Hexagon's solutions empower customers to leverage smart digital realities that put data to work autonomously
How is automation aligned with the current business strategy to manufacture products with improved quality, functionality, and reduced time to market?
For several years, we’ve been witnessing a steadily shrinking labour pool, both in developed and developing economies. The pandemic acted as a big driver in accelerating the pace of digitization and automation since they were critical to ensuring business continuity. By optimizing the manufacturing process, digital transformation initiatives have had a key role in the manufacturing industry’s recovery and renewal.
While humans are still integral to running any factory, autonomous solutions can help us envision the ability to run in a ‘lights-out’ situation since they can handle the process end to end from creating work orders to verifying that an inspection is complete.
Another big factor is the growing complexity of products. As consumers today are more demanding than ever, there is immense pressure to introduce new functionalities while keeping the cost of design down and embracing sustainable manufacturing practices. The level of complexity that new-age products demand requires automation and AI.
Industries operating within industries such as transportation, construction, energy, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace and more must all adapt quickly to new market conditions, becoming more sustainable and improving their competitiveness to survive and thrive. Automation is the best and fastest possible method to reach these goals and also establish socially responsible businesses. Hexagon’s solutions empower customers to leverage smart digital realities that put data to work autonomously. They enable customers to become more sustainable by increasing efficiency and safety while reducing emissions and minimising waste.
Given that digital realities can be leveraged in almost any industry, business, or organisation to help them pave the path to sustainability. Please explain how smart digital reality can be used to visualise and prepare entire cities for environmental change?
Smart Digital Reality™ is a unique combination of Hexagon’s core competencies that bring autonomy to digital twins, which fuse the physical and digital worlds. Digital twins have the ability to capture data of any attribute in the physical world, and then gain intelligence from that data or create simulated worlds on top of that information. Smart Digital Realities offer the power to understand what was and what is, and to see what could be, what should be and what will be. For instance, one can think of them as mirror images of the physical world or simulated testing playgrounds that are essentially living re-creations of reality. In other words, they're the ultimate form of data leverage and the foundation for the autonomous future.
In the context of smart cities, this could mean that decision-makers today need shorter response times for emergency services. Critical infrastructure and natural resources need to be monitored, maintained and protected.
Hexagon’s Geospatial Enterprise Solutions (GES) include a world-leading portfolio of reality-capture sensors –from laser scanners, airborne cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to monitoring equipment, mobile mapping technologies and precise positioning. The sensors are complemented by software to create 3D maps and models, which are used for decision-making in a range of software applications, covering areas such as surveying, construction, public safety, and agriculture.
One example is Hexagon’s AI-driven surveillance technology which can issue real-time warnings in the event of avalanches, collapsed dams or blocked railways and roads. Operational safety solutions assist in everything from asset maintenance schedules for critical infrastructure to avoiding collisions and monitoring operator alertness in critical processes like power and mining. Dispatch solutions for police, ambulance and firefighters ensure worker and citizen safety all over the world. Hexagon introduced HxGN Connect in 2021, a SaaS workspace for citywide collaboration that enables government agencies and other diverse organisations to share data and coordinate action ad-hoc, routinely and in emergency situations.
Explain how businesses can adopt "intelligent manufacturing" to help streamline processes, increase productivity, and stay competitive, as well as prepare for the future including unprecedented events like a pandemic?
“Intelligent Manufacturing” is a broad term that refers to digitised process control through which data is gathered and interpreted through AI. The key findings can be used to proactively detect loopholes in the system and respond to events in a timely manner. This improves quality and yield – thus achieving targets while reducing downtime. Of course, when a system or a process is ‘Intelligent’, it automatically also becomes sustainable.
The convergence of digital and physical worlds in a connected digital world allows for the consolidation of data as a result of which each department becomes infinitely smarter. Insights from this data can translate to improved quality, greater productivity, lower costs, and sustainable designs. Adding intelligence and taking cognitive learning approaches to the manufacturing process can ensure that there is continuous learning and incremental improvements. The engineering convergence jumpstarted by the pandemic will play an instrumental role in enabling smart mobility solutions as well as smart design and manufacturing, thereby taking us towards a smarter and better future.
Any manufacturing unit goes through five processes: sourcing, transportation, production, customer use and recycling. “Intelligent Manufacturing” can only be achieved if the right digitization, data collection, analysis and further changes are imbibed in every step, including recycling. As an example, Hexagon recently worked with an organization to ensure usage of recycled polymers for high-end applications. They used Hexagon’s solutions to create an advanced predictive approach to reverse-engineer high-quality material. With this approach, the performance of the final material could be verified to meet the same quality as virgin plastics, which provided customers with the confidence recycled materials will meet their needs. The technology provided Sustainability to the entire process.
It is both timely and critical in the industry 5.0 era to evolve “Intelligent Manufacturing Systems” into a greener paradigm. Please tell us about the challenges faced while producing increasingly customised solutions with shorter lead times in the market with higher quality?
