BMW Group has started "virtual production" in collaboration with Nvidia at its coming factory in Debrecen, Hungary, where it will build full-electric cars on the Neue Klasse platform starting in 2025.
The partnership between BMW Group and Nvidia is based on the tech company’s Omniverse platform, which allows companies to create digital twins of their industrial facilities and processes.
The digital twins can be used to plan and modify production to save time, space and money, and improve outcomes such as initial quality and worker safety, among other benefits.
Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, and Milan Nedeljkovic, BMW’s production chief, announced the global rollout of virtual planning for all BMW factories on Tuesday at Nvidia’s annual GTC developers’ conference.
"Virtual factory integration can save billions for the world’s industries," Huang said in a keynote address.
Other companies that are using Nvidia’s Omniverse platform include Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Rimac and EV start-up Lucid