Transforming Industrial Visualization: The Siemens and NVIDIA Collaboration

In today’s industrial landscape, modern products are engineered with millions of intricate components, and as such, the challenge of managing this complexity has intensified. Traditional visualization tools often fall short of delivering the level of realism necessary for fully exploiting digital twins, which are vital for the digital transformation of manufacturing processes.

To tackle these mounting challenges, Siemens and NVIDIA have stepped forward to accelerate AI in manufacturing and fast-track product development. Their collaboration integrates NVIDIA’s advanced real-time ray tracing and accelerated computing capabilities directly into Siemens Teamcenter, a leading product lifecycle management (PLM) platform. This innovative integration marks a significant leap forward in visualizing complexity.

Introducing Siemens Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer

The heart of this collaboration is the Siemens Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer, a cloud-based solution that provides photorealistic visualizations of large, complex engineering data. It empowers organizations to interact with digital twins of their products, a crucial advancement for unlocking industrial digitalization and the application of Physical AI in manufacturing sectors.

For developers, this integration outlines a comprehensive approach to building scalable, photorealistic digital twins that automatically sync with live engineering data. As a result, design, review, and collaboration processes are significantly enhanced, allowing engineering teams to operate more efficiently within an engaging, interactive simulated environment.

Key Technological Features

Siemens Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer harnesses advanced NVIDIA technologies to deliver exceptional, real-time visualization directly within the PLM environment. Here are some significant features:

• RTX Technology and OpenUSD: NVIDIA Omniverse offers physically accurate rendering and collaborative capabilities for intricate infrastructure assemblies, ensuring interoperability across high-fidelity visualization workflows.
• Dynamic GPU Allocation: The Siemens Xcelerator Cloud Service utilizes NVIDIA GPUs (like A10 and L4) to provide scalable and secure cloud-based visualization tailored for industrial applications.
• Accelerated Computing: Powered by CUDA, NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack facilitates highly accurate, physics-based simulations alongside GPU-accelerated streaming for digital twin and automation workflows.
• Custom Workflow Support: The Omniverse Kit SDK allows for custom workflows and integration with enterprise systems, catering to unique operational requirements.

Streamlined Pipeline for Scalable Twin Visualization

Export and Conversion

Siemens Teamcenter facilitates the export of product assemblies in JT format, specifically designed for visualization, collaboration, and data exchange. To maintain data fidelity, Siemens has developed a JT-to-USD converter that translates JT files into OpenUSD format while preserving essential CAD data, materials, and assembly hierarchy.

Data Interoperability

With OpenUSD, engineering, simulation, and metadata from both Siemens Teamcenter and third-party sources are integrated into a unified framework. This ensures data consistency and integrity throughout the product lifecycle, particularly critical for managing complex assemblies and large datasets. This seamless integration eliminates discrepancies and shortens product development cycles.

Scene Composition and Rendering

The Omniverse Kit SDK is instrumental in constructing intricate 3D scenes. It organizes objects and their relationships into a coherent scene graph utilizing OpenUSD, allowing developers to create tools for processing USD data and managing automated tasks effectively.

API Integration and Automation

Siemens Teamcenter’s REST APIs enable developers to initiate rendering jobs, automate digital twin updates, and manage access rights. This functionality encompasses aspects like the bill of materials, change management, configurations, and security—ensuring seamless integration with NVIDIA-managed features.

Cloud Streaming

Omniverse utilizes WebRTC technology to establish direct peer-to-peer connections between the server and the client’s browser. This approach dramatically reduces latency while maintaining high-quality streaming for real-time digital twin interactions. Frames are rendered efficiently in the browser, allowing for high-fidelity visuals across various devices.

Getting Started with Omniverse

If you’re eager to explore this frontier in digital twin visualization, begin your journey by accessing the Omniverse Kit SDK on the NGC Catalog. A wealth of resources is available, including tutorials, learning courses, and on-demand videos.

• Tutorials:
  • Embedded Web Viewer: Discover how an Omniverse Kit application can efficiently stream to a front-end web client.
  • Web RTC Browser Client: Learn to leverage new WebRTC live-streaming Extensions to stream any Omniverse application to web browsers.
• Learning Courses: Delve into detailed courses that enhance your understanding of the Omniverse framework.
• Siemens Teamcenter Insights: Gain valuable perspectives from NVIDIA GTC on-demand video presentations.

Don’t miss out! Watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote featuring NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at VivaTech 2025, and explore various GTC Paris sessions for in-depth insights.