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11/21/202411/21/2024

DataMesh FactVerse 7.2 Updates: Build a Digital Twin Factory That Works, Not Just Looks

Ever wondered if your digital twin factory could go beyond being “just a fancy showcase”? With the industrial metaverse platform FactVerse, your factory can be more than “good-looking”—it can be “smart-working,” empowering business scenarios with enhanced intelligence and efficiency.

Using FactVerse, you can rapidly create 1:1 digital twin scenes, connect them to real-time production and IoT data, and integrate AI and ML technologies for proactive monitoring and large-scale simulations. From transparent factories to smart maintenance and production optimization, FactVerse enables enterprises to boost efficiency and unlock value through digital twins.

FactVerse offers a template-based, LEGO-like approach to digital twin creation, eliminating the need for complex custom development. Its extensive template library and industry-specific downloadable content (DLC) enable users to quickly design tailored applications for dynamic business scenarios. Besides, the platform integrates seamlessly with XR technology, ensuring scalability and ongoing optimization.

Drag and Drop to Build a Digital Twin Scenario of a Production Line

The latest FactVerse 7.2 updates make creating intelligent, connected business scenarios simpler and more efficient than ever.

Key Highlights of the Update

Simpler Scenario Design: FactVerse Designer now offers a more streamlined user experience for detailed production line simulations.
More Efficient Scenario Creation: DataMesh Director introduces the “Storyline” feature, simplifying the creation of large-scale 3D scenarios for exhibitions and operational guides.
Enhanced Digitalization of Building Maintenance: DataMesh Inspector improves Revit-native material support for faster and smoother BIM model integration, expediting the digital experience creation for real-time monitoring and maintenance.
Immersive Training Modules: DataMesh Simulator adds a new crawler excavator module for hands-on learning to help more operators.
Expanded Learning Resources: FactVerse Hands-on Lab provides new tutorials and resources to accelerate user mastery of digital twin technologies.

With its focus on TEMS (Training, Experience, Monitoring, and Simulation), FactVerse empowers enterprises to innovate and drive efficiency in their digital transformation journey.

For more details on this round of updates, please read on.

FactVerse Designer: Smarter, Easier Scenario Creation

As a core tool in the FactVerse platform, FactVerse Designer offers robust features to streamline scenario creation. Key enhancements in the 7.2 update include:

Upgraded Behavior Tree Editor: Redesigned for intuitive node management, simplified configurations, and efficient creation of complex behavior trees. New location-based editing and batch operations enhance productivity.
Enhanced Scene Building: Features like QR code scanning and anchor-based positioning enable precise projection of digital twin scenes into real-world environments. Improved scene base maps and batch creation tools boost efficiency.
New Logistics DLC: A downloadable content pack for warehouse logistics and inventory management simulations supports interactive data analysis for smart logistics scenarios.

DataMesh Director: Streamlined 3D Scenario Creation

DataMesh Director optimizes 3D MR scene creation and training content development for diverse business scenarios:

New Storyline Feature (Beta): A visual tool to simplify the creation of complex, multi-branch scenarios, ideal for exhibitions and operational guides. Supports multi-threaded collaboration to reduce production time. Scenario reusability lowers costs and enhances maintainability.
Optimized Model Preprocessing: Upgraded material editing tools in DataMesh Importer offer precise adjustments. Compatibility insights for Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 ensure optimal performance.
Improved Playback Experience: The DataMesh One app now supports anchor-based positioning for precise AR mapping, eliminating the need for printed QR codes.

DataMesh Inspector: Optimized for Building Mixed-Reality Scenes

DataMesh Inspector leverages BIM and mixed reality technologies to enhance building and facility maintenance:

Improved Revit Material Support: Enhanced visualization for Revit-native materials provides greater detail and realism in architectural models.
Smoother Loading Experience: Upgraded loading mechanisms improve efficiency and stability for large-scale models.
Refined BIM Scene Creation: Enhanced workflows reduce costs with predictive time estimates and fault-tolerance strategies.

