BMW Group scales its Virtual Factory

2025-06-11 · Publisher : BMW Group · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

BMW Group industrializes its Virtual Factory: digital twins of more than 30 sites are used for production planning, with automated collision checks and planning costs projected to fall by up to 30%.

### Background On 11 June 2025, just before its presentation at NVIDIA GTC Paris, BMW Group announces the **industrialization of its Virtual Factory**: production planners work continuously in the digital twins of **more than 30 sites**. What used to require several weeks of physical modifications and testing is now simulated. ### Key facts - Twins built by linking building, equipment, logistics and vehicle data, up to 3D simulation of manual work steps. - Industrial metaverse application on NVIDIA Omniverse to optimize layouts, robotics and logistics systems in real time. - **Automated collision checks**: moving a new body through the lines is simulated in 3 days, versus nearly 4 weeks of physical tests, which sometimes required emptying the dip-coating tanks. - More than 40 new or updated vehicles to be integrated by 2027, virtually first. - Projected production planning cost reduction of **up to 30%** (carmaker projection). ### Why it matters It is one of the broadest factory twin deployments documented by a carmaker. For manufacturing engineering, the gains concern very concrete tasks (collisions, ergonomics, maps for automated transport) based on existing 3D scans and design data. ### Takeaway The factory digital twin moves from pilot to planners' daily tool, and BMW is gradually adding generative and agentic AI to it.

Tags : Jumeau numérique, Simulation, NVIDIA, Automobile, Planification