Introducing Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer

By Charles Aldave and Enzo Krka

Today, we’re excited to announce that Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer is now available, delivering on our promise to transform how companies visualize and interact with complex digital models directly within Teamcenter.

Powered by NVIDIA Omniverse APIs, Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer represents a significant leap forward in PLM-based visualization, bringing real-time ray tracing capabilities directly into Teamcenter to enable companies to seamlessly visualize and interact with photorealistic, physics-based digital twins of their products. It allows for detailed, physically based visualization of datasets common in engineering and manufacturing, from microprocessors to marine vessels, ultimately helping companies accelerate product development cycles and reduce errors.

Curious about the Industrial Metaverse and how NVIDIA helps us deliver exceptional performance, photorealistic visuals and unmatched fidelity? Learn more about our partnership!

Incorporating photorealism into the product lifecycle

With Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer, customers can leverage their investment in a PLM digital thread backbone to incorporate photorealism into their multi-CAD data, adding greater fidelity and context to their digital twin and surrounding scenes. This capability adds depth and context to digital twins and enhances every stage of the product lifecycle.

With Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer, customers can:

Seamlessly incorporate real-world product appearances throughout the design process, enabling visualization of design changes and their impact on overall product aesthetics. This real-time feedback loop helps teams iterate faster and make more informed decisions earlier in the development cycle.
Rapidly validate product appearance in multiple contexts, from factory floors and intended use environments to showrooms and artistic environments. Companies can evaluate products under various lighting conditions and in different physical settings, helping to ensure the design meets both functional and aesthetic requirements.
Generate high-quality product visualizations directly from existing Teamcenter data, eliminating the need for separate photo shoots or specialized rendering software. This helps reduce time-to-market for marketing materials while ensuring alignment with the actual product design.
Conduct thorough design and styling reviews directly within the Teamcenter environment, leveraging real-time collaboration tools while maintaining a complete record of all feedback and changes. All stakeholders can participate effectively in the review process, regardless of their location.
Perform detailed visual analysis of complex assemblies, examining everything from surface finishes to material interactions under various lighting conditions. This is particularly valuable for identifying potential issues with reflective surfaces and color matching.

Features that drive performance and collaboration

Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer was designed to bring the power of photorealistic visualization to industrial manufacturers and enable seamless visualization and analysis of large, complex datasets – directly from Teamcenter. Let’s take a closer look at some of the key features.

High-performance photorealistic rendering: Real-time ray tracing, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, delivers high-quality physically based visualization directly in your browser. You can switch to different backgrounds and environments and observe real-time changes in lighting and shading, and its effects on surface properties and material interactions.

PLM-driven visualization: Performance driven visualization capabilities enable you to seamlessly visualize, navigate, and analyze your photorealistic BOM. You can navigate expansive, complex datasets and analyze photorealistic products that are directly linked to their loaded BOM.

Instant photorealism: A cloud-based rendering service is embedded directly within the Teamcenter web client, providing immediate access to powerful photorealistic visualization capabilities through your web browser. This architecture eliminates the need for local high-performance hardware while ensuring consistently high performance across all users, on-demand.

Connected to your digital thread backbone: This capability is embedded in Teamcenter, meaning your teams can conduct detailed design and styling reviews using photorealistic visualization without switching applications, and while maintaining complete traceability of all feedback, discussions, and changes within your system of record. You also have access to other advanced visualization, analysis, and collaboration capabilities available in Teamcenter’s embedded digital mockup (DMU) environment.

Rendering as a service, on-demand, hosted in Siemens’ secure cloud-based environment

Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer provides rendering as a service, allowing customers to access high-performance visualization capabilities on demand without the burden of managing the hardware and software enabling these capabilities.

It operates through a multi-tier architecture that combines the power of NVIDIA’s technology with Siemens’ secure cloud infrastructure.
It’s built on NVIDIA’s end-to-end AI and accelerated computing platform, integrating NVIDIA Omniverse for real-time ray tracing with NVIDIA accelerated computing for on-demand compute capabilities.
All services are hosted within the secure Siemens Xcelerator Cloud Service environment, which is fully managed and maintained by Siemens.
A centralized, cloud-based GPU cluster ensures consistent, high-performance visualization capabilities for all users, on-demand.

Visualize your large scale, photorealistic digital twin in Teamcenter, today

Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer brings high-quality, high-performance photorealistic visualization, directly in Teamcenter. By bringing together Teamcenter’s comprehensive capabilities for PLM with NVIDIA Omniverse and accelerated computing, we’re helping customers to supercharge their product development workflows and eliminate workflow waste and errors. Contact us today to learn more about how your organization can benefit from Teamcenter Digital Reality Viewer.

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