In keeping with the need for Industry 5.0 to become more sustainable and responsible, Hexagon launched the strategic business venture R-evolution in 2021, in the fast growing green-tech space. The company runs profit-driven investments in green tech projects and accelerates the world’s transition to sustainability by applying Hexagon and partner technologies on business opportunities that benefit the environment and society.
Since its launch, the R-evolution portfolio has been expanded to include construction of solar farms in Spain, a blue-carbon ecosystem initiative in the Bahamas, and green hydrogen digitalisation in Australia. By applying Hexagon hardware and software solutions, including visualization platforms and sensors, into each area, R-evolution aims to increase efficiency and profitability of each initiative to enable technical blueprints for greater impact and scale globally.
Hexagon believes that ‘Saving the Planet’ is the biggest business opportunity of the 21st century, and solar, blue carbon and green hydrogen is just the beginning. R-evolution is in full motion to expand its renewable energy portfolio and expand into sustainable agriculture, plastics reduction in oceans, protecting forests, and more. Future ambitions also include inviting others to join the revolution – from technology partners to companies to institutional investors– providing all the opportunity to make a difference.
It is essential that all facets of design and manufacturing take action on environmental sustainability concerns through appropriate strategies. Please tell us how smart manufacturing can embrace environment sustainability as well as become future ready?
Hexagon’s vision is a future where data is fully and autonomously leveraged so that business, industry and humanity sustainably thrive. As a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions, Hexagon is an enabler of sustainability, with solutions that improve efficiency, quality and safety across a broad array of industries and societies.
Our solutions portfolio drives sustainable value creation by putting data to work and empowering increasingly autonomous connected ecosystems. In addition to improving our customers’ bottom lines, our solutions also help make enormous strides towards improving safety and eliminating waste by building toward an increasingly smart, autonomous, connected future.
Hexagon’s solutions portfolio includes precision measurement systems and simulation software that help customers optimize the use of raw materials and components, improve energy efficiency and extend product life cycles. The solutions are used to protect the environment and increase safety by monetization of assets and predicting movements in structures in areas where natural disasters may have a serious impact on people and assets.
There are three primary pain points that a manufacturing process has to address. The first is improved cross-functional supply-chain management internally and visibility, transparency, and traceability for consumers and regulators. Second is creating a digital thread that contextualizes information across operations. Next is the need to leverage operational data with predictive and prescriptive AI for asset reliability and minimal downtime.
Technologies such as digital twin referenced earlier can build a reliable bridge for industrial information integration and reverse integrate the goals of the enterprise. The HxGN Content Program of Hexagon successfully offers 3D digital twins of cities around the world that enable insightful, data-driven decisions for increased sustainability. The same principle can be used for industry for being environment sustainable and be predictive for future.
For several years, we’ve been witnessing a steadily shrinking labour pool, both in developed and developing economies. The pandemic acted as a big driver in accelerating the pace of digitization and automation since they were critical to ensuring business continuity. By optimizing the manufacturing process, digital transformation initiatives have had a key role in the manufacturing industry’s recovery and renewal.
While humans are still integral to running any factory, autonomous solutions can help us envision the ability to run in a ‘lights-out’ situation since they can handle the process end to end from creating work orders to verifying that an inspection is complete.
Another big factor is the growing complexity of products. As consumers today are more demanding than ever, there is immense pressure to introduce new functionalities while keeping the cost of design down and embracing sustainable manufacturing practices. The level of complexity that new-age products demand requires automation and AI.
Industries operating within industries such as transportation, construction, energy, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace and more must all adapt quickly to new market conditions, becoming more sustainable and improving their competitiveness to survive and thrive. Automation is the best and fastest possible method to reach these goals and also establish socially responsible businesses. Hexagon’s solutions empower customers to leverage smart digital realities that put data to work autonomously. They enable customers to become more sustainable by increasing efficiency and safety while reducing emissions and minimising waste.
Given that digital realities can be leveraged in almost any industry, business, or organisation to help them pave the path to sustainability. Please explain how smart digital reality can be used to visualise and prepare entire cities for environmental change?
Smart Digital Reality™ is a unique combination of Hexagon’s core competencies that bring autonomy to digital twins, which fuse the physical and digital worlds. Digital twins have the ability to capture data of any attribute in the physical world, and then gain intelligence from that data or create simulated worlds on top of that information. Smart Digital Realities offer the power to understand what was and what is, and to see what could be, what should be and what will be. For instance, one can think of them as mirror images of the physical world or simulated testing playgrounds that are essentially living re-creations of reality. In other words, they're the ultimate form of data leverage and the foundation for the autonomous future.
In the context of smart cities, this could mean that decision-makers today need shorter response times for emergency services. Critical infrastructure and natural resources need to be monitored, maintained and protected.
Hexagon’s Geospatial Enterprise Solutions (GES) include a world-leading portfolio of reality-capture sensors –from laser scanners, airborne cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to monitoring equipment, mobile mapping technologies and precise positioning. The sensors are complemented by software to create 3D maps and models, which are used for decision-making in a range of software applications, covering areas such as surveying, construction, public safety, and agriculture.
