Hexagon and NVIDIA partner up to innovate industrial digital twin solutions

Hexagon has joined forces with NVIDIA in a collaborative effort to advance industrial digital twin solutions that combine reality capture, manufacturing twins, AI, simulation and visualization. The goal is to deliver real-time comparisons to real-world models.

This partnership integrates advanced technologies from Hexagon and NVIDIA, enabling smooth and efficient workflows for multiple users through a unified view. This unified view facilitates factory planning and design, and streamlines process quality optimization and operations, leveraging the expertise of both companies.

As part of the collaboration, Hexagon’s HxDR reality capture platform and the Nexus manufacturing platform will be connected to NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing and operating industrial metaverse applications, based on the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework. The connected platforms provide complementary technologies that enable customers to advance manufacturing for digital factories and accelerate the power of digital twins for intelligent cities, construction and infrastructure.

360-degree picture

“Our Hexagon innovation team has been working with NVIDIA to develop opportunities that unite reality capture, AI, simulation, data analysis and visualization with seamless collaborative planning platforms,” said Paolo Guglielmini, president and CEO of Hexagon. “With NVIDIA technologies and Hexagon’s Smart Digital Realities, our solutions will deliver real-time comparisons of real- and virtual-world models.”

Through real-time data capture and analysis, Hexagon’s Smart Digital Realities transform digital twins to provide customers with a 360-degree picture of the real world that helps improve productivity, quality, safety and profitability when used with simulated solutions.

“Every industry is racing to digitalize their physical processes for the next wave of advanced automation,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. “In collaboration with Hexagon, we’ll bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds – a prerequisite for building digital twins – allowing us to train robots in virtual worlds and bring autonomy to everything that moves."