To meet demand for Blackwell, now in full production, Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is using NVIDIA Omniverse. The platform for developing industrial AI simulation applications is helping bring facilities in the U.S., Mexico and Taiwan online faster than ever.
Foxconn uses NVIDIA Omniverse to virtually integrate their facility and equipment layouts, NVIDIA Isaac Sim for autonomous robot testing and simulation, and NVIDIA Metropolis for vision AI.
Omniverse enables industrial developers to maximize efficiency through test and optimization in a digital twin before deploying costly change-orders to the physical world. Foxconn expects its Mexico facility alone to deliver significant cost savings and a reduction in kilowatt-hour usage of more than 30% annually.
World’s Largest Electronics Maker Plans With Omniverse and AI
To meet demands at Foxconn, factory planners are building physical AI-powered robotic factories with Omniverse and NVIDIA AI.
The company has built digital twins with Omniverse that allow their teams to virtually integrate facility and equipment information from leading industry applications, such as Siemens Teamcenter X and Autodesk Revit. Floor plan layouts are optimized first in the digital twin, and planners can locate optimal camera positions that help measure and identify ways to streamline operations with Metropolis visual AI agents.
In the construction process, the Foxconn teams use the Omniverse digital twin as the source of truth to communicate and validate the accurate layout and placement of equipment.
Virtual integration on Omniverse offers significant advantages, potentially saving factory planners millions by reducing costly change orders in real-world operations.
Delivering Robotics for Manufacturing With Omniverse Digital Twin
Once the digital twin of the factory is built, it becomes a virtual gym for Foxconn’s fleets of autonomous robots including industrial manipulators and autonomous mobile robots. Foxconn’s robot developers can simulate, test and validate their AI robot models in NVIDIA Isaac Sim before deploying to their real world robots.
Using Omniverse, Foxconn can simulate robot AIs before deploying to NVIDIA Jetson-driven autonomous mobile robots.
On assembly lines, they can simulate with Isaac Manipulator libraries and AI models for automated optical inspection, object identification, defect detection and trajectory planning.
Omniverse also enables their facility planners to test and optimize intelligent camera placement before installing in the physical world – ensuring they have complete coverage of the factory floor to support worker safety, and provide the foundation for visual AI agent frameworks.
Creating Efficiencies While Building Resilient Supply Chains
Using NVIDIA Omniverse and AI, Foxconn plans to replicate its precision production lines across the world. This will enable it to quickly deploy high-quality production facilities that meet unified standards, increasing the company’s competitive edge and adaptability in the market.
Foxconn’s ability to rapidly replicate will accelerate its global deployments and enhance its resilience in the supply chain in the face of disruptions, as it can quickly adjust production strategies and reallocate resources to ensure continuity and stability to meet changing demands.
Foxconn’s Mexico facility will begin production early next year and the Taiwan location will begin production in December.