Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched its new digitalisation answer, Digital Manufacturing facility, designed to assist producers construct extremely correct digital replicas of their factories. It permits producers to optimise their ground plans and rapidly pivot manufacturing strains right now, and function smarter and extra sustainable future factories with open interfaces that join digital twins of shopfloor property. Such options may save a worldwide manufacturing firm £35 million per 12 months* by avoiding expensive errors and providing a 50% discount within the typical journey prices and the on-site coaching required.
Hexagon is uniquely positioned to deal with this subject by 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 homeowners – to rethink their manufacturing tools and use of house.
In line with analysis carried out by Forrester and commissioned by Hexagon, 32% of producers consider that outdated or ineffective guide processes and workflows are obstacles to productiveness and collaboration. Digital Manufacturing facility is a future-ready different to conventional manufacturing unit planning that permits producers to not solely ramp up productiveness, but additionally enhance effectivity in remodelling, stopping expensive errors. It additionally empowers extra environment friendly collaboration between manufacturing and operations groups from anyplace on this planet. The core of this answer is improved entry to up-to-date knowledge in immersive digital environments that replicate actuality, addressing a serious barrier that sensible manufacturing unit initiatives face right now.
Digital Manufacturing facility 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 ground. 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 knowledge from Hexagon or a buyer’s most popular scanning {hardware} to recreate up-to-date 3D areas with velocity and adaptability.
Hexagon gives full workflows to make sure producers obtain the utmost worth, from scanning the manufacturing unit and processing the information into actionable 3D fashions for numerous purposes, to managing the information within the cloud, making it simpler for group members and exterior stakeholders to offer suggestions and make knowledgeable selections. By utilizing Digital Manufacturing facility, producers will have the ability to:
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 group collaboration – Facilitate distant collaboration amongst key groups and stakeholders at any time, utilizing cloud-based instruments with evaluation and modelling capabilities with on-demand knowledge. Manufacturing facility planners and manufacturing managers could make selections remotely and supply suggestions with confidence primarily based on dependable and up-to-date knowledge.
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 anyplace. Manufacturing facility homeowners can often monitor the progress of manufacturing strains beneath building in meticulous element, avoiding the prices related to sudden errors.
Simply improve and set up tools – Introduce and improve equipment resembling machining centres, 3D printers, robotics and metrology methods by evaluating their addition or alternative in a risk-free digital mannequin. This helps stop costly errors resembling ordering incorrect elements, not having ample footprint or entry to put in a machine.
Create operational test-beds and innovate quicker – By testing out new machines, manufacturing unit ground layouts and workflows within the digital 3D surroundings, corporations can rapidly establish feasibility and emissions concerns, enabling them to higher perceive the potential advantages of recent expertise and make future-ready sensible factories a actuality.
