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India's manufacturing industry is on the cusp of a revolution, with leading manufacturers adopting AI-powered technologies to streamline their operations and drive efficiency. Leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse, these companies are building virtual factories, digital twins, and generative AI applications to accelerate their factory planning, optimize processes, and enhance automation. This trend was highlighted at the recent NVIDIA AI Summit in India, where major industrial names such as Ola Electric, Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, and TCS showcased their adoption of Omniverse and its various applications.
India's manufacturing industry is adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance productivity. The adoption of NVIDIA Omniverse has been at the forefront of this trend, with leading manufacturers leveraging its power to build virtual factories, digital twins, and generative AI applications. Virtual factories allow for simulation of production processes, testing of new designs, and optimization of operations in a controlled environment. Ola Electric and Reliance Industries are using NVIDIA Omniverse to develop digital twin platforms that have achieved significant productivity gains and cost savings. System integrators such as TCS and Tech Mahindra are developing industrial AI applications and services on Omniverse to help manufacturers develop digital twins. TCS has launched a suite of digital twin solutions built on NVIDIA Omniverse that enable manufacturers to design, simulate, operate, and optimize their products and production facilities. The adoption of industrial AI and virtual factories is expected to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance productivity in India's manufacturing industry.
In a bid to remain competitive in the global market, India's manufacturing industry is increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance productivity. The adoption of NVIDIA Omniverse has been at the forefront of this trend, with leading manufacturers and system integrators leveraging its power to build virtual factories, digital twins, and generative AI applications.
At the heart of this shift is the growing recognition that traditional manufacturing processes are becoming increasingly complex and time-consuming. By building virtual replicas of their factories, manufacturers can simulate production processes, test new designs, and optimize operations in a highly controlled environment. This allows them to reduce costs associated with physical prototypes, minimize waste, and accelerate time-to-market for new products.
One company that has made significant strides in this area is Ola Electric, the largest electric scooter maker in India. The company has developed an Ola Digital Twin platform on NVIDIA Omniverse, which has helped it achieve 20% faster time to market from design to commissioning for its manufacturing operations. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim, the ODT platform taps into core Omniverse technologies like OpenUSD for data interoperability, RTX for physically-based rendering, and generative AI for accelerated world building.
Ola's digital twin platform is being used to plan and build its next-generation Future Factory – India's largest integrated and automated electric two-wheeler manufacturing plant. The platform has provided valuable insights for factory and construction planning, as well as for quality inspection systems, manufacturing processes, and safety training. By comparing real and simulated environments, Ola is also using the digital twin to assist with predictive maintenance.
Another company that has made significant strides in this area is Reliance Industries, a leading industrial conglomerate in India. The company is embracing Omniverse for planning its new solar panel factory in Jamnagar, India, with a goal of reaching net-zero carbon status by 2035. By leveraging Omniverse's capabilities for managing 3D data, virtual collaboration, simulation, and optimized operations, Reliance Industries aims to streamline its manufacturing processes, reduce costs, and enhance sustainability.
The company is also using Omniverse to develop OpenUSD-based, SimReady virtual factory assets, including the factory building, manufacturing equipment, robots, kinematics, and material and product models. By running simulations for logistics and human workers, Reliance Industries can ensure that its new factory is optimized for efficiency, safety, and productivity.
System integrators play a crucial role in helping India's largest manufacturers use NVIDIA technology to build the country's next generation of manufacturing plants. Consulting leaders such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tech Mahindra are developing industrial AI applications and services on Omniverse to help manufacturers develop digital twins for accelerated factory planning, optimized processes, robotics training, and large-scale automation.
TCS announced its work on a suite of digital twin solutions built on NVIDIA Omniverse that enable manufacturers to design, simulate, operate, and optimize their products and production facilities across multiple sectors. The company's digital twin solutions cover nearly every aspect of heavy manufacturing, from building virtual factories for real-time factory planning and monitoring to creating digital twins of aircraft components for immersive training and predictive maintenance.
TCS is also using Omniverse to simulate autonomous vehicles, enabling automotive companies to simulate and validate complex driving scenarios without the need for physical testing. Meanwhile, its smart farming digital twin integrates real-world physics to simulate farming scenarios that help improve equipment performance.
In addition, TCS launched its TCS Manufacturing AI for Industrials, a generative AI solution built on the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform, which includes NVIDIA NeMo for building and managing the AI application lifecycle. This solution enables general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to be turned into manufacturing expert AI agents capable of providing real-time, industry-specific insights across clients' various production facilities.
These agentic AIs can be connected to virtual factories developed on Omniverse to augment facility planning, design, and operations. Tech Mahindra, a global leader in technology consulting, announced its establishment of a center of excellence enabled by NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse. This center is targeted at helping drive advances in sovereign LLM frameworks, agentic AI, and physical AI.
The adoption of industrial AI and virtual factories is expected to have a significant impact on India's manufacturing industry, driving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing productivity. As the country continues to position itself as a global industrial manufacturing powerhouse, it remains to be seen how these technologies will shape the future of Indian manufacturing.
Related Information:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/india-manufacturers-digital-twins/
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/india-ai-infrastructure/
Published: Thu Oct 24 04:24:57 2024 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
