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Shaping quality for aerospace 

Quality makes innovation take flight. For her future. For everyone’s

Hexagon is the aerospace industry’s partner for quality, and our solutions have been trusted by innovators for more than 50 years. By connecting the entire value chain with a unique portfolio of digital manufacturing solutions, Hexagon can help manufacturers reduce development cycles, ramp up production, minimise costs, and meet stringent regulatory standards without compromising safety or performance. 

Explore our technology and use cases here and experience the extraordinary potential of digital manufacturing solutions to accelerate innovation in aerospace, shape a better reality and improve quality of life for all.
 

As production ramps up, quality remains the key to success. Learn more about how you can embed quality throughout your operation with leading-edge hardware and software to accelerate your production processes with advanced automation solutions. 

PRESTO System from Hexagon has the power to transform productivity for larger scale inspection routines with a turnkey automated inspection cell that can be plugged into an existing ecosystem, automating many of the challenging aspects of traditional automation, such as the robotics programming.

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To protect the future of the planet and people, aviation must become more sustainable and manufacturing processes will play a key role in making this a reality. Discover how technologies such as simulation and collaboration platforms can help to bring our sustainable future closer with innovations in materials, structure and propulsion.

Accelerating this journey will be platforms such as Nexus from Hexagon, which applies the latest cloud technologies to unblock innovation bottlenecks, enabling global teams to collaborate in real-time across the product lifecycle – from design and engineering to production and quality – to solve manufacturing problems together and speed time-to-market.

Nexus makes this possible by connecting equipment, data and processes to create a digital reality where insights are available to people in real time, in context and in one place so they can make better-informed decisions.

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The aerospace industry still has some way to go on its digital transformation journey. But Hexagon is here to support that process with expertise at every step of the manufacturing process. Learn more about how Hexagon solutions can weave a connected digital thread through your operation, enhancing efficiency, quality and sustainability.

With a Quality Management System (QMS) certified for aerospace (AS 9100, ISO 9001 and ISO 5001) it is possible to build a closed-loop quality process that promotes a system of continuous improvement. ETQ Reliance’s takes this further, with a future-ready, cloud-native QMS that provides the data backbone for automating the collection and delivery of manufacturing quality control data, non-conformance reports, and customer feedback, providing an enterprise view of quality management across the entire product lifecycle.

An industry leader in machine components and complex assemblies saw a remarkable 70% reduction in total inspection time with Hexagon’s inspection solutions.

Hexagon simulation software has helped one airframer save €3m in certification costs by replacing physical testing.

With Hexagon’s automated inspection solution, cost for aero-structure inspection have been reduced by up to 75%
 

Hexagon is the aerospace world’s technology partner, helping manufacturers solve today's manufacturing ramp up challenges and enable the innovation on which sustainable aviation depends. We’ve always been known for precision metrology. Today, we bring the same accuracy to the whole production life cycle, fusing the real and virtual worlds to capture and use precision data from design through production to service life. Hexagon enables its partners in aerospace to: 

  • Achieve right first time, with digital reality technology that fuses the real with the virtual world for unparalleled precision and efficiency
  • Ensure the highest degree of quality management from concept to take-off
  • Maximise production output while reducing costs, thanks to AI-powered insights and state-of-the-art automation technologies
  • Break down silos and improve collaboration through an open platform and ecosystem, from design and engineering through to maintenance, repair and overhaul
  • Empower the next generation of makers with the technology, training and services to achieve greater efficiency and creativity, and power the industry for the century to come
 

Manufacturing quality 

Discover actionable insights and strategies that elevate quality from the shop floor to the boardroom. 

Paris Airshow 2025

Visit us between June 16-22 in Hall 2b booth D158 to discover our cutting-edge technology revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing.

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