Hexagon announces fourth annual customer awards to be presented at regional 'Make Data Make Sense' Series events
18 June 2024
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division today announced the recipients of the fourth annual Hexagon Elite Awards presented to customers who are champions of progress and innovation using the company’s solutions.
This year’s Elite Award winners are being recognized at 10 regional Hexagon LIVE 2024 “Make Data Make Sense Series” conferences, starting with the kickoff event in Grapevine, Texas, this week. These events are designed for customers and prospects to exchange ideas about projects and future strategies. Each event also provides an opportunity to see innovative Hexagon solutions live and connect with the Hexagon team.
Other “Make Data Make Sense Series” events are planned this year in Spain, India, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Italy.
The Hexagon Elite Awards annually recognize Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division customers aligned with the Smart Digital Reality™, a unified, role-based, real-time view of the physical and digital realities across a project and asset portfolio. It is powered by the Digital Backbone, Hexagon’s engine for interoperability, intelligence and innovation that connects data across the entire industrial asset lifecycle, enabling users to achieve more digital twins, third-party software and legacy systems.
“This year’s submissions, all meticulously created using Hexagon’s software suite, deserve this type of global recognition,” said David Cryer, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division. “We continue to be pleased by the growing worldwide interest and heightened standards evident in the Hexagon Elite Awards. It’s our honor to acknowledge all these winners.”
Submissions were judged on the following criteria:
- Project details (size, scope, etc.)
- Project/overall challenges and complexities a company faced
- Advantages of using Hexagon solutions
- Benefits that came from using Hexagon solutions
- Problems that were avoided or eliminated by using Hexagon solutions
- Why a company’s achievements are unique; what aspects of the project take the use of Hexagon tools beyond what is in the user manual?
- How have Hexagon solutions enabled users to become champions of change within their company?
The 2024 Elite Award recipients are:
- Best in Planning recognizes customers using Hexagon solutions to:
- Seamlessly integrate data across portfolios, projects, assets and disciplines to optimize project selection, design, resourcing and profitability
- Generate clear conceptual designs to increase efficiency and accuracy during detailed design and engineering
- Accurately define scope, budget and schedule for project and event design and execution
1st Place: Wison Engineering
2nd Place: Aker BP
- Best in Design recognizes customers using Hexagon solutions to:
- Leverage planning data from diverse sources to streamline design and engineering for more intelligent and consistent plans and models
- Dramatically enhance flexibility, interoperability and collaboration to maximize design accuracy
- Improve the quality and safety of engineering with interoperability between planning, design and analysis
* Hexagon received a record number of submissions in this category and decided to recognize four total winners.
1st Place: Fluor
2nd Place: Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd
3rd Place: Petrobras
4th Place: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute Co., LTD.
- Best in Execution recognizes customers using Hexagon solutions to:
- Leverage the Digital Backbone and design data to efficiently procure, fabricate, construct and commission projects, improving execution time, quality, productivity and cost
- Reduce project rework and waste by better estimating, forecasting, collaborating and tracking of materials and costs
- Minimize risks associated with design and field changes, schedule or delivery delays, worker safety and more
1st Place: Hoffman Construction Company
2nd Place: Deloitte Australia
3rd Place: Rozelle Interchange
- Best in Operations recognizes customers using Hexagon solutions to:
- Leverage engineering and operations data to deliver more efficient, productive assets while ensuring regulatory compliance and managing EHS risk
- Share asset data across departments and stakeholders to improve collaboration, productivity and operational excellence
- Create a unified view of all operational data for more informed, real-time decision-making
1st Place: CGI
2nd Place: Koch Ag & Energy Services, LLC
3rd Place: SOCAR Downstream
- Best in Maintenance recognizes customers using Hexagon solutions to:
- Move from reactive to predictive maintenance to improve asset performance, productivity and profitability
- Improve maintenance process efficiency, standardization and human safety
- Reduce waste by improving asset energy usage and extending asset life
1st Place: USG
2nd Place: SBS Transit Ltd
3rd Place: Vopak
Hexagon’s judges also selected regional innovation award winners along with the inaugural Smart Digital Reality Award:
- The Smart Digital Reality Award recognizes a customer using Hexagon solutions to create a Digital Backbone to accelerate data velocity across the asset lifecycle to enable improved collaboration and smarter decision-making that increases productivity, operational integrity and sustainability of industrial facilities.
1st Place: Ecopetrol
Regional Innovator Awards recognize innovative customers using Hexagon solutions to make data-driven decisions, to transform and automate key processes or to contribute to a more sustainable planet.
- Americas Innovator Award:
1st Place: Ecopetrol
- APAC Innovator Award:
1st Place: Toyo Engineering Corporation
- EMIA Innovator Award:
1st Place: SOCAR
- Greater China Innovator Award:
1st Place: Digital Engineering Dept., Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd
Winners in each category receive an engraved award and a regional Hexagon LIVE “Make Data Make Sense Series” pass for 2024 or a complimentary pass to Hexagon LIVE Global in Las Vegas June 16-19, 2025.
Details on the 2025 Hexagon Elite Awards competition will be available later this year. For the most up-to-date information, visit here.
For further information, please contact:
Jerry Felts, Global Communications Manager/Influencer Relations Specialist
Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division
Tel: +1.256.730.3074
Email: jerry.felts@hexagon.com
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