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.
Simulator of Crawler Excavator

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.

DataMesh Simulator Introduces New Training Environments for Crawler Excavator Operations

Excavators play a vital role on modern construction sites, and an operator’s proficiency is key to ensuring project efficiency and quality. In response to this need, DataMesh Simulator has introduced innovative courseware for crawler excavator simulation-based training and assessments, expanding its range of training offerings. This new addition allows trainees to gain hands-on experience in a realistic simulated environment, significantly improving training efficiency while reducing costs.

Visual and Animated Guidance for Intuitive Learning

The courseware features engaging visual aids and animations throughout the training process, ensuring trainees fully grasp every operational detail, thereby enhancing engagement and comprehension.

Multi-Angle Operation for Comprehensive Skill Mastery

The training environment offers multiple perspectives—including rearview, third-person view, and cockpit view—providing an immersive experience that accurately simulates real excavator operations.

Real-Time Parameter Feedback for Enhanced Practicality

The intuitive touchscreen interface displays real-time machine parameters, such as gear position, RPM, water temperature, work mode, travel mode, and idle status, enriching the hands-on training experience.

Learning Management System to Boost Teaching Efficiency

Integrated with the DataMesh Learn learning management system, Simulator allows instructors to easily manage, share, store, and analyze various simulation training courseware and assessment results for different equipment and machinery. Instructors can also set specific training and assessment tasks, significantly improving teaching efficiency through tailored assignments.

Highly Realistic Models and Environments

Excavator and machinery models are meticulously designed to mirror selected reference machines in appearance, movement, and characteristics. Detailed attention to color, material, texture, lighting, and background ensures an exceptionally realistic experience.

Real-Time Rendering and Accurate Physical Simulation

Moreover, DataMesh Simulator provides real-time rendering of excavator and collaborating machinery models, ensuring synchronized visual and auditory experiences. Precise collision detection, interference checks, and coordinated motion simulation guarantee a safe and authentic training environment.

DataMesh Simulator currently offers a diverse range of simulation-based models, including rotary drilling rigs, tower cranes, and crawler excavators, with additional models in development. Stay tuned for updates! For product inquiries, purchases, or further information, please contact us at service@datamesh.com.

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.

Batch Creation of Digital Twins

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.

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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.

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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.

DataMesh Simulator 2.2 Released for Enhanced Immersive Training

We are thrilled to announce the release of DataMesh Simulator 2.2! This latest version of our motion simulation platform now integrates with DataMesh Learn, combining the functionalities of both offerings to create a truly immersive, digital twin-based simulation training experience. Designed for manufacturers of heavy machinery, mining equipment, special vehicles, aircraft, and vocational institutions, DataMesh Simulator provides comprehensive solutions for courseware creation, training, and assessment.

All-in-One Solution for Custom Teaching

DataMesh Simulator offers an all-in-one solution for courseware creation, training, and assessment. With FactVerse Designer, users can easily create digital twins and use behavior trees and built-in tools to design, set up, and adjust the operational logic of various scene elements. The drag-and-drop interface allows users to create and develop course content without needing a professional technical background.

Digital Twin Creation
Behavior Tree Editing

Streamlined Teaching with Enhanced Training Performance

The platform enables data-driven, digital twin-based simulation training by linking equipment mechanism data with courseware content. Instructors can customize the models students use, manage training groups flexibly, and easily create, modify, and manage courseware, enhancing the specificity and flexibility of teaching.

Personalized Learning Paths and Performance Tracking

DataMesh Simulator provides modules for tracking both individual and overall performance, offering a comprehensive view of students’ learning journeys. Instructors can use data analysis to adjust training strategies and optimize learning paths for efficient learning outcomes.

New Features for Easier Learning

The new version includes mode selection and historical performance query functions, allowing students to choose their learning modes and check their progress in real-time, enabling them to adjust their learning strategies as needed.

