BMW Group has raised the bar for factory planning, marking the latest milestone in the digitalization of automobile manufacture. Vehicle production is already started in the future factory Debrecen more than two years before the formal start of series production – virtually, at least, as Debrecen is the BMW Group’s first facility to be planned and certified entirely digitally.
The ground-breaking and creative planning idea was realised in partnership with NVIDIA, the company’s partner. Debrecen, the planned facility, is set to open in 2025. The new factory is scheduled to create the BMW Group’s next generation of all-electric cars, the Neue Klasse, and construction has just began.
BMW Group is using the NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, a platform for building and operating 3D industrial metaverse applications, to run real-time digital twin simulations to virtually optimise layouts, robotics, and logistic systems, to validate and optimise complex manufacturing systems across its production network. Omniverse will be expanded globally across the BMW product network.
