Mercedes-Benz is partnering with tech firm NavVis to create digital twins of its manufacturing crops.
The cloud-based manufacturing facility pictures and ground plans will permit the automaker to share info between planning, meeting or facility administration groups to simulate manufacturing line adjustments or different course of enhancements, in response to a press launch.
The digital replicas permit Mercedes-Benz staff and companions to take measurements and mark essential places, appearing because the “first touchpoint for all of the individuals concerned in manufacturing facility planning,” NavVis CEO and co-founder Felix Reinshagen stated in an announcement.
“We’re continually engaged on enhancing our manufacturing strains, however to do this it’s a must to know what the plant at the moment seems like,” Oliver Geissel, head of digitalization of manufacturing planning at Mercedes-Benz, stated within the announcement.
“Now, our staff and companions can navigate by the digital model of the plant and simply carry out duties comparable to simulating new layouts and optimizing obtainable house from their gadgets — with out ever stepping foot contained in the precise plant,” Geissel stated.
Based in 2013, Germany-based NavVis operates in 4 international locations, together with Germany, the U.Okay., China and the U.S.
Mercedes-Benz is becoming a member of different automakers in utilizing digital twins to reinforce manufacturing operations.
Final 12 months, BMW introduced that it will create a digital twin of every of its crops worldwide, additionally partnering with NavVis to finish the digitization course of.
Tesla, in the meantime, is understood to create a digital twin of each automotive it manufactures. As well as, the EV maker has used digital twins to create digital fashions of energy crops and mannequin the recreation of {the electrical} grid within the age of different power sources.
