Pegatron, an electronics manufacturer with more than 100,000 employees, 24 sites and about $35 billion in annual revenue, cut defect rates by 67% and labor costs by 7% per assembly line after deploying an AI agent that checks manual assembly in real time, according to an NVIDIA customer story. Digital twins of its factories are expected to shorten new factory construction by 40%.
"Pegatron uses NVIDIA Omniverse to assist in developing applications for planning virtual factories in advance. This can reduce the period of time to construct a new factory by 40%," said Andrew Hsiao of Pegatron's AI Development group.
Two problems held back AI on the factory floor. Production-line layouts were planned from staff experience, and overall equipment effectiveness could only be measured after a line was running and the capital spent. Separately, each department built its own AI agents, with duplicated compute, MLOps pipelines and little standardization.
Pegatron built PEGAVERSE on NVIDIA Omniverse to simulate lines before they are built, estimating cycle times, predicting effectiveness and finding bottlenecks; six virtual factories now run alongside physical plants. It also built a shared AI factory on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and DGX where teams build, train and deploy agents using LLMs and customized vision language models, with RAG and guardrails, fed by robot sensor data from Isaac Sim and camera feeds via Metropolis. Agent development across the company has accelerated by 400% over four years. The PEGA Visual Analytics Agent, built on the NVIDIA Video Search and Summarization blueprint, includes the Assembly Guiding Agent: if a worker skips a step such as a screw on a phone or laptop, they get a real-time alert, and operators can replay the video clip and ask the agent questions. Pegatron also uses NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac Sim to turn CAD drawings, bills of materials and historical data into thousands of synthetic defect images for training inspection models, cutting visual-inspection model deployment time by 67%, and trains a glue-dispensing agent in PEGAVERSE to adjust for glue viscosity and room temperature before transferring it to real machines.
Pegatron is extending PEGAVERSE with NVIDIA's Factory Operations Blueprint and NemoClaw to build a factory manager agent that coordinates material transport, AI inspection, SOP guidance and machine-to-machine communication, with an estimated 15% reduction in asset redundancy costs.