Hexagon Sheet Metal Fabrication Suite

Quoting for Sheet Metal Fabrication

• Fast, Automatic, and Precise: Quickly generate accurate quotes that automates calculations and ensures precision. This speed and accuracy enhance the quoting process, allowing for rapid response to customer inquiries and faster turnaround.
• Single Part Support: Our solution provides detailed cost estimates for individual parts, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in every quote.
• Part Level and Assembly Level Operations: Perform quoting operations at both the part and assembly levels, allowing for detailed cost breakdowns and accurate pricing across different stages of fabrication.
• Calculations Using Actual Machine Knowledge: Benefit from quotes based on real machine data and operational knowledge. The software uses actual machine capabilities and constraints to ensure that quotes reflect realistic production costs and feasibility.

CAD for Manufacturing & Design Reviews

Offers powerful features to enhance design accuracy and manufacturing efficiency and supports a thorough analysis and optimization of sheet metal parts, ensuring that designs are both manufacturable and cost-effective.

CAM for CNC Bending

The CAM for CNC Bending module offers a comprehensive solution to streamline and enhance bending operations for press brakes. With features like offline programming, 3D simulation, and automatic process calculations, this tool ensures precision, efficiency, and reduced production time.

• Integrated with DESIGNER: Seamlessly integrates with DESIGNER, allowing for efficient design data transfer and workflow continuity between design and manufacturing.
• Automatic Unfolding and Verification: Automate the unfolding of 3D models and verify them against manufacturing constraints, ensuring accurate flat patterns and manufacturable designs.
• Automatic Process Calculations: Utilize automatic sequence calculation to determine the most efficient bending process, optimizing bending order and minimizing unnecessary steps without requiring manual intervention.
• Postprocessing: Efficiently generate machine-specific code through integrated postprocessors, ensuring that bending programs are tailored to the exact requirements of each press brake.
• Operator Instructions: Automatically generate detailed setup and operation instructions for machine operators, reducing the risk of handling errors and ensuring consistent output across production runs.

CAM for CNC Sheet and Tube Cutting

The CAM for CNC Sheet and Tube Cutting module offers a toolset for optimizing cutting operations across a range of technologies, including laser, plasma, and punch. Designed for both simple profiles and complex multi-axis operations, this solution ensures accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility for various manufacturing needs.

• Efficient and Safe Tool Paths: Generate safe and optimized tool paths that reduce machine wear and minimize operational risks, ensuring smooth and reliable cutting performance.
• Advanced Nesting Capabilities: Improve material utilization with class-leading nesting algorithms that optimize sheet layouts, reducing waste and driving significant material savings.
• Built on Extensive Industry Experience: Developed with decades of experience in the sheet metal and tube cutting industries, offering a proven and reliable solution trusted by leading manufacturers.
• Shop Floor Reports: Generate detailed shop floor reports that provide insights into production performance, material usage, and job completion, supporting data-driven decision-making.
• Preferred Solution for Major OEMs: Recognized as the go-to solution for significant OEMs across industries, ensuring compatibility with industry standards and best practices.

Production Management

Designed to streamline and integrate the entire production process for sheet metal fabrication and tube assemblies. From initial quoting and planning to final invoicing, this solution provides end-to-end visibility and control, ensuring seamless operations and consistent quality output.

• From Estimate to Invoice: Provides end-to-end control, managing the entire production cycle from the initial cost estimate to the final invoice. It ensures seamless integration across all stages—quoting, planning, nesting, production, and quality control—giving you comprehensive oversight and streamlined processes.
• Quoting for Sheet Metal and Tube Assemblies: Generate accurate and competitive quotes and supports detailed, itemized quotations, enabling precise cost estimation for single parts or complex assemblies while providing flexibility for adjustments.
• Nesting Connected to Stock and Inventory Management: Optimize material usage with intelligent nesting algorithms linked directly to your stock and inventory management system. This connection ensures efficient material allocation, reduces waste by tracking off-cuts and remnants, and keeps inventory levels updated in real-time, preventing material shortages and excess.
• Part Requirements Sourced from Connected ERP/MRP Systems: Leverage seamless integration with ERP/MRP systems to source part requirements directly from your production schedule. This integration ensures that production runs smoothly with real-time access to inventory, part availability, and order status, minimizing delays and maintaining alignment with business goals.
• Output to Quality Management Systems: Ensure consistent quality and compliance with integrated quality management features. The system automatically routes production data and outputs to quality control, helping to detect deviations early.