and HDR backgrounds for better understanding of projects in context. This will be beneficial in many ways, as it will reduce errors, improve customer experience, and also save time and cost," says Taejin Lee, chief information officer and chief digital officer, HD Hyundai.

At NVIDIA GTC, Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens AG, showed how the new product will enable you to build collaborative, real-time, physically based visualization driven by generative AI.

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