Learning Mode Choosing

Enhanced Environmental Simulation for Better Skill Building

DataMesh Simulator introduces a weather system that allows instructors and students to switch between different conditions, including sunny (default), night, cloudy, foggy, overcast, rain, thunderstorms, snow, and sandstorms. This feature enhances trainees’ practical skills in various environments.

Weather Mode Selection

With this update, DataMesh Simulator enhances training immersion and interactivity, making training more efficient and accurate through data analysis and personalized learning paths. This significantly improves learning efficiency for students while reducing training costs for enterprises and educational institutions.

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DataMesh Reshapes Tower Crane Training Experience with Simulator 2.1

Today, DataMesh Simulator 2.1 is released, introducing simulation-based training and assessment tailored for tower crane operations. This innovative motion simulation platform focuses on providing trainees with an authentic learning experience while operating tower cranes, through upgraded operational scenarios that faithfully replicate real equipment models, construction environments, and operational procedures.

1:1 Digital Twin of Construction Environment

Construction machinery models, including tower cranes and others within the Simulator, are meticulously crafted to mirror selected reference machines in appearance, movement, status, and characteristics.

Models undergo meticulous treatments in color, material, texture, lighting, and background to achieve a heightened sense of realism.

Real-time rendering of tower cranes and collaborating construction machinery models ensures seamless immersion in the virtual environment without visual or auditory delays, fostering an unparalleled sense of participation for users.

Rigorous collision detection, interference verification, and motion synchronization ensure the authenticity and integrity of the tower crane and other construction machinery models involved.

Authentic Operational Procedure Replication

Operational procedures are designed based on insights from experienced tower crane operators, integrating text, voice, signal commands, dynamic UI elements, and instructional videos at each training step. The crane hook offers multiple operational perspectives, including front and rear views, external views, and cabin views, enhance the training experience.

The system interface provides real-time monitoring of machine parameters, such as wind speed, rotation angle, lifting weight, trolley position, and hook distance from the ground.

The comprehensive curriculum resources bridge the gap between training and real-world operations, allowing trainees to familiarize themselves with common terminology and signal gestures used in actual construction scenarios. This immersive training approach facilitates practical application and offers tangible hands-on training benefits.

Immersive Learning Experience

Integrated with the DataMesh Learn system, the Simulator platform streamlines the management, sharing, storage, and analysis of various mechanical equipment simulation training materials and assessment results. Instructors can autonomously customize and distribute training and assessment tasks to enhance teaching effectiveness, making it the preferred choice for engineering machinery professionals. The tower crane simulator comprises the DataMesh Simulator system software and hardware platforms, offering features such as course play, operational training, assessment, personnel management, and learning management. Hardware options include six degrees of freedom motion platforms, three degrees of freedom motion platforms, and a basic non-motion platform, catering to diverse user needs.

DataMesh Simulator revolutionizes industrial training by providing an immersive and lifelike learning environment that significantly improves trainee engagement and learning outcomes. By enabling trainees to understand equipment operations safely and effectively, it mitigates safety risks and boosts training efficiency. For purchasing inquiries or further product information, please contact service@datamesh.com.

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DataMesh Unveils New Digital Twin-based Simulator Platform

DataMesh has announced the launch of DataMesh Simulator 2.0, an innovative platform designed to provide operators with an immersive learning experience. Based on digital twin and motion simulation technologies, it integrates equipment operation simulation training, job simulation training, and operational behavior assessment into a single platform, addressing key challenges in heavy machinery, mining equipment, specialized vehicles, aircraft, and more.

Traditional training in these fields often faces challenges such as training duration, cost, accessibility, safety, and weather dependencies, as it heavily relies on the availability of real equipment and physical environments. To overcome these challenges, many enterprises are turning to digital solutions to supplement their training activities.

DataMesh Simulator 2.0 features several key modules, including environmental simulation, mechanical simulation, practical training, and practical examinations. It effectively helps deal with limited training durations and environments on actual machines by allowing trainees to familiarize themselves with various types of engineering machinery before engaging with real equipment and environments. With DataMesh Simulator, users can practice extensively at any time, gaining operational skills and techniques while significantly improving training efficiency.

