Manufacturing Intelligence Breakout Sessions

With the Earth operating in the red, our long run of sustainable growth is at risk. As leaders, we wouldn’t operate our companies, cities or nations this way for long. When confronted with a deficit, we quickly find the inefficiencies and waste and remedy the situation. At this year’s HxGN LIVE opening keynote, Ola Rollén, Hexagon President and CEO, will show how we’re leaving big efficiency gains on the table. He’ll lay out Hexagon’s far-reaching vision for putting data to work in our organisations to reverse the trend of resource depletion and waste overwhelming Earth’s systems – and how higher productivity and quality outcomes will drive sustainability and growth for our businesses as well as the planet.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is developing solutions to make your factory smarter. In this presentation, Stephen Graham, VP Marketing, will overview our strategy for the Smart Factory and introduce the Manufacturing Intelligence Track conference programme and content.

Learn what Hexagon is doing to make the autonomous creation of measurement routines a reality. Understand what features have been delivered and planned for 2019 and explore our vision to help you work more efficiently and effectively. In this session we will not only talk about the growing build-in intelligence within our metrology software, but also how we are building capability bridges with our simulation and production software solutions. 

Discover how little known techniques in SURFCAM can significantly improve your user experience and productivity.

Hear about the exciting new future of MSC as part of Hexagon as Paolo Guglielmini, CEO shares the updated corporate vision, strategy, and roadmap along with some exciting new innovations. 

Learn how to maximise return on your investment in this session exploring features and functionality of EDGECAM released in the last 12 months.

Hexagon invites you to the North America launch of EDGECAM 2020, the very latest production software technology. This session will help users understand how EDGECAM will enable you to achieve your productivity and smart factory goals.

Hexagon invites you to the North America launch of SURFCAM 2020, the very latest production software technology. This session will help users understand how SURFCAM will enable you to achieve your productivity and smart factory goals.

Demonstrating the deep integration between with Hexagon's production software and measuring system offerings, this session highlights a new direct link to the Leica 3D Disto. Following successful integration with the DISTO S910, this solution further automates the process of retrieving accurate field measurements.

When in 2014 SAE outlined the six levels of driving automation, it inspired a step-by-step approach from Level 0 (no automation) to Level 5 (full automation). The proposed path envisaged a seamless transition from an era where cars only had ABS to an era where you can summon your 'mobility device' just touching your smartphone. Does this vision still hold? What have we learned in the past 5 years? How can we best prepare for this exciting future? One thing is becoming clear; full autonomy will be out of reach if the development of these capabilities is not shifted from the roads to simulation. Fortunately, simulation tools have made gigantic steps in the recent years - join this session to see how Hexagon's MSC Software is approaching this exciting new topic.

No single factory has all the resources or capabilities to capture, defend, and win in design, production, quality control and autonomous processes, nor all the other areas where data must be leveraged in order to remain competitive. Yet, making our factories smarter today is an urgent imperative. Join Norbert Hanke, President of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, as he uncovers some surprising places where smart is hiding in plain sight and shares the solutions taking shape that will drive increased quality and productivity throughout your factory’s entire ecosystem.

See and experience Inspire at HxGN LIVE for the first time! Inspire is Hexagon's new-generation metrology software, designed to be intuitive, powerful and future-ready. In this session you will learn directly from the development team the vision for Inspire, how its simplicity-by-design focus will get you measuring faster and how Inspire fits into your business and metrology needs.

Hear what's on the horizon for EDGECAM product development.

Hear what's on the horizon for SURFCAM product development.

Hear what's on the horizon for CABINET VISION product development.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence recently had the privilege of participating in the SME "3D in the D" Scanning event in Detroit, Michigan. This event highlighted the diverse landscape of scanning challenges and the technologies that allow us to capture reality in the form of a 3D point cloud. This hands-on opportunity spoke to the larger question of "what is the correct technology that I should use when and why?" In today's constantly evolving measurement industry filled with different types of scanners, many are asking this question. In this presentation, we will share experiences spanning different technologies used to scan something the size of the Michigan Central Station, a sister railway station to New York's famous Grand Central Station, to the stone statue of a tiger outside of Comerica Park. The presentation will also discuss happens if the object must further decrease in size to something the size of a complex aerospace assembly, or a small intricate casting. Joel Martin, Laser Tracker Product Line Manager for Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, will highlight why each scan was done with the corresponding technology and expand into other potential solutions could have been chosen for the task at hand. The key concepts discussed in this presentation include: 1) Real-world usage of Terrestrial Laser Scanners, Handheld Laser Scanners, Articulated Arms and Laser Trackers 2) Understanding the specifications and what is the appropriate scanning tool for large, medium and small sized objects 3) The end result of each scanning technologies deliverable product

Ground vehicle technology has advanced significantly this decade. The presentations in this session discuss simulation methods and its application to autonomous technology and electric vehicles. Presentations include the following guest speakers: o General Motors Corporation - Advanced Virtual ADAS, General Motors Corporation o Honda and Minds.ai. - Designing Controllers Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Adams™ Simulator o AVL North America - A Scenario-Based Approach for Verification, Validation and Certification of Highly Automated Vehicles o FEV - Electro-mechanical Powertrain NVH Simulation in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles o U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Center, Ground Vehicle Systems Center (formerly TARDEC)

Additive manufacturing and composite materials are providing engineers with high performance alternatives to traditional design methods and material selection. This session features multiple presentations discussing the latest simulation methods for additive manufacturing and composites. Presentations include: o MSC Software - 10x Materials Solution Presented by Roger Assaker, CEO e-Xstream Engineering (an MSC Software Company) o Stratasys - Enabling Production of Additively Manufactured Aircraft Interiors o Purdue University - Industry 4.0 for Composites Manufacturing: - A Unique Merger of Hardware and Software to Shorten "Time to Market" o DSM Additive - How Digital Tools Will Accelerate the Additive Manufacturing Industry o Hexcel - Additive Manufacturing Simulations in Hexcel - a Case Study

NIST and the Y14.5.1 subcommittee provided the new mathematical definitions for datum features in ASME Y14.5 - 2018. NIST will explain and provide graphical examples on how the math calculations behave for various datum features based on point data from a coordinate measuring system. 

