Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division presented its complete software portfolio at MACH 2022 to demonstrate how its easy-to-use solutions help engineering, production, and quality teams adapt more quickly to changing requirements and improve productivity from design to production and inspection.
Making their debut appearance at MACH 2022 was Hexagon’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) team that demonstrated how virtual manufacturing and costing solutions, such as the Simufact portfolio, predict defects and process challenges for cold rolling, sheet-metal forming, welding, riveting, and additive manufacturing operations.
Also on show was the Absolute Tracker that provides absolute positioning, so it can be detached from a measuring arm to scan anything using walk-around inspection. This handheld scanning flexibility makes it possible to scan large parts in-situ with high accuracy and surface coverage.
Hexagon’s production software suite at MACH demonstrated robust, time-saving tools for all kinds of metal cutting, including solutions dedicated to sheetmetal workflow management and manufacturing, as well as mould production and additive processes. Demonstrations of the latest developments from EDGECAM, WORKNC, NCSIMUL and also ESPRIT that are all now integral to the Hexagon portfolio were particularly well received at MACH.
At the heart of the stand, Hexagon demonstrated its GLOBAL S coordinate measurement machine (CMM) that showcased a range of inspection activities that offer manufacturers the flexibility to adapt to many new requirements with a single machine. The CMM enables automatic switching between a growing number of different tactile and non-contact sensors. The latest of these is the ground-breaking HP-L-10.10 laser sensor, which enables manufacturers to perform non-contact measurements of almost any surface with accuracy comparable to that of tactile probes in a fraction of the time.