NVIDIA: SYNCTWIN HELPS DEMOCRATIZE INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWINS WITH GENERATIVE AI, OPENUSD

To address the digitalization needs of manufacturing and other industries, SyncTwin GmbH — a company that builds software to optimize production, intralogistics and assembly — developed a digital twin app using NVIDIA cuOpt, an accelerated optimization engine for solving complex routing problems, and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform of application programming interfaces, software development kits and services that enable developers to build OpenUSD-based applications.

SyncTwin is harnessing the power of the extensible OpenUSD framework for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds to help its customers create physically accurate digital twins of their factories. The digital twins can be used to optimize production and enhance digital precision to meet industrial performance.

OpenUSD’s Role in Modern Manufacturing
Manufacturing workflows are incredibly complex, making effective communication and integration across various domains pivotal to ensuring operational efficiency. The SyncTwin app provides seamless collaboration capabilities for factory plant managers and their teams, enabling them to optimize processes and resources.

The app uses OpenUSD and Omniverse to help make factory planning and operations easier and more accessible by integrating various manufacturing aspects into a cohesive digital twin. Customers can integrate visual data, production details, product catalogs, orders, schedules, resources and production settings all in one place with OpenUSD.




The SyncTwin app creates realistic, virtual environments that facilitate seamless interactions between different sectors of factory operations. This capability enables diverse data — including floorplans from Microsoft PowerPoint and warehouse container data from Excel spreadsheets — to be aggregated in a unified digital twin.

The flexibility of OpenUSD allows for non-destructive editing and composition of complex 3D assets and animations, further enhancing the digital twin.

“OpenUSD is the common language bringing all these different factory domains into a single digital twin,” said Michael Wagner, cofounder and chief technology officer of SyncTwin. “The framework can be instrumental in dismantling data silos and enhancing collaborative efficiency across different factory domains, such as assembly, logistics and infrastructure planning.”




Pioneering Generative AI in Factory Planning
By integrating generative AI into its platform, SyncTwin also provides users with data-driven insights and recommendations, enhancing decision-making processes.

This AI integration automates complex analyses, accelerates operations and reduces the need for manual inputs.

Hear SyncTwin and NVIDIA experts discuss how digital twins are unlocking new possibilities in this recent community livestream:



By tapping into the power of OpenUSD and NVIDIA’s AI and optimization technologies, SyncTwin is helping set new standards for factory planning and operations, improving operational efficiency and supporting the vision of sustainability and cost reduction across manufacturing.