Aerospace industry

Transforming aircraft design, development, operations and maintenance through data-driven aerospace solutions.

Aerospace industry

Enabling efficient and sustainable aviation

Digitalising aircraft development and operations to keep the world in transit.

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Hexagon’s aerospace technology and software solutions help the aerospace industry deliver new generations of aircraft while reducing development and production cycles.

Our aerospace solutions use data throughout the product lifecycle to accelerate aerospace innovation, manufacture aircraft efficiently, provide data integrity for navigation systems and ensure safe aviation operations.

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  • Overview
  • Manufacturing
  • Autonomous mobility
  • Cities and nations
  • Defence
Overview
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Manufacturing
The aerospace industry is under pressure to deliver sustainable aviation and reduce costs. Smart manufacturing can accelerate innovation, optimise aircraft design and maximise production-cycle efficiency. See how Hexagon’s aerospace software is giving the aerospace industry the agility it needs to operate sustainably

Design and engineering phase

With Hexagon’s innovations in manufacturing technology, users can digitally simulate and optimise product design and engineering to ensure component manufacturability, production productivity and output quality.

Production phase

Maintain a digital thread through production, optimise machine tools, measure environmental variances and prevent downtime with predictive data analyses.

Inspection phase

Automate and digitalise quality measurement with our world-leading metrology hardware and software, creating a bridge between the real and digital worlds.

Digital transformation

Deploy Hexagon’s sensor software systems to transform siloed and disconnected processes into an integrated, data-driven manufacturing ecosystem that captures and creates value across the product lifecycle, enabling new business models and automating workflows to become increasingly autonomous, efficient and sustainable.

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Autonomous mobility
No matter the size of your platform, Hexagon has the positioning technologies, perception sensors and skillsets to enable autonomy for aerospace innovation.

Enabling solutions

Autonomous mobility research and development platforms that enable automation functionality across a diverse set of control systems and industrial applications.

Accelerating solutions

Autonomous mobility testing that creates a seamless workflow between real-world and simulated environments to accelerate, optimise, verify and validate billions of test drive kilometres and real-world scenarios.

Deployment solutions

Deploying autonomous solutions that enable customers to quickly scale from prototype R&D and testing phases to full production in a variety of emerging and fast-paced market segments.

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Cities and nations
For aviation authorities regulating diverse airspaces, ensuring passenger safety and managing daily operations presents complex challenges. Explore how Hexagon’s aerospace technologies help cities and nations improve aviation operations through data, better visualisation and analysis and incident management.

Mapping solutions

Leverage location intelligence with solutions that capture, visualise, analyse and derive insights from location data to address a variety of urban and national challenges.

Public administration solutions

Easily share data for census, cadastral management, public works and interagency situational awareness with cloud-based applications and collaborative solutions.

Transportation solutions

Deploy intuitive, integrated solutions for roads, railways, aviation and maritime to ensure effective planning and operations and enhance safety with minimal disruption.

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Defence
Ensuring safe operations and protecting national airspaces presents many challenges. See how Hexagon helps air forces and defence organisations improve mission readiness and achieve assured positioning, navigation and timing through threat detection, situational awareness and digital battlefield technologies.

C4ISR solutions

Deploy high-performance visualisation and analysis applications for C4ISR across air, land, sea and joint battlefield operations and command centre strategies.

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