The goal is to create a digital thread and actionable manufacturing intelligence that would allow manufacturers to better identify and correct potential production problems early in the cycle when it is easier and more cost-effective to make changes. The $834 million deal, the biggest for Hexagon since it snapped up engineering software provider Intergraph for $2.1 billion in 2010, was positioned as a move to create a portfolio of offerings that connect design and production. At Hexagon | MSC Software we help companies accelerate green technologies and deliver renewable solutions to drive the shift toward a sustainable future.MSC Software, a stalwart of the simulation industry and some of the brains behind the NASTRAN general purpose structural analysis program, is joining forces with Hexagon AB, a Swedish measurement and technology company, to firm up a play in automated manufacturing.

CAE delivers manufacturing cost savings, productivity improvements, and ultimately quality products designed with the intent to meet all environmental challenges today from your conceptual idea to your product’s full lifecycle in the circular economy. “CAE today is proven to reduce waste at the conceptual design stage reducing physical prototyping, minimizing acoustic pollution, delivering right-first-time customized and lightweight solutions, ensuring energy efficient buildings, optimizing materials usage and fueling the renewables revolution. Yet, all these contribute to CO 2 emissions and environmental pollution as well as intensive use of our world’s precious materials, water and energy natural resources.”

Hexagon MSC Software addresses the use of CAE software in the Design for Sustainability – “Manufacturing processes today span everything from aerospace to automotive, chemical processing to oil & gas, and electronics to shipbuilding.

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