DataMesh Simulator: Advanced Training and Collaboration

DataMesh Simulator delivers immersive training experiences across diverse scenarios:

New Excavator Module: Crawler excavator training modules simulate real operations, improving learning outcomes while reducing costs.
Collaborative Drills Simulation: Multi-role emergency response scenarios simulate cross-department collaboration, enhancing teamwork in critical situations.

Hands-on Lab: Learn Digital Twin Technologies Faster

The FactVerse Hands-On Lab provides free resources to help users master digital twin technologies and create robust business logic in their scenarios. New tutorials include:

Inspector: Tutorials such as “Building Digital Twin Scenarios Quickly” and “Adding Business Relationships to Building Models” teach users how to visualize BIM designs and interact with facilities.
Director: Courses like “Creating 3D Scenarios for Car Launches” demonstrate how to create scenarios for marketing and branding applications, including automotive showcases.
Designer: Intermediate tutorials like “Visualizing Work Progress Bars” and “Adding Business Data to Digital Twins” help users simulate complex scenarios and refine behavior trees.

Guided by a design philosophy centered on enterprise motivations, FactVerse integrates XR, AI, and spatial computing technologies to accelerate digital transformation, address complex challenges, and advance ESG and sustainability goals.

11/05/202411/06/2024

Collaboration Between JTC & DataMesh: Advancing Construction Efficiency with Digital Twin and Mixed Reality

In May 2023, JTC successfully introduced DataMesh Director, a digital twin platform by DataMesh, to empower frontline personnel through the integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) data with mixed reality (MR) technology on construction sites. This project aims to enhance efficiency by improving the visualisation and understanding of complex processes.

Discover how DataMesh Director was used to elevate construction sequences in this video

Project Overview

The collaboration between DataMesh and JTC led to the implementation of DataMesh Director, enabling the rapid creation of 3D construction processes. The platform uses digital twin and MR technology to turn BIM/CIM models into practical, real-time applications on construction sites, allowing workers to better visualise their tasks, understand project requirements, and improve overall workflow.

Figure 1: Confirming the construction sequence of the reinforced inclined beam using MR technology at the Pan Island Expressway construction site

Empowering Frontline Workers with Mixed Reality

A key benefit of using MR technology on construction sites is its ability to help frontline workers visualise tasks in both virtual and physical spaces. This is especially important in Singapore, where many construction workers come from countries like Bangladesh and face language barriers. MR technology empowers these workers to:

Visualise Complex Processes: Workers can gain a clearer understanding of the construction sequence and their specific roles by viewing 3D models and simulations directly at the site.
Improve Communication: MR technology overcomes language barriers, enabling workers to follow instructions effectively and understand project requirements from management.
Enhance Safety: Safety guidelines are presented in real-time, ensuring workers stay in safe zones and avoid risks, such as the lifting of beams.

Through the integration of DataMesh Director and MR technology, this project has set a new standard for improving productivity, communication, and safety on construction sites.

Figure 2: DataMesh Director construction sequence

Key Benefits of Using DataMesh Director for Construction Sequences

Enhanced Visualisation: With 3D visualisations of construction sequences, workers can follow complex instructions more easily, improving task execution accuracy and reducing errors.
Improved Communication: The platform effectively bridges language gaps, enabling workers to understand instructions and safety protocols, regardless of their native language.
Increased Efficiency: With a clear visual representation of the construction sequence, workers can perform tasks more efficiently, reducing the time spent on interpreting complex plans and avoiding rework.
Enhanced Safety: Real-time safety guidelines ensure that workers stay in safe zones and avoid dangerous situations, minimising the risk of accidents.
Real-Time Problem Solving: The integration of IoT data allows for real-time monitoring and adjustments. If any issues arise during the construction sequence, they can be identified and addressed immediately, reducing downtime and preventing costly rework.

By providing clear, interactive, and real-time visualisation of construction sequences, DataMesh Director has proven effective in enhancing the construction process on numerous customer projects across the Asia Pacific region.

