Automotive industry

Delivering cutting-edge solutions for the automotive industry that aid in the design, production and operation of vehicles.

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Driving the automotive mobility revolution

Helping the automotive industry embrace electric, connected and autonomous vehicles.

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Automotive is undergoing a revolution. Demand for cleaner transport is driving investment in electric and hydrogen vehicles, while digitalisation is fueling interest in smart vehicles and autonomous mobility. Hexagon’s automotive industry solutions and software are helping automotive businesses digitally transform to design produce and safely operate future mobility solutions.

Explore capabilities

  • Manufacturing
  • Autonomous mobility
  • Cities and nations
  • Farms
  • Industrial facilities
  • Infrastructure
  • Mines
Manufacturing
In this time of automotive industry disruption, investing in digital technologies is game-changing. Hexagon’s smart manufacturing solutions give automotive firms the agility and resilience to navigate complexity in the mobility revolution while maximising growth, reducing costs and driving efficiency.

Design and engineering phase

With Hexagon’s innovations in manufacturing technology, users can digitally simulate and optimise product design and engineering to ensure component manufacturability, production productivity and output quality.

Production phase

Maintain a digital thread through production, optimise machine tools, measure environmental variances and prevent downtime with predictive data analyses.

Inspection phase

Automate and digitalise quality measurement with our world-leading metrology hardware and software, creating a bridge between the real and digital worlds.

Digital transformation

Deploy Hexagon’s sensor software systems to transform siloed and disconnected processes into an integrated, data-driven manufacturing ecosystem that captures and creates value across the product lifecycle, enabling new business models and automating workflows to become increasingly autonomous, efficient and sustainable.

Autonomous mobility
Accelerate the research, development and deployment of autonomous mobility for on- and off-road vehicles and equipment, marine vessels, drones, robotics and more. Explore how Hexagon’s automotive industry solutions reframe autonomy with sustainability in mind.

Enabling solutions

Autonomous mobility research and development platforms that enable automation functionality across a diverse set of control systems and industrial applications.

Accelerating solutions

Autonomous mobility testing that creates a seamless workflow between real-world and simulated environments to accelerate, optimise, verify and validate billions of test drive kilometres and real-world scenarios.

Deployment solutions

Deploying autonomous solutions that enable customers to quickly scale from prototype R&D and testing phases to full production in a variety of emerging and fast-paced market segments.

Cities and nations
For automotive manufacturers, monitoring, securing and protecting production facilities presents many complex many complex challenges. Explore how Hexagon’s automotive industry software helps improve security and surveillance operations and business resiliency through better situational awareness and incident management.

Industrial and commercial resiliency

Forge safer industrial and commercial facilities with scalable surveillance, security and incident management capabilities.

Mapping solutions

Leverage location intelligence with solutions that capture, visualise, analyse and derive insights from location data to address a variety of urban and national challenges.

Public safety solutions

Improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information with integrated technology solutions that enhance public safety and security performance and productivity.

Transportation solutions

Deploy intuitive, integrated solutions for roads, railways, aviation and maritime to ensure effective planning and operations and enhance safety with minimal disruption.

Utilities and communications solutions

Achieve greater network service reliability, enhance integrity, increase efficiency and fulfil the expectations of utility stakeholders with Hexagon’s location-based technologies.

Farms
Machine control and automation enablement ensure the accuracy of tractors and implements movement, improving the performance of machines in the field. Understand how Hexagon is empowering an increasingly autonomous future in agriculture.

Automation and autonomy

Adopt turnkey automation and positioning solutions — from machine control to fully autonomous — that reduce inputs, optimise yields and assure safety-critical operations while ensuring sustainability and resiliency across crop lifecycles.

OEM solutions

Integrate field-ready advanced technologies for OEMs, including GNSS assured positioning and correction services for precision farming, machine controls and visualisation for analysis and planning.

Industrial facilities

Operate and maintain phase

Leverage data from the planning, design and build phases to create an operational twin that connects people, processes and events throughout the entire industrial facility lifecycle.

Infrastructure
Machine control is used to accurately position construction equipment based on design models with GPS technology. See how Hexagon’s automotive industry solutions decrease wasteful movement of material, avoiding unplanned rework and allowing even inexperienced operators to perform work faster and more efficiently.

Construct phase

Maintain a data-driven approach to orchestrate the entire construction phase, creating a 3D model of productivity and efficiency — with higher quality, fewer reworks and less waste — while layering 4D cost and 5D BIM scheduling data throughout the project.

Operate and maintain phase

Empower asset owners and operators with solutions that go beyond smart infrastructure and provide 24/7 visibility into the operational twin to optimise safety and efficiency throughout all operations and maintenance while extending the life of the infrastructure asset.

Mines
Autonomous solutions are accelerating the mining industry’s pursuit of zero harm. Explore how Hexagon’s solutions are helping improve safety around mining vehicles.

Material movement solutions

Execute successful material movement through planning, fleet management, safety and slope monitoring powered by integrated mining technology.

Planning solutions

Access powerful 3D modelling and simulation, data visualisation and planning software for geologists and engineers that supports seamless workflows from exploration to production.