Build Smart and Sustainable Operations in Half the Time with Industrial AI
Modern industry is increasingly complex, driven by a push towards smart manufacturing, agile factory operations, and operational resilience. 3D UNIVERSES provide simplicity – a place where you can harmonize assets, clarify processes, and effortlessly generate new business models faster than ever before.
The Factory of the Future Will Be Virtual, but the Benefits in Performance Will Be Real
Global markets are more unpredictable today than ever. Every day, companies face new dimensions of risk, from geopolitical challenges to supply chain instability to shifting consumer expectations. Operating in these circumstances demands unparalleled resilience and flexibility.
For manufacturing decision-makers, however, this imperative is often at odds with the reality on the ground. Factories are complex environments, where even the smallest change can have a big impact on processes throughout your facilities and beyond. In a world where product lifecycles are getting ever shorter, and where the necessary skillsets are in short supply, legacy manufacturing systems can struggle to adapt at the required pace.
3D UNIVERSES Combine Knowledge of Factory, Process and Supply Chain for Truly Holistic Visibility
By uniting the virtual worlds of machine data, and the real world of your factory floor, 3D UNIVERSES serve as a unified space to orchestrates your manufacturing operations, where everything you need to deliver smart, agile, and knowledge-driven manufacturing operations is at your fingertips.
Through the seamless integration of AI, data, and generative user experiences, new approaches that combine the virtual and the real can be developed and delivered at the speed required to turn industrial operations from static process-based entities to the basis for truly agile and resilient businesses.
Up to 90%
faster numerical control creation
Up to 10x
faster Factory VT creation
Up to 50%
cost reductions through retrofitting
Leverage AI in Smart Manufacturing Operations With 3D UNIVERSES
By letting you instantly see how your operations are functioning, where they are lacking, and how issues can be addressed, 3D UNIVERSES help you shift the paradigm. You move from reactive to prescriptive management for every single task, work cell, assembly line and operational process in factories – providing a vital shortcut to resilient and circular V+R manufacturing operations.
Virtual Twin of the Factory:Visualize Raw Data and Clarify your Path to Transformation
Suppose you could visualize your factory in its totality, down to the last speck of dust: do you think you’d leave everything as is? Or do you think you’d start identifying processes that could be improved or machinery that could be optimized?
Opportunities abound. The problem is, we can’t always spot them.
The power of 3D UNIVERSES links together every virtual twin in your ecosystem, and connects these virtual models to real-world data, giving you 100% accurate, up-to-the-minute V+R insight into your operations, identifying areas for improvement with ease.
3D UNIVERSES also make it easier than ever to build those twins in the first place. Automated equipment detection can draw from a proprietary library of more than 2,000 models to scan your factory and populate it with relevant assets. A single data framework then brings all this information together into a holistic, interoperable whole, supporting digital factory virtualization and speeding up the creation of the Virtual Twin of the Factory by a factor of 10.
And with 3D UNIVERSES’ end-to-end connectivity, this twin can be instantly integrated into your existing operational network, helping you perform production line simulation and make better informed decisions about resource allocation, asset optimization, reshoring, and beyond.
A process that used to take weeks becomes a matter of a few days, letting you focus on the real value-driving work of managing your factory.
Virtual Twin of the Production System:Build the Knowledge-Powered Factory that Manages Itself
The factory of the future is intelligent. Whether you want to go full-on lights-out manufacturing, or just want to augment specific processes, 3D UNIVERSES are the enabler.
3D UNIVERSES take established knowledge and know-how – from the intangible best practices accumulated by manufacturing experts over a lifetime of service, to the technical specifics scattered across thousands of documents – and put that at the foundation of your operations, embedded in the Virtual Twin of the Production System and the Virtual Twin of the Manufacturing Process.
3D UNIVERSES can even facilitate training and lower the knowledge barrier to entry for a wider cohort of potential employees – all helping current talent go further.
They also help you embrace new innovations. Programming the necessary tool paths for complex geometrical shapes, for example, can be a time-consuming process. But with AI-driven NC programming, operators can generate recommendations and accelerate the creation of controls by up to 90%, while avoiding mistakes that could be dangerous to equipment or personnel.
More efficient production also means more sustainable production, helping reduce energy use, material waste, raw materials, transportation costs, and more: one customer reduced CO2 emissions by 50% by being able to better retrofit their operations via V+R virtual twins; another was able to reduce scrap by 39% in their steel-cutting operations.
From production automation to robotics optimization, the capabilities provided by the 3D UNIVERSES open up a limitless array of new options to drive value and efficiency – it’s just up to you to choose which path you want to take.
Virtual Twin of the Supply Chain:Reveal the Invisible to Expand the Horizon of Decision-Making
Markets fluctuate. Suppliers come and go. Technology gets outmoded.
In short, change is unavoidable. But adapting to it can mean having to answer multi-million-dollar questions, from what equipment you should buy to who your next partner should be. These are the calls that can make or break businesses and making them correctly relies on the complete understanding of your operations.
Within 3D UNIVERSES, you can connect the Virtual Twin of the Factory with both upstream assets like the Virtual Twin of the Product, as well as suppliers and distributors, allowing you to place manufacturing operations within their full industrial and commercial V+R context.
Industrial AI is then able to rapidly identify relationships between cause and effect that could be invisible to the naked eye. Surfacing trustworthy, hallucination-free insights within hours, rather than the weeks it might take a human analyst. The human stays in the driver’s seat, but the range of options to choose from has been broadened and the speed in which decisions can be reached significantly increased.
Once a decision has been reached, 3D UNIVERSES help you implement it at scale. For example, if you face materials shortages or need to switch to more sustainable inputs, products can be reformulated or redesigned, with new materials parameters integrated intelligently into the design processes, guaranteeing that products are performant, compliant, and 100% manufacturable.
If a factory is like an orchestra, then the role of the operator has traditionally been that of the conductor – keeping everything in time, keeping things working like they should. But with 3D UNIVERSES, you move from being the conductor to being the composer – creating new value and new outcomes, from a position of complete control.