One example is Hexagon’s AI-driven surveillance technology which can issue real-time warnings in the event of avalanches, collapsed dams or blocked railways and roads. Operational safety solutions assist in everything from asset maintenance schedules for critical infrastructure to avoiding collisions and monitoring operator alertness in critical processes like power and mining. Dispatch solutions for police, ambulance and firefighters ensure worker and citizen safety all over the world. Hexagon introduced HxGN Connect in 2021, a SaaS workspace for citywide collaboration that enables government agencies and other diverse organisations to share data and coordinate action ad-hoc, routinely and in emergency situations.
Explain how businesses can adopt "intelligent manufacturing" to help streamline processes, increase productivity, and stay competitive, as well as prepare for the future including unprecedented events like a pandemic?
“Intelligent Manufacturing” is a broad term that refers to digitised process control through which data is gathered and interpreted through AI. The key findings can be used to proactively detect loopholes in the system and respond to events in a timely manner. This improves quality and yield – thus achieving targets while reducing downtime. Of course, when a system or a process is ‘Intelligent’, it automatically also becomes sustainable.
The convergence of digital and physical worlds in a connected digital world allows for the consolidation of data as a result of which each department becomes infinitely smarter. Insights from this data can translate to improved quality, greater productivity, lower costs, and sustainable designs. Adding intelligence and taking cognitive learning approaches to the manufacturing process can ensure that there is continuous learning and incremental improvements. The engineering convergence jumpstarted by the pandemic will play an instrumental role in enabling smart mobility solutions as well as smart design and manufacturing, thereby taking us towards a smarter and better future.
Any manufacturing unit goes through five processes: sourcing, transportation, production, customer use and recycling. “Intelligent Manufacturing” can only be achieved if the right digitization, data collection, analysis and further changes are imbibed in every step, including recycling. As an example, Hexagon recently worked with an organization to ensure usage of recycled polymers for high-end applications. They used Hexagon’s solutions to create an advanced predictive approach to reverse-engineer high-quality material. With this approach, the performance of the final material could be verified to meet the same quality as virgin plastics, which provided customers with the confidence recycled materials will meet their needs. The technology provided Sustainability to the entire process.
It is both timely and critical in the industry 5.0 era to evolve “Intelligent Manufacturing Systems” into a greener paradigm. Please tell us about the challenges faced while producing increasingly customised solutions with shorter lead times in the market with higher quality?
In keeping with the need for Industry 5.0 to become more sustainable and responsible, Hexagon launched the strategic business venture R-evolution in 2021, in the fast growing green-tech space. The company runs profit-driven investments in green tech projects and accelerates the world’s transition to sustainability by applying Hexagon and partner technologies on business opportunities that benefit the environment and society.
Since its launch, the R-evolution portfolio has been expanded to include construction of solar farms in Spain, a blue-carbon ecosystem initiative in the Bahamas, and green hydrogen digitalisation in Australia. By applying Hexagon hardware and software solutions, including visualization platforms and sensors, into each area, R-evolution aims to increase efficiency and profitability of each initiative to enable technical blueprints for greater impact and scale globally.
Hexagon believes that ‘Saving the Planet’ is the biggest business opportunity of the 21st century, and solar, blue carbon and green hydrogen is just the beginning. R-evolution is in full motion to expand its renewable energy portfolio and expand into sustainable agriculture, plastics reduction in oceans, protecting forests, and more. Future ambitions also include inviting others to join the revolution – from technology partners to companies to institutional investors– providing all the opportunity to make a difference.
It is essential that all facets of design and manufacturing take action on environmental sustainability concerns through appropriate strategies. Please tell us how smart manufacturing can embrace environment sustainability as well as become future ready?
Hexagon’s vision is a future where data is fully and autonomously leveraged so that business, industry and humanity sustainably thrive. As a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions, Hexagon is an enabler of sustainability, with solutions that improve efficiency, quality and safety across a broad array of industries and societies.
Our solutions portfolio drives sustainable value creation by putting data to work and empowering increasingly autonomous connected ecosystems. In addition to improving our customers’ bottom lines, our solutions also help make enormous strides towards improving safety and eliminating waste by building toward an increasingly smart, autonomous, connected future.
Hexagon’s solutions portfolio includes precision measurement systems and simulation software that help customers optimize the use of raw materials and components, improve energy efficiency and extend product life cycles. The solutions are used to protect the environment and increase safety by monetization of assets and predicting movements in structures in areas where natural disasters may have a serious impact on people and assets.
There are three primary pain points that a manufacturing process has to address. The first is improved cross-functional supply-chain management internally and visibility, transparency, and traceability for consumers and regulators. Second is creating a digital thread that contextualizes information across operations. Next is the need to leverage operational data with predictive and prescriptive AI for asset reliability and minimal downtime.
Technologies such as digital twin referenced earlier can build a reliable bridge for industrial information integration and reverse integrate the goals of the enterprise. The HxGN Content Program of Hexagon successfully offers 3D digital twins of cities around the world that enable insightful, data-driven decisions for increased sustainability. The same principle can be used for industry for being environment sustainable and be predictive for future.