Figure 3: DataMesh Director MR overview of hoisting construction sequence

DataMesh Director Capabilities: Facilitating the Digitalisation of Construction Workflows

DataMesh Director enables users to create 3D digital twin content easily through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface—similar to creating a PowerPoint presentation. The platform allows users to quickly leverage existing 3D assets, like CAD/BIM files, to build digital twins, improving the speed and efficiency of construction workflows. Key features include:

Ease of Creating Digital Twins: Quickly develop 3D digital twin content using existing assets, streamlining the content creation process.
IoT Data Binding: Seamlessly integrates with IoT devices for real-time data visualisation.
Remote Collaboration: Supports collaborative work environments, enabling multiple users to work together regardless of location.
Cross-Platform Content Publishing: One-click publishing makes it easy to share content across various platforms.
AI Support: Integrates FactVerse AI (FAI), a generative AI tool, for the effortless creation of multi-language scenarios based on enterprise digital twin data.
Mixed Reality Ready: Deploys to AR/MR-capable devices like iPhones, iPads, Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3, and compatible Android devices with a single click.

This powerful platform enables the creation of job SOPs, support guides, 3D product manuals, and real-time equipment monitoring, significantly enhancing the efficiency and experience of frontline workers. Beyond construction, DataMesh Director is also valuable for aftersales support, marketing, exhibitions, training, and more.

08/30/202408/30/2024

Accelerating Industrial Metaverse: FactVerse Updates August 2024

The future of the industrial metaverse is arriving faster than ever! DataMesh has rolled out significant updates to its FactVerse platform, introducing valuable enhancements and optimizing performance for frontline business scenarios. These updates help enterprises integrate digital twin technology into their operations more efficiently, driving progress toward intelligent manufacturing, smart maintenance, and sustainable development.

Let’s explore the latest developments across the FactVerse product suite.

Designer: Efficient Creation of Large-Scale Digital Twin Scenes

FactVerse Designer now enables the efficient creation of large-scale digital twin scenes, particularly for scenarios like data centers and equipment management, significantly reducing development time. Users can export digital twin template data, make bulk modifications in Excel, and import it back into Designer to update digital twin content with just one click.

Additionally, the new scene recording feature allows users to document the scene’s operations and review the digital twin’s status and data changes during playback. This helps in comparing different operational strategies for optimized decision-making. The newly added object locking feature prevents accidental changes, while the enriched behavior tree node library, optimized loading process, and one-click multi-language translation further enhance the efficiency of scene creation and content development.

Director: Upgraded Training Mode and One-Click Multi-Language Translation

The current version of DataMesh Director is fully integrated with the former DataMesh Learn solution, introducing a training mode and features like one-click multi-language scenario generation. As a leading no-code 3D and XR content creation platform, Director simplifies equipment operation training, saving time and costs.

The upgraded training mode offers full-cycle management, personalized course customization, and progress tracking, making training management more convenient and efficient. With FactVerse AI (FAI), users can translate scenarios with one click, making them globally applicable, thus preventing resource waste and meeting the multi-language needs of multinational enterprises.

The latest version also improves the application experience on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3, enhancing interactivity and visual effects.

One-Click Multi-Language Scenario Creation

Inspector: Mixed Reality Inspection and Equipment Business Logic Support

The gateway to the industrial metaverse, DataMesh Inspector, is now updated to version 1.2. This update allows for the rapid creation of digital twins for daily maintenance equipment using FactVerse templates and importing standardized equipment business logic and detailed component information, significantly reducing content creation time.

This updated version supports importing and exporting relationship structures based on Brick Schema, enabling maintenance engineers to intuitively view equipment systems’ connections, hierarchical structures, and operational statuses in a mixed reality environment. This reduces troubleshooting difficulty, improves efficiency, and enhances compliance with green building standards, safeguarding cross-border operational compliance for enterprises.

