Logistics planners at BMW’s Plant Spartanburg are designing layouts in the virtual world, with visibility of how changes would impact production and worker movements.
In preparing BMW’s Spartanburg, South Carolina plant for new model and electric vehicle production, the carmaker’s logistics team will be able to design material flow and parts handling processes in a more dynamic way than ever before. BMW has worked with 3D scanning specialist NavVis to digitally scan its worldwide factories, capturing detailed data points across facilities. It has also partnered with computing and graphics specialist Nvidia to input this data into its Omniverse tool to create an entirely virtual landscape of plants, which uses AI to help plan and predict impacts from changes in layout or operations.
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