Modern products often consist of millions of parts and require intricate design and collaboration. The industrial world is facing significant challenges in managing their complexity, with traditional visualization tools failing to render these large, multi-CAD assemblies with the true-to-life realism required to fully benefit from digital twins.
To address these struggles, Siemens and NVIDIA are accelerating AI in manufacturing and speeding up product development. As part of this effort, Siemens is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse advanced real-time ray tracing and accelerated computing capabilities directly into Siemens Teamcenter, an industry-leading product lifecycle management (PLM) platform.
This integration enables Siemens Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer, a cloud-based solution that delivers photorealistic visualizations of large and complex engineering data. It allows organizations to interact with digital twins of their own products, which is critical to unlocking industrial digitalization and Physical AI to manufacturing industries.
For developers, this integration offers a comprehensive outline for building scalable, photorealistic digital twins that seamlessly sync with live engineering data. This powerful combination enhances the design, review, and collaboration processes, enabling engineering teams to work more efficiently and effectively in a highly realistic and interactive simulated environment.
Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer integrates advanced NVIDIA technologies to deliver high-performance, real-time visualization within the PLM environment.
- NVIDIA Omniverse delivers physically accurate rendering and collaboration of complex infrastructure assemblies through RTX technology and OpenUSD, ensuring interoperability between high-fidelity visualization workflows.
- The Siemens Xcelerator Cloud Service dynamically allocates NVIDIA GPUs (such as A10 and L4) to provide scalable, secure, and cloud-based visualization for industrial applications.
- NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack, powered by CUDA, enables highly accurate, physics-based simulations and GPU-accelerated streaming for digital twin and automation workflows.
- The Omniverse Kit SDK supports custom workflows and integration with enterprise systems, enabling tailored solutions.
Together, these technologies allow teams to interact with large datasets to streamline collaboration and accelerate digital twin workflows without the need for physical prototypes or siloed virtual environments.
Pipeline for scalable twin visualization
Export and conversion
Siemens Teamcenter exports product assemblies in JT format for visualization, collaboration, and data exchange. Siemens developed its own JT-to-USD converter to translate JT files into OpenUSD format, preserving CAD data, materials, and assembly hierarchy.
Data interoperability
OpenUSD aggregates engineering, simulation, and metadata from Siemens Teamcenter and third-party sources into a unified framework, ensuring data consistency. This interoperability maintains data integrity throughout the product lifecycle, crucial for complex assemblies and large-scale datasets. The unified digital ecosystem enables a smooth data flow across platforms to eliminate discrepancies and reduce product development cycles.
Scene composition and rendering
Omniverse Kit SDK constructs detailed 3D scenes, organizing objects and their relationships into a cohesive scenegraph using OpenUSD. It enables developers to build tools that process USD data or perform other automated tasks.
API integration and automation
Siemens Teamcenter’s REST APIs allow developers to trigger rendering jobs, automate digital twin updates, and manage access control. Siemens uses these APIs to handle bill of materials, change management, configurations, USD files, access rights, and security—integrating seamlessly with NVIDIA-managed functionality.
Cloud streaming
Omniverse leverages WebRTC, which establishes a peer-to-peer connection between the server and the client’s browser. It ensures low-latency, high-quality streaming for real-time interaction with digital twins. Frames are rendered directly in the browser, maintaining high-fidelity visuals across devices.
Get started
Get started today with the Omniverse Kit SDK on NGC Catalog and learn more from Omniverse application tutorials, OpenUSD learning courses, and on-demand videos.
- Tutorials
- Embedded Web Viewer – Learn how an Omniverse Kit application can effectively stream to a front-end web client.
- Web RTC Browser Client – By leveraging the new WebRTC live-streaming Extensions, it is now possible to stream any Omniverse application to web browsers.
- Learning courses
- Creating and Customizing an Omniverse Extension – Use Kit App Template to create a custom Extension.
- Develop, Customize, and Publish in Omniverse With Extensions – Customize an Extension’s UI and functionality using Python.
- Learn OpenUSD – Gain foundational knowledge, explore essential concepts, and harness the full potential of OpenUSD .
- Learn more about Siemens Teamcenter [GTC on demand video]
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