Intuitive Viewing of Equipment Business Logic Relationships in Mixed Reality

Simulator: More Flexible and Immersive Training Experience

DataMesh Simulator 2.2 is now fully integrated with DataMesh Learn, offering a one-stop training solution based on digital twin technology, suitable for industries such as heavy machinery, mining, special vehicles, and aircraft manufacturing, as well as educational institutions.

Learn’s training group management and personalized learning path features increase the flexibility and efficiency of the learning process, providing multi-dimensional, systematic learning management for instructors. The upgraded environmental simulation now includes various weather and environmental conditions, further helping trainees improve practical skills through more practice opportunities.

*Weather Module Supports Various Environmental Conditions*

FactVerse SDK: Enhanced Performance and Developer Support

FactVerse SDK has been upgraded to version 7.0, now compatible with the FactVerse platform and Director 7.0. The new version features an updated rendering engine to URP, improving rendering efficiency and effects, and supporting cross-platform applications. New examples of binding digital twin attributes allow developers to monitor real-time changes in digital twin properties, facilitating customized feature development. The overall SDK import process has also been optimized, enabling developers to quickly start creating digital twin applications, thus enhancing work efficiency.

Get FactVerse SDK

Hands-On Lab: Chinese, English, and Japanese Editions Launched

The FactVerse Hands-On Lab has been fully revamped, now supporting courses in Chinese, English, and Japanese. The lab’s three sites respectively offer a wealth of learning resources covering the latest industrial business scenarios, designed to help global users quickly learn, practice, and master digital twin content creation skills. These new learning resources are aligned with users’ long-term development needs, ensuring that learners can apply their acquired knowledge and skills to real-world tasks as quickly as possible.

Join FactVerse Hands-On Lab

*Hands-On Lab Offers Extensive Practice Courses*

FactVerse’s core product design philosophy focuses on enterprise motivation principles, continuously addressing users’ latest business needs and industry trends while integrating cutting-edge technologies such as XR, spatial computing, and AI into digital twin solutions. Through these innovative capabilities, FactVerse helps enterprises accelerate their digital twin transformation and achieve ESG and sustainable development goals.

08/26/202408/26/2024

Inspector 1.2 Released: Uncover Hidden Building and Facility Information for Smart Management with Mixed Reality

Imagine an operations engineer seeing through walls and floors, viewing hidden pipes, wiring, and structural components—all using just a tablet or smartphone. This isn’t science fiction; it’s the reality enabled by DataMesh Inspector.

DataMesh Inspector is an innovative mixed reality and digital twin-based inspection tool designed to transform building and facility maintenance. The application allows engineers to overlay large BIM models and real-time IoT data directly onto physical sites using mobile devices, giving them “X-ray-like” vision to view building structures and facility relationships—significantly enhancing maintenance efficiency and accuracy.

*Hidden structures and behind-the-wall (ceiling) information accessible through mixed reality*

DataMesh Inspector 1.2 is now available. Click here to download and experience it.

Key Features of Inspector 1.2:

Quick Scene Creation: FactVerse’s templates and user-friendly interface enable rapid creation of digital twins and business logic for equipment newly added. Creating digital scenes has never been easier, saving significant time.
Dynamic Loading: Cloud-based dynamic processing and loading technology supports real-time loading of massive building and facility data across mobile devices, based on user movements. No need to worry about device performance with large data volumes.
Mixed Reality Integration: Users can overlay BIM models and IoT data, such as temperature, humidity, and energy consumption, onto the real world. This provides intuitive views of internal structures, equipment locations, and operational statuses, streamlining troubleshooting.
Information & Relationships Inspection: Standardized semantic descriptions of device relationships help users easily understand system connections, hierarchical structures, pipeline routes, and the impact of faults, ensuring fast and accurate fault localization.
Standards Compliance: FactVerse supports the Brick Schema for importing and exporting relationship structures, ensuring high compliance with green building standards in regions like Singapore.
Multi-Device Support: Inspector is compatible with tablets and smartphones, meeting various scenario needs.

