Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched its new digitalisation resolution, Digital Manufacturing unit, designed to assist producers construct extremely correct digital replicas of their factories. It permits producers to optimise their flooring plans and rapidly pivot manufacturing traces in the present day, and function smarter and extra sustainable future factories with open interfaces that join digital twins of shopfloor belongings. Such options might save a world manufacturing firm £35 million per 12 months* by avoiding pricey errors and providing a 50% discount within the typical journey prices and the on-site coaching required.
Hexagon is uniquely positioned to handle this difficulty by way of its experience in delivering best-in-class accuracy actuality seize and surveying tools, software program to visualise, discover and simulate eventualities in 3D, and high-productivity cloud-native collaboration workflows. Digitalisation applied sciences are a confirmed expertise and have been used for over twenty years in civil infrastructure, structure and public security, however their potential has but to be absolutely realised within the manufacturing house the place vital disruption now requires producers – specifically brownfield web site house owners – to rethink their manufacturing tools and use of house.
In accordance with analysis performed by Forrester and commissioned by Hexagon, 32% of producers imagine that outdated or ineffective guide processes and workflows are boundaries to productiveness and collaboration. Digital Manufacturing unit is a future-ready various to conventional manufacturing unit planning that permits producers to not solely ramp up productiveness, but in addition improve effectivity in remodelling, stopping pricey errors. It additionally empowers extra environment friendly collaboration between manufacturing and operations groups from wherever on the earth. The core of this resolution is improved entry to up-to-date information in immersive digital environments that mirror actuality, addressing a significant barrier that good manufacturing unit initiatives face in the present day.
Digital Manufacturing unit leverages a complete portfolio of {hardware} and software program options that features Hexagon’s award-winning vary of actuality seize expertise – such because the Leica BLK2GO handheld imaging laser scanner, the Leica BLK ARC autonomous scanning module for robotic and cellular carriers and terrestrial laser scanners just like the Leica RTC360 – that enable producers to seize and create dimensionally-accurate level clouds of the manufacturing unit flooring. Utilizing the Leica Cyclone software program portfolio and Hexagon’s Actuality Cloud Studio, powered by the HxDR, producers can simply collaborate and rapidly course of information from Hexagon or a buyer’s most well-liked scanning {hardware} to recreate up-to-date 3D areas with pace and suppleness.
Hexagon provides full workflows to make sure producers obtain the utmost worth, from scanning the manufacturing unit and processing the information into actionable 3D fashions for varied purposes, to managing the information within the cloud, making it simpler for workforce members and exterior stakeholders to offer suggestions and make knowledgeable selections. Through the use of Digital Manufacturing unit, producers will be capable of:
Conduct digital excursions for distant manufacturing unit monitoring – Lead a digital tour of a manufacturing unit with distant entry, eliminating the necessity for managers and contractors to journey onsite.
Distant workforce collaboration – Facilitate distant collaboration amongst key groups and stakeholders at any time, utilizing cloud-based instruments with evaluation and modelling capabilities with on-demand information. Manufacturing unit planners and manufacturing managers could make selections remotely and supply suggestions with confidence primarily based on dependable and up-to-date information.
Plan and rework manufacturing unit layouts with accuracy and element – Seize exact measurements of a manufacturing unit, creating a precise and dependable digital mannequin that may be accessed anytime from wherever. Manufacturing unit house owners can commonly monitor the progress of manufacturing traces underneath development in meticulous element, avoiding the prices related to sudden errors.
Simply improve and set up tools – Introduce and improve equipment reminiscent of machining centres, 3D printers, robotics and metrology programs by evaluating their addition or alternative in a risk-free digital mannequin. This helps forestall costly errors reminiscent of ordering incorrect components, not having enough footprint or entry to put in a machine.
Create operational test-beds and innovate quicker – By testing out new machines, manufacturing unit flooring layouts and workflows within the digital 3D atmosphere, firms can rapidly establish feasibility and emissions concerns, enabling them to raised perceive the potential advantages of recent expertise and make future-ready good factories a actuality.