The platform creates a 1:1 replication of the real machine experience by combining the advantages of hardware and software. It includes a three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) or six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion platform, a dynamic simulation system, environment simulation, a simulated training cockpit, a motion control system, and front/left/right panoramic display screens with surround sound simulation systems. Additionally, it is equipped with software covering theoretical learning, cloud services, simulation, visualization, examination, signal acquisition, sound, and motion control systems. Together, these components create digital twins of the real working environment, enabling an effective alternative to traditional engineering equipment training methods.

For trainees, DataMesh Simulator allows them to fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements and the platform incorporates text prompts, guided animations, force feedback, and motion simulation within the teaching process. For trainers, such as training schools or enterprises, the platform enables them to develop diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment and provides flexibility to design comprehensive quantifiable indicators, facilitating content creation and reuse of virtual courseware.

Compared to traditional training methods, DataMesh Simulator offers several advantages:

  • Reduced Training Costs: By eliminating the need for specific environmental conditions like weather and terrain and powered by electricity instead of gasoline, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digitized and iterative 3D content and courseware based on the FactVerse platform, achieving significant cost savings compared to investments in real equipment.
  • Greater Flexibility: The platform provides exceptional flexibility in training scenarios. Training schools or enterprises can create customizable digital twins, scenarios, and assessment logics using FactVerse’s zero-code tools. It supports multi-user collaborative training, allowing users to easily switch between different training scenarios as needed.
  • Enhanced Safety: DataMesh Simulator significantly reduces operational safety risks, property damage, and potential risks to life. By simulating dangerous operations within a safe environment, operators gain valuable experience without compromising safety.
  • Comprehensive Training Management: The platform incorporates a comprehensive learning management system with an immersive training experience that enables extensive tracking and feedback on training performance data and assessment methods. It ensures an immersive training experience and seamless integration with mainstream examination systems, supporting various file formats.

DataMesh Simulator empowers businesses to enhance flexibility in training scenarios, reduce training costs, and deliver safer and more reliable training methods and comprehensive training management. By using DataMesh Simulator, SANY and Sunward recreate the operating process of rotary drilling rigs to enhance operational and training efficiency in a digitized manner, significantly reducing accidents caused by inexperienced operators, lowering training costs, and minimizing mechanical wear and tear on equipment.

Setting New Standards for Motion Simulation Training

DataMesh Simulator distinguishes itself from other training platforms through its exceptionally immersive simulation fidelity, realistic motion simulation, and immersive operating cabin experience. Unlike conventional equipment systems with limited visual effects and outdated architecture, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digital twin technology, simulation-based solutions, and motion control to create an authentic sensory experience. It accurately reproduces mechanical states such as movement, tilting, rotation, and vibration, offering a user-friendly UI and simulation system.

Powered by DataMesh’s enterprise metaverse platform, FactVerse, the Simulator offers diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment. Trainees can fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements.

DataMesh Simulator integrates DataMesh Learn training solution, providing a comprehensive and unified assessment system for trainee information management, which supports tracking training progress, editing and distributing examination content, archiving and querying assessment results, and more.

The platform supports private and cloud-based deployment, with a modular approach offering zero-code tools for content creation, enabling customization and upgrades to meet evolving enterprise needs. Additionally, the visual system seamlessly integrates with mainstream VR presentation methods, offering flexibility in adjusting courses and enhancing the overall training experience.

With DataMesh Simulator, trainees can be able to handle equipment in advance and gain valuable experience, addressing challenges such as limited learning time, opportunity and efficiency, and safety in real environments. For enterprises, manufacturers, and training institutions, it provides an efficient, cost-effective, safe, and controllable training solution. By applying digital twin and motion simulation technologies, DataMesh Simulator 2.0 will help drive the development of simulation-based training and provide a new training and assessment approach for the engineering equipment industry.