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Engineering Reality 2024 Volume 1

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Gear data exchange: Optimising design and manufacturing

Stationary Suite

Gear data exchange: Optimising design and manufacturing

Applied Solutions

Revolutionising urban mobility: Exploring eVTOL’s high power density e-propulsion units

Automation and smarter EDM manufacturing enabled by shop-floor metrology solutions.

Metrology Devices

Automation and smarter EDM manufacturing enabled by shop-floor metrology solutions

Sustainability stories

Discover Hexagon's extraordinary journey towards a sustainable future in the world of manufacturing

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Leading with sustainability

Leadership

Leading with sustainability

Science meets surf: The sustainable future of surfboard manufacturing

OneMI

Science meets surf: The sustainable future of surfboard manufacturing

Hexagon helps RadiciGroup deliver high-performance parts

Multiphysics

Hexagon helps RadiciGroup deliver high-performance parts

Revolutionising urban mobility: Exploring eVTOL’s high power density e-propulsion units

Applied Solutions

Revolutionising urban mobility: Exploring eVTOL’s high power density e-propulsion units

Developing high-performing vehicles

System Dynamics

Developing high-performing vehicles in reduced time and cost

Automotive industry leadership

Interview

Automotive industry leadership

High-performance resources to meet aeronautics standards and regulations

Metrology Devices

High-performance resources to meet aeronautics standards and regulations

From chaos to clarity: How Danfoss automated data collection and improved quality with Q-DAS

Metrology Software

From chaos to clarity: How Danfoss automated data collection and improved quality with Q-DAS

Hexagon helps YAMAS optimise anti-vibration rubbermetal suspension bushing design

Multiphysics

Hexagon helps YAMAS optimise anti-vibration rubbermetal suspension bushing design

Transforming the global plastics industry with Nexus Connected Worker

Nexus

Transforming the global plastics industry with Nexus Connected Worker

Innovations and solutions in plastic injection

Production Software

Moulding the future: Innovations and solutions in plastic injection

Yuki Tsuda (right) together with the Sodick Smart Site development team at the Kaga factory in Ishikawa Prefecture.

Stationary Devices & Software

Automation and smarter EDM manufacturing enabled by shop-floor metrology solutions

Making exceptional vehicles with Hexagon.

Multiphysics

CAE solutions for multibody dynamics and nonlinear analysis

Gear data exchange: Optimising design and manufacturing

Metrology Software

Gear data exchange: Optimising design and manufacturing

A comprehensive look at Hexagon’s machine tool measurement solutions

Metrology Devices

Adopting next-gen metrology in the machine shop: A comprehensive look at Hexagon’s machine tool measurement solutions

Significant time savings thanks to a high-end testing system

Portable Devices

Significant time savings thanks to a high-end testing system

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships

Nexus

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships

One plus one equals three: Reflections on Sixth Sense’s third cohort

Sixth Sense

One plus one equals three: Reflections on Sixth Sense’s third cohort

Romax and JMAG develop an end-to-end e-powertrain design and analysis solution

System Dynamics

Romax and JMAG develop an end-to-end e-powertrain design and analysis solution

Leadership

Where optimism meets innovation

Optimism at scale PAOLO

Leadership

Optimism at scale - the power of you, technology and community

Volvo Bus Cororation standardises on MSC Nastran for all their structural analysis needs

Multiphysics

Volvo Bus Corporation standardises on MSC Nastran for all their structural analysis needs

Creating efficient pedestrian alert systems for electric vehicles

Multiphysics

Test-based AVAS speaker simulation

Sustainable inspection with modern CMM technology

Stationary Devices

Resource saving operation of ultra-high-accuracy coordinate measuring machines

Giving shape to ideas using VISI products

Mould & Die

Giving shape to ideas

SHINE technology – the foundation of Hexagon's advanced laser scanning technology

Metrology Devices

SHINE: The innovation that sets Hexagon’s 3D laser scanning solutions ahead

How CT Data Analysis is helping TE Connectivity Reach Their Ultimate Goal of End-to-End Quality Inspection

NDE

How CT data analysis is helping TE Connectivity reach their ultimate goal of end-to-end quality inspection

Bosch uses AI/ML to inject confidence in moulding semi-crystalline plastics

AI/ML

Bosch Group slashes costs, reduces calibration time with ODYSSEE CAE

Hexagon help PFS perform fast, accurate large-scale measurements in minutes, not months

Portable Software Solution

Hexagon helps PFS perform fast, accurate large-scale measurements ...