Additionally, experience and knowledge can be transformed into 3D content and projected into mixed reality scenes, allowing maintenance engineers—even those with limited expertise—to quickly grasp equipment information, such as operational statuses and maintenance procedures, enabling rapid and accurate decision-making.

Tap on devices to view real-time operational data

How Inspector Assists in Fault Troubleshooting:

A maintenance engineer receives an order or system alert (which can be directly pushed through Inspector).
Upon arriving at the site, the engineer launches Inspector and scans the location code to immediately project the MR scene onto the fault area.
In MR mode, the engineer views digital twins and real-time operational data of the equipment and facilities, performing an initial fault assessment.
The engineer checks the business logic connections, control ranges, and impact scopes of the facilities, pinpointing key issues.

Business logic relationships between devices are clear in MR, aiding on-site diagnostics

The engineer consults maintenance documentation within Inspector to further analyze and confirm the fault, then fills out the maintenance work order.
The engineer uploads the data, fault causes, and other information collected on-site to the system via Inspector, completing the entire process from fault reporting to MR-assisted inspection, troubleshooting, and subsequent repair.

Use Case: Air Conditioning Troubleshooting in an Office Building

Problem Discovery:
The property management team of an office building received a tenant complaint about a lack of cool air from an air conditioning vent. Maintenance engineer Mr. Wang was dispatched to investigate.

On-Site MR Inspection:
Upon arrival, Wang launched Inspector to locate potential fault points with mixed reality, checking the FCU controller and air conditioning distribution box above the ceiling. These components are typically difficult to inspect directly, but with Inspector’s MR mode, Wang could clearly identify their actual positions and statuses.

Fault Localization in MR Mode:

Wang tapped on the digital twins of the faulty equipment to view real-time data and quickly identified an abnormal temperature at the vent.
By further examining the device information and its relationships with other equipment, he realized that the vent was downstream of a fan coil unit (FCU) controlled by an FCU controller.
Wang checked the current operational data of the FCU controller and the fan coil unit in the MR scene, and noticed that FCU controller appeared to be functioning correctly, but the fan coil unit showed abnormal cooling capacity, leading Wang to suspect an issue with the fan coil unit.
Further inspection revealed a circuit breaker issue with the fan coil unit, preventing the FCU controller from controlling it, thus identifying the root cause of the fault.

Document-Aided Analysis:
To confirm the problem, Wang accessed relevant technical documents directly within Inspector and obtained the standard repair procedure for such issues.

Work Order Submission:
Finally, Wang recorded the fault details and suggested solutions in the work order and uploaded it to the system, completing the fault diagnosis in significantly less time than traditional methods, ensuring a smooth repair process.

In this case, and many others, DataMesh Inspector helps maintenance engineers efficiently locate fault causes and assess their impact, allowing them to develop targeted repair plans—reducing the time required for fault diagnosis and resolution, accelerating the repair process, and enhancing overall building and facility availability. Ultimately, this improves tenant and owner satisfaction with the building.

Inspector is evolving to further solidify its role as a crucial entry point into the FactVerse industrial metaverse platform. With its constantly expanding application scenarios, Inspector delivers long-term value for building and facility maintenance management and on-site data insights, driving the construction and building industry towards digitalization and intelligence.

Learn more about DataMesh Inspector here.

12/27/202312/27/2023

DataMesh Inspector 1.1 Releases, Enhancing Collaboration and MR Experience in AEC

Today, DataMesh released Inspector 1.1, introducing innovative features to deliver outstanding mixed reality experiences for the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) sector. Focused on streamlining and optimizing visualization, on-site collaboration, and resource management, Inspector empowers construction and engineering professionals to achieve higher project execution efficiency throughout the AEC lifecycle.

