On the Hannover Messe commerce present this week, Siemens unveiled a digital mannequin of next-generation FREYR Battery factories that was developed utilizing NVIDIA expertise.

The mannequin was created partly to spotlight a strategic partnership introduced Monday by Siemens and FREYR, with Siemens turning into FREYR’s most popular provider in automation expertise, enabling the Norway-based group to scale up manufacturing and maximize plant effectivity.

Constructed by Siemens, the demo makes use of the NVIDIA Omniverse growth platform to offer an immersive expertise of the FREYR factories and follows the joint imaginative and prescient for an industrial metaverse unveiled final 12 months by Siemens and NVIDIA.

Displayed as a part of an industrial metaverse expertise within the Siemens sales space throughout Hannover Messe 2023, the world’s largest industrial expertise commerce present, the demos incorporate operational knowledge from the FREYR manufacturing facility in Norway.

Highlighting the mixing between Siemens Xcelerator and NVIDIA Omniverse, the demo options 3D representations of the infrastructure, plant, equipment, tools, human ergonomics, security data, robots, automated guided automobiles, and detailed product and manufacturing simulations.

These applied sciences will assist FREYR to fulfill surging demand for high-density, cost-effective battery cells for stationary power storage, electrical mobility and marine functions.

Amid rising worldwide sustainability initiatives and the fast electrification of transportation, the battery business is projected to develop to $400 billion by 2030. Battery cell manufacturing is a important step within the battery worth chain, with producers investing billions of {dollars} in new battery-cell crops to fulfill this new demand.

Within the demo, Siemens exhibits a imaginative and prescient for the way groups can harness complete digital twins within the industrial metaverse utilizing fashions of present and future crops.

Inside moments, FREYR can arrange a gathering with potential traders or prospects to happen inside the digital FREYR plant in Norway and discover the ability’s exterior earlier than coming into to view present manufacturing processes at work.

The putting inside flythrough immediately conveys the ability’s measurement and scale. The actual-time, bodily correct simulation exhibits how machines and robots contained in the manufacturing facility transfer, and might even simulate complicated processes. Sensors capturing machine data permit real-time efficiency visualization and ergonomic assessments.

The demo additionally demonstrates how the mannequin can be utilized for manufacturing planning, highlighting how a plant supervisor can quickly consider plant efficiency utilizing a customized Siemens utility, which gives at a look an outline of the ability’s operation.

From there, the supervisor initiates a Microsoft Groups assembly with colleagues at a producing “cell” — which locations key folks, machines and provides in a single strategic location — contained in the digital manufacturing facility.

The workforce can then look at a robotic arm experiencing low-cycle-time points, entry machine efficiency knowledge, establish particular cycle-time issues and consider a dwell video stream with accompanying sensor knowledge on machine efficiency.

This showcase at Hannover Messe is simply the start, as extra industries embrace and implement the economic metaverse.

Study extra about NVIDIA Omniverse and our partnership with Siemens.