The partnership aims to transform collaboration across the manufacturing value chain and apply digital twins to accelerate product innovation.
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced its strategic partnership with Microsoft, which aims to redefine how engineers collaborate and enable the discrete manufacturing industry.
Stephen Graham, EVP and General Manager Nexus at Hexagon said: “At Hexagon, we’re on a mission to empower the workforce by presenting them with the best available information as soon as possible and helping them to close the gap between their optimal-performance virtual designs and the physical products that they manufacture. We have achieved a huge amount with Microsoft in a few short months by collaborating closely and applying their best cloud technologies to unlock new ways of collaborating and sharing data.
Aleš Holeček, Corporate Vice President Office Product Group, at Microsoft said, “Microsoft’s collaboration with Hexagon is driven by a shared belief that the future of work and productivity is grounded in collaboration. Similar to how Microsoft applied the Fluid Framework to our own Microsoft 365 applications, Hexagon has extended that same open-source data fabric to manufacturing problems, enabling real-time collaboration between the many engineering disciplines it takes to make a great product, through its Nexus platform running on Microsoft Azure. It’s something that will push the boundaries for workplace collaboration for both of our platforms as we connect productivity with the engineering and operational technologies ‘makers’ need to be productive today.”
The collaboration will offer solutions that use modern cloud infrastructure to connect manufacturing and engineering systems, including Microsoft 365 in Hexagon’s Nexus digital reality platform for manufacturers, and help employees increase their productivity through cloud-accelerated simulation and AI.
