Innovation at the forefront of the manufacturing Metaverse
Summary
The need comes from certain challenges that tend to hit the manufacturing industry particularly hard, such as supply chain disruptions, labour shortages and surging energy prices. A major proof point for this is in Hexagon’s accelerator-like platform Sixth Sense putting the Metaverse centre stage for its latest cohort. Of the eight start-ups involved this year, many already see the Metaverse as the key to unlocking their technology’s future potential and have been handpicked for their ability to apply this innovation in very different areas. As the industry’s post-pandemic labour shortage persists, and a limited workforce is required to perform increasingly diverse tasks, Metaverse-enabled ultra-immersive training will help create more generalists with greater job efficacy and satisfaction.” The optimisation of computing inefficiencies through AI enables the data-driven insights that make the Metaverse both possible and useful, becoming an immersive experience that will soon be critical to manufacturers. According to the Head of Manufacturing Insights EMEA at IDC, sustainability will play a crucial role in the next stage of Industry 4.0 in the form of hyper-realistic digital replicas of factories, products and processes but face challenges such as the immense computing power required for updating representations in the Metaverse with realistic and real-time changes.