Hexagon Digital Factory
Transform facility planning with 3D digital reality through a fully managed service
The foundation for confident factory planning
Your facility – Captured. Visualised. Optimised.
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Digital Factory as-a-Service helps manufacturers plan, optimise, and transform facilities with confidence.
Hexagon's end-to-end service creates an accurate digital representation of your manufacturing environment, allowing teams to remotely explore, evaluate what-if scenarios, and validate changes before implementation. From equipment installations and layout modifications to factory expansions, stakeholders can collaborate on a shared view of the facility, reduce project risk, avoid costly rework, and make informed decisions faster.
Accurate factory insights:
Create an up-to-date digital representation of your manufacturing facility, eliminating reliance on outdated layouts, manual measurements, and incomplete documentation.
Plan with confidence:
Evaluate what-if scenarios, validate facility changes, and avoid costly rework before installing equipment, modifying layouts, or expanding operations.
Fully managed service:
Digitise, visualise, and optimise your facilities without investing in specialist equipment, software, or in-house expertise, with Hexagon's trusted global network.
A simpler path to better factory planning
From capture to confident execution
End-to-end managed service
No investing in specialist equipment, software, or in-house expertise. Hexagon manages the entire process from reality capture to final deliverables.
Global leader in measurement technologies
Built on Hexagon's trusted portfolio of metrology, reality capture, digital twin, and digital reality technologies used by manufacturers worldwide.
Manufacturing-focused expertise
Leverage decades of experience supporting manufacturers with factory planning, measurement, automation, quality, and digital transformation initiatives.
Flexible deliverables and integration
Receive data and deliverables in the formats best suited to your workflows, from point clouds and 3D as-built models and engineering-ready datasets.
Global scale, single point of contact
Start with a single facility and expand across sites worldwide through a single point of contact, with consistent workflows, deliverables, and local execution capabilities.
Built for real-world manufacturing challenges
Facility upgrades and expansion
Modernise or expand existing facilities with confidence using an accurate digital representation of the current environment to validate changes, reduce rework, and minimise project risk. Existing facilities often rely on outdated drawings, incomplete documentation, or manual measurements, making upgrades and expansion projects difficult to plan. Hexagon's Digital Factory creates a trusted digital representation of the current environment, helping teams assess constraints, compare alternatives, and validate plans before implementation. The result is lower project risk, fewer surprises, and reduced rework during modernisation initiatives.
Equipment installation and relocation
Avoid surprises when installing new equipment or relocating existing assets by validating fit, clearances, access routes, and facility constraints before implementation.Installing new equipment or relocating existing assets within a manufacturing facility often involves tight space constraints, complex logistics, and potential impacts on surrounding operations. Hexagon's Digital Factory helps teams explore ‘what-if scenarios’ to assess equipment fit, validate installation feasibility, evaluate access routes, and identify potential conflicts before implementation. This improves planning accuracy, reduces project risk, minimizes disruption, and helps ensure changes can be integrated smoothly into the existing manufacturing environment.
Multi-site factory standardisation
Create a consistent digital foundation across facilities through a scalable managed service, improving planning, collaboration, and replication of best practices.Manufacturers often operate facilities with varying levels of documentation, data quality, and layout accuracy. Hexagon's Digital Factory provides a scalable managed service that creates a consistent digital foundation across sites, giving teams access to standardized facility information for planning, benchmarking, and collaboration. This makes it easier to replicate successful manufacturing initiatives and support decision-making across the enterprise.
Subsurface mapping and utility detection
Avoid disruption and costly damage during excavation by detecting hidden underground utilities.Establish the location and condition of underground networks and structures, and characterise subsurface layers in buildings, roads, railways, or airports.
This reduces the risk of disruptions and accidents from utility ruptures or pipe deterioration. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) enables this through non-intrusive and non-destructive techniques.
Trusted capabilities. Proven delivery.
Hexagon combines global scale, local expertise, and proven delivery capabilities to help manufacturers digitise facilities with confidence.
Hexagon staff
900 members
500 laser scanning experts +
400 BIM & GIS modelers
Execution at scale
130+ active BIM projects
managed simultaneously ensuring excellence and on-time delivery
High-volume delivery
700,000 hours
of BIM professional services delivered in 2025
Worldwide footprint
20+ countries
where we deliver BIM excellence
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Get answers to common questions about Digital Factory, reality capture, deployment, integration, and how manufacturers are using digital reality to plan with confidence.
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Do I need to purchase scanning equipment or software?No. Digital Factory is a fully managed service. Hexagon provides the technology, specialists, and deliverables, allowing your team to focus on planning and decision-making.
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How disruptive is the capture process?Capture activities are planned to minimize disruption and can often be completed while production continues, helping avoid unnecessary downtime.
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How is Digital Factory different from CAD?CAD reflects design intent, which may differ from actual factory conditions. Digital Factory reflects reality, using captured data to provide an accurate view of what exists today for planning and decision-making. In short, CAD shows the as-designed state, while Digital Factory represents the as-built facility.
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What deliverables will I receive?Deliverables can include 3D point clouds, 3D models including textured meshes and BIM models, 3D virtual tours, 2D layouts, technical reports, and engineering-ready datasets tailored to your project requirements. Talk to our team to scope the right outputs for your needs.
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How accurate is reality capture with Hexagon’s Digital Factory?Yes. Hexagon's reality capture technologies provide highly accurate facility data for planning, equipment placement, automation, and layout validation. Accuracy can be aligned to specific project requirements.
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Will it work with our existing planning and engineering tools?Yes. Deliverables can be provided in formats that support common CAD, BIM, layout planning, simulation, and digital engineering workflows, allowing teams to leverage existing tools and processes.
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Can we start with a single facility and expand later?Absolutely. Many customers begin with a pilot project and expand over time using standardized workflows, deliverables, and a single point of contact. Our team can help define an approach that aligns with your objectives.
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What is the first step to getting started?The most successful projects start with a pilot focused on a specific facility, project, or challenge. Contact our team to scope the opportunity and define the best approach.