Inspector, a cutting-edge inspection and maintenance toolkit powered by digital twin and mixed reality, can overlay large-scale BIM models and other real-time data onto the work site through augmented reality (AR). It visualizes digital twin data in the real world and enables fast inspection throughout the entire lifecycle of buildings and facilities. As a gateway to the industrial metaverse FactVerse, Inspector efficiently conveys business knowledge to frontline workers through immersive interactive methods.

Dynamically loads large-scale BIM data onto the site, empowering engineering acceptance with AR to verify planning and actual construction

Streamlining On-site Collaboration with Enhanced Annotations

Inspector 1.1 introduces enhanced collaborative annotation, allowing users to instantly view annotations like issue markers, inspection results, technical communications, and action plans added by team members during inspections or project walkthroughs. This feature significantly improves communication efficiency and provides robust process management tools for general contractors and subcontractors during the inspection of divisions and sections of projects.

View annotations within the building scene in browsing mode powered by mixed reality

With the upgraded collaborative annotation feature in Inspector 1.1, users can instantly view annotations added by other team members during the inspection process, such as issue markings, inspection results, technical communications, and action plans. This significantly improves communication efficiency, providing powerful process management tools for general contractors and various specialty contractors in the acceptance of subprojects.

Moreover, users can toggle between work scenarios with a single click by enabling/disabling browsing mode: In browsing mode, all annotation information is presented as pop-ups in the building scene. Users can review the information within the scene, visually inspect annotation descriptions and on-site photos, compare them with the standard practices represented by the BIM model, and engage in business communication through annotation messaging; When browsing mode is turned off, users can control a joystick to freely inspect component engineering information. They can overlay the BIM model onto the actual site for comparative viewing based on augmented reality (AR) mode.

Seamless Cloud Resource Integration for Enhanced On-site Work

Furthermore, Inspector 1.1 optimizes resource viewing strategies, enabling users to easily access 2D/3D resources from the cloud anytime, anywhere, enhancing the user experience. Users can showcase reference resources to specified locations or 3D models in the scene without the cumbersome process of file searching. This addresses the needs of construction sites for reviewing and presenting relevant reference resources during design reviews, design briefings, and acceptance processes.

Users can also associate annotation tasks with corresponding building scenes in FactVerse Services, facilitating rapid viewing and management of annotation entries and exporting annotations in chart format. This module also supports exporting structured data from the processes of building acceptance and construction communication, meeting the Common Data Environment (CDE) requirements in various regions. The comprehensively optimized component operation panel provides a more intuitive view of BIM data information, enabling users to clearly annotate specific components during the acceptance process. The newly added messaging feature allows teams to provide timely feedback on annotations.

Connecting 2D/3D resources from the cloud to the scene projected on-site

Advancing Cloud Resource Processing and Data Access Optimization

Concurrently, FactVerse has upgraded its ability to process building scene resource files. Users can now effortlessly convert original BIM resource files into Inspector-compatible format files with a single click in the cloud, streamlining processes like resource matching, file processing, large-scale model simplification, and scene construction, significantly reducing the complexity of the original toolchain and user operational costs. The newly added universal data format conversion capability allows users to apply BIM file format building scenes to the entire DataMesh product family. Users can also convert imported model resources into formats such as FBX over the cloud, with configurable model optimization available during the process for maximum resource utilization.

Additionally, FactVerse Services now supports data connectivity between the FactVerse platform and Autodesk BIM 360, enabling users to quickly import cloud resources from BIM 360 into the FactVerse resource library and apply them to the DataMesh platform. The integration of FactVerse with other engineering industry cloud platforms facilitates data interoperability, helping a range of users reduce operational costs and fully capitalize on their own cloud assets.

As a gateway to the industrial metaverse platform FactVerse, DataMesh Inspector is committed to enhancing the efficiency and MR experience of construction operations and maintenance in the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction. It achieves this through an innovative 3D+MR visualization of the entire building process, enabling cloud-enabled data in the engineering industry and empowering the entire building lifecycle.

DataMesh Inspector 1.1 is now available on the Apple App Store. Feel free to install and experience it today. For any queries, please contact service@datamesh.com.

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