Collision checks that needed almost four weeks of real testing now take three days in BMW's virtual factory, the carmaker said

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BMW Group's production network. The carmaker says that in the past a real vehicle body had to be manually guided through the production lines, often over several weekends, to identify potential collisions, and that what now takes just three days to simulate virtually previously required almost four weeks of real testing; it also projects the virtual factory will reduce production planning costs by up to 30 percent. It is the company describing its own operations, released alongside a talk at a software partner's conference; the 30 percent is a projection.

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