Europe's Industrial Leaders Reinvent Engineering with NVIDIA
Major European industrial leaders are leveraging advanced NVIDIA tools and open models to accelerate manufacturing, engineering, and digital twin implementations.
Radwan AbdulhadiEditor and technology writer
Transforming Factory Operations with AI Agents
To increase productivity, accelerate innovation, and create new opportunities for economic growth, Europe's industrial leaders are tapping NVIDIA CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries, as well as NVIDIA Cosmos and Nemotron open models, across the engineering and manufacturing lifecycle. Bringing those capabilities together on the factory floor, the NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is now available in early access on GitHub, providing a path for developers to build and deploy always-on factory manager agents that coordinate work across machines.
These specialized agents focus on use cases such as visual inspection, root cause analysis, report generation, and fleet management. They can connect to frontier models, including NVIDIA Cosmos and Nemotron, and foundational knowledge including computer-aided design, product lifecycle management, simulation software, and IT and operational technology systems. Building on the FOX blueprint enables the ecosystem to build industrial agents that monitor factory operations in real time.
Siemens and Industrial Implementations
Siemens is integrating agents built using FOX into Intelligence Center X, its agentic enterprise system, to help identify root causes and coordinate factory operations, for estimated cost savings of 20%. Siemens’ Process Preparation X agents use NVIDIA Cosmos Data Factory tools and skills to generate defect images for circuit-board inspection. At its Erlangen electronics factory, Siemens used this approach to reduce calibration time of inspection processes by 40%.
Accelerating Engineering From the First Design
NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries accelerate simulation, giving engineers faster feedback to explore design alternatives before committing to physical prototypes. At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA is releasing cuDSS for general availability, accelerating the demanding calculations behind the complex simulations of structural stress, fluid flow, electromagnetic fields, and semiconductor device behavior.
Mercedes-Benz uses Siemens’ Simcenter STAR-CCM+ running on NVIDIA GPUs to compare vehicle designs through faster aerodynamic simulations. In factories, the company applies NVIDIA Cosmos 3 and the Metropolis VSS blueprint to build agents for vehicle inspection and windshield assembly verification, detecting deviations and ensuring consistently high quality.
Semiconductor and Aerospace Advancements
Imec and Infineon are accelerating semiconductor simulation with Synopsys software and NVIDIA accelerated computing. Benchmarks of S-Litho on imec’s model show up to 40x speedup, while Infineon uses Sentaurus Device with NVIDIA CUDA libraries to achieve a 12x speedup in 3D breakdown simulation for next-generation power devices. Leonardo is working with Neural Concept on AI-driven aircraft design, tapping NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to bring aircraft geometry and aerodynamic simulation results together.
Digital Twins and Robotics Simulation
NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac libraries enable digital twins and robotics simulation, helping manufacturers evaluate production systems and robot behavior before making changes on the factory floor. Audi uses a battery-production digital twin built with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to test production concepts before physical equipment is available. The company is also working with Dassault Systèmes and Agile Robots to simulate and validate mobile humanoid robots and logistics processes in DELMIA virtual twins built with Omniverse libraries.
Schaeffler is integrating digital twins of its humanoid actuators with NVIDIA Isaac simulation frameworks, helping robotics partners evaluate component behavior in simulation and reduce physical testing. Wandelbots uses NOVA with Isaac Sim, built on Omniverse and OpenUSD, to validate assembly workflows digitally and prepare applications for physical robots.
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- NVIDIA BlogEurope’s Industrial Leaders Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing With NVIDIA
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