In this session, learn how to leverage the digital twin to provide benefits beyond toolpath creation using existing EDGECAM software intelligence.

Discover how little known techniques in SURFCAM can significantly improve your user experience and productivity.

In this session for CABINET VISION users, see the all-new CAD options available for serving the needs of your commercial clients and learn how you can implement them into your system.

The manufacturing industry is a journey to Industry 4.0 journey. In the quest to make machines wireless and operations smarter, petabytes of data are being generated and streamed for analysis. The requirements for intelligent automation and concepts like digital twins in the production line call for a fast, stable, secure and simple connectivity solution. Join us to learn about Ericsson Industry Connect, a turnkey solution that solves the connectivity needs of the smart factory or warehouse with an unequalled level of ease. Together we will breeze through the current state of the factory floor and see how you could start now with a simple, stable and secure private 4G solution with a path to 5G – all designed to make your factory more efficient. 

Learn how to improve your productivity when executing your metrology programs. See how the new features and capabilities can optimise measurement cycles, protect your routine integrity and increase throughput. Learn about the new Pallet feature, see how to run routines from a central server and see how Inspect simplifies the Operator experience whilst leaving you in full control.

See how EDGECAM automation can enhance your user experience, simplify common tasks and provide standardisation throughout your production process.

Discover the tools and technology surrounding SURFCAM that allow you to make the most of your production software solution.

Additive manufacturing is a fast growing market, but getting the part printed in the necessary quality is still a time-consuming process. This presentation will demonstrate how Hexagon's MSC Software technology can help to accelerate the manufacturing design process and get the part right first time. Several use cases will be presented, showing how to create a digital twin of the whole process chain taking the main important process steps into account. The session will provide understanding about today's possibilities and look forward to future solutions for additive manufacturing.

We simulate to understand the physical world, without encountering the constraints that the physical world imposes. In this session, you’ll learn how Hexagon’s MSC Software simulation tools are being evolved to address problems in metrology. The session focuses on use of virtual clamping and virtual CAE assembly to save time and increase productivity.

An EDGECAM customer tells their story of how the software has helped drive productivity in their business.

eMMA is a full-featured dimensional data management and quality tool for the stamping, forming, and general parts assembly industries. eMMA is metrology-system agnostic and is scalable for the smallest to the largest manufacturing company, providing support through the entire Product Lifecycle. This session will outline the management of Planning, Manufacturing, and Monitoring functions, including 3D Root Cause Analysis of scanned data.

Learn more about how your software support team can enhance your user experience with time for questions and answers!

Over the past few years, the PC-DMIS Idea Center has been collecting your feedback and suggestions. In this session Neil will present success stories and features in the pipeline that have come directly from you, our valued clients. He will show how Idea Center has been used alongside our product analytics from the ‘Customer Experience Improvement Program’ to shape PC-DMIS. Looking forward, Neil will talk about Idea Center’s future strategy and what we are doing to make it easier for you to contribute and get involved in the PC-DMIS user community.

A SURFCAM customer tells their story of how the software has helped drive productivity in their business.

Q-DAS provides software for automatic data collection and statistical process control (SPC) of CMM and gauge data for parts machining, shaping, and forming. There are more than 100 different Certified Global Suppliers of Measurement, Test, and Assembly Systems and more than 300 different RS-232 and USB devices that are capable of direct communication with Q-DAS software products. Integration of additional data sources like PLC, Analog, Digital devices and torque guns are also possible. This session will outline how manufacturing companies of every size can prepare their plant for support of Industry 4.0 and the prevailing ISO/SAE/DIN standards for manufacturing.

Learn more about how your software support team can enhance your user experience with time for questions and answers!

Learn more about how your software support team can enhance your user experience with time for questions and answers!

In this session Brian Shepherd, EVP Software Solutions, will overview all of the solutions Hexagon offers for smarter manufacturing. This session will also explain how we are using Xalt to deliver new and exciting solutions that deliver greater quality and productivity by driving convergence between traditionally siloed functions in the factory.

With aircraft market demand doubling in the next 20 years and 40 000 new aircraft to be delivered globally, the aerospace industry is embracing the benefits of powerful digital technologies. Aerospace OEMs, along with their supply chain manufacturers, are increasing production rates while accounting for both legacy and modern factory setups. Join us to discuss how Hexagon is working to increase aerospace productivity by improving designs, optimising manufacturing processes and reducing production defects. In this session, we will discuss the digital transformation challenges in our factories and look at a few keys to unlock the power of digitisation. Together with our aerospace customers, we will cruise through multiphysics cosimulation techniques, new manufacturing process simulation tools, and hardware and software automation - all designed to increase aerospace productivity.