Design and Engineering

Dream the impossible, then make it happen. Redefine what’s real with the technology. Create incredible new products in incredible new ways.

We passionately believe that if it can be imagined, it can be made. That attitude, the desire to improve our surroundings is at the heart of what it means to be human. With that in mind, we develop our solutions to remove all barriers to possibility. By harnessing the power of data and technology our tools unlock new avenues for exploration and provide extra lift to the creative process. 

It all starts with an idea, in the world of manufacturing, an idea is a design. Putting that first concept sketch down on paper, iterating and perfecting the look – this is where innovations take shape. But product designers and engineers are responsible for a huge number of variables that have major consequences in downstream manufacturing processes. That design might look amazing, but how much will it cost to make? What material is best to make it out of? Can it even be made successfully to the required standards?

Hexagon software sits at the leading edge of production innovation making it possible to produce things that were previously unthinkable by entirely rethinking both products and production through design, materials, manufacturing and process innovation. Before leaving the virtual world, designs are optimised for user experience, operating efficiency, longevity, manufacturability, cost-efficiency and manufacturing process productivity.

This changes the entire game for designers and engineers, leaving you free to entirely rethink or reinvent products, liberated from pre-conceived norms. Our simulation software lets users quickly explore many different scenarios to find the best design, without making expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes.

Hexagon’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) software range encompasses simulation for materials, products and process performance. With solutions for finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multi-body dynamics (MBD), as well as cost estimation, design optimisation and generative design, we help designers, engineers and analysts to collaborate with colleagues throughout the manufacturing process to make improvements. Our technologies are trusted by users around the world as they design, optimise and validate the products people use every day.

Hexagon’s design and engineering technology helps accelerate innovation and empowering manufacturers to bring to market quality products that improve the experience of people, faster and more affordably.

With people and planet and planet so out of balance, we urgently need to rethink the things we make and how we make them. Our demand for newer, better products will never cease, so it is through innovation, invention, ideas and the powerful partnership of creativity and technology that we will secure a better future for people and planet.  

Our world is shaped by manufacturing. Manufacturing starts with design. So let’s think big. Let’s innovate and see what we can achieve, for people.