Foxconn moves U.S. plant from simulation to operation

Foxconn says a U.S. factory making artificial-intelligence servers has moved from a virtual model into live production. (foxconn.com) A digital twin is a software copy of a factory floor that lets engineers test layouts, robot paths, and process changes before touching the real line. Foxconn said in November 2024 that it was using NVIDIA Omniverse to build those 3D factory models first in Taiwan and Mexico, with plans to scale them worldwide. (foxconn.com) Foxconn said the system also uses NVIDIA Isaac for robot simulation and OpenUSD for sharing factory data between tools. The company says that setup helps it run multiple high-precision simulations in parallel and move faster from planning to deployment. (foxconn.com 1) (foxconn.com 2) The U.S. move fits a broader Wisconsin buildout. On November 26, 2025, Foxconn and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation said the company would add $569 million in Racine County and create 1,374 jobs over four years to meet demand for data servers. (foxconn.com) Foxconn has been leaning harder into AI hardware as server demand rises with new data-center spending. At NVIDIA GTC on March 16, 2026, Foxconn showed full-system AI server racks for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 platform and said it was expanding U.S. displays of its AI infrastructure business. (foxconn.com) The manufacturing push is showing up in revenue, too. Foxconn Industrial Internet, the group’s industrial subsidiary, says 2025 revenue topped 902.887 billion yuan, while Huawei reported 2025 revenue of 880.941 billion yuan in its annual report. (fii-foxconn.com) (huawei.com) Foxconn Industrial Internet has tied that growth to AI data-center equipment, including liquid-cooling systems and cloud-computing hardware. Its website says the company now operates in 14 countries and regions and employs more than 200,000 people. (fii-foxconn.com) Foxconn has been building the same digital-twin playbook inside its own network for more than a year. A Foxconn Industrial Internet project with Ingrasys and VIZZIO described “live” 3D digital twins for AI-server lighthouse factories, aimed at mapping production sites in real time. (fii-foxconn.com) That leaves Foxconn trying to turn factory software into factory output in the U.S. — using simulation to shorten the path to more AI-server capacity. (foxconn.com 1) (foxconn.com 2)