Siemens Unveils Digital Twin Conductor That Builds Industrial Metaverses
Building a factory or designing a new product is expensive. If you get it wrong, fixing mistakes in the real world costs a lot of money and time. Siemens is trying to fix that with a new piece of software called Digital Twin Composer.
According to the company, this tool helps companies build what it calls “Industrial Metaverse” environments. While it sounds very “futuristic,” the idea is actually pretty practical. It allows businesses to combine 2D and 3D data with real-time information to create a photorealistic, working copy of a product or a factory.
By using libraries from NVIDIA Omniverse, these digital models obey the laws of physics. This means engineers can see exactly how a new smartphone or a massive tanker ship will work before they actually build it.