The world’s largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn, has employed NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac platforms to create a digital twin of one of its latest factories. The company’s new factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been replicated as a digital twin. Foxconn’s engineers are defining processes and training robots in this virtual environment so the physical plant can produce NVIDIA Blackwell HGX systems at high volume.

The digital twin has been implemented to allow factory engineers find the best placement for dozens of robotic arms, each weighing hundreds of pounds. To accurately monitor the overall process, thousands of sensors have been employed, including many networked video cameras in a matrix to show plant operators all the right details.

“Our digital twin will guide us to new levels of automation and industrial efficiency, saving time, cost and energy,” said Young Liu, chairman of the company that last year had revenues of nearly $200 billion.

Based on its efforts so far, the company anticipates that it can increase the manufacturing efficiency of complex servers using the simulated plant, leading to significant cost savings and reducing kilowatt-hour usage by over 30% annually.

Foxconn is building its digital twin with software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio including Teamcenter and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing 3D workflows and applications based on OpenUSD.

NVIDIA and Siemens announced in March that they will connect Siemens Xcelerator applications to NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud API microservices. Foxconn will be among the first to employ the combined services, so its digital twin is physically accurate and visually realistic.

Engineers will employ Teamcenter with Omniverse APIs to design robot work cells and assembly lines. Then they’ll use Omniverse to pull all the 3D CAD elements into one virtual factory where their robots will be trained with NVIDIA Isaac Sim.