Nexus Compute

Nexus

Nexus Compute: Scalable cloud-based compute capability for engineering simulations

Modular Design Approach for Cost-Optimised Low-Voltage Inverters

Applied Solutions

A modular design approach for cost-optimised low-voltage inverters

ProPlanAI

Production Machining

A faster path to toolpaths

Development of a real-time controller for multibody dynamic simulations

System Dynamics

Development of a real-time controller Hexagon/Adams and MATLAB/Simulink

From artefacts to digital gems: Hexagon’s StereoScan neo revolutionises archaeological digitisation

Portable Devices

From artefacts to digital gems

Integrating automated non-contact 3D inspection for welded structures

Portable Devices

Integrating automated non-contact 3D inspection for welded structures

High performance transmissions

System Dynamics

Optimising gearbox mechanisms: The role of tolerance ranges in high-performance sports cars

Smart Assembly Shop

Virtual Manufacturing

Hexagon Smart Assembly Shop: Connecting the physical and manufacturing virtual world

Cohort 3 roundup & review - 9 companies

Leadership

The Sixth Sense third cohort begins its journey

Evaluating driving scenarios and ADAS/AD algorithms

VTD - Cloud

VTD helps Waylancer with fast, concurrent simulations

Nexus for Developers

Nexus

Nexus for Developers: Empowering developers to build connected and collaborative workflows

Hexagon helps Anderson Global reduce setup time & rework

Mould & Die

Hexagon helps Anderson Global reduce setup time and rework

Laser scanning closes the digital gap in 3D printing and high-end milling workflow

Stationary Devices

Laser scanning closes the digital gap in 3D printing and high-end milling workflow

Empowering makers in any economic weather

Leadership

Empowering makers in any economic weather

7 key takeaways on the future of manufacturing

Nexus

7 key takeaways on the future of manufacturing

SkyWater technology uses ETQ Reliance to streamline quality, showcase ROI

ETQ

SkyWater technology uses ETQ Reliance to streamline quality, showcase ROI

GelSight has a feel for the future

Sixth Sense

GelSight has a feel for the future

General Motors validates digital twin of GMAW simulations to reduce distortions

Virtual manufacturing

General Motors validates digital twin of GMAW simulations to reduce distortions

Middlesex Aerospace couples Hexagon CMMs with PC-DMIS to improve quality and efficiency

Stationary solutions

Middlesex Aerospace couples Hexagon CMMs with PC-DMIS to improve quality and efficiency

Portal milling machine flies with machine tool measurement

Stationary devices

Portal milling machine flies with machine tool measurement

Dana improves off-road durability with robust design and stochastic analysis

Multiphysics

Dana improves off-road durability with robust design and stochastic analysis

How advancing CT analysis capabilities support collaboration and product quality

Non-destructive evaluation

How advancing CT analysis capabilities support collaboration and product quality

Mahindra accurately predicts ride and handling performance

System dynamics

Mahindra accurately predicts ride and handling performance

Faster testing and virtual validation of access equipment with Adams Real-Time

System dynamics

Faster testing and virtual validation of access equipment with Adams Real Time

Effect of fibre waviness defect on composite coupons

Materials

Effect of fibre waviness defect on composite coupons

Powering the future of aviation with ROTATOR pitch control mechanism

Applied solutions

Powering the future of aviation with ROTATOR pitch control mechanism

Performing precision measurement at any scale with PC-DMIS

Stationary solutions

Performing precision measurement at any scale with PC-DMIS

ALPHACAM MACRO skates over Cambian’s complex parts

Wood, stone & composites

ALPHACAM MACRO skates over Cambian’s complex parts

Advanced metrological inspection to deal with bigger challenges and tighter tolerances

Portable devices

Advanced metrological inspection to deal with bigger challenges and tighter tolerances

Automated CT quality inspection for tooling springs saves time and resources

Non-destructive evaluation

Automated CT quality inspection for tooling springs saves time and resources

Portable devices

Digitalisation of wheel profile measurement in rail freight transport

Advanced technology meets expertise: the secret to DPS’s success in mould design

Mould & die

Advanced technology meets expertise: the secret to DPS’s success in mould design

Accelerating innovation in electric vehicle components with RADAN and H.V. Wooding Ltd.

Sheet metal fabrication

Accelerating innovation in electric vehicle components with RADAN and H.V. Wooding Ltd.

Mastering technological shifts together

Stationary devices

Mastering technological shifts together

Using Nexus for design reviews in machine shops

Nexus

Using Nexus for design reviews in machine shops