Hexagon
Josh Weiss from Hexagon and Daniel Cortina from SEAT S.A.
Hexagon and automotive manufacturer SEAT S.A. have announced the expansion of its 25-year partnership. Having signed a strategic agreement, the duo aim to deepen SEAT S.A.'s digital transformation, with a particular focus on the digitalisation of vehicle components, the management of digitalised information, and process simulation.
Through this partnership, SEAT S.A. hopes to optimise its production processes by making decisions in real time. Since the partnership began, the digital reality solutions provider has helped SEAT S.A. enhance its measurement and quality control systems. With the extension, the duo now hopes to integrate digital twin technology, applying it to metrology data, to enhance process simulations, predict outcomes and improve manufacturing efficiency. The end goal of these innovations is to reduce costs and take efficiency to the next level.
“We are committed to helping SEAT S.A. stay at the forefront of the automotive industry by implementing innovative digital processes that transform agility in manufacturing and take control of quality from the start,” said Josh Weiss, President of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence Division. “By combining technologies such as automated quality inspection, connected quality workflows and virtual manufacturing, SEAT S.A. can supervise each stage of production with significant savings in time, material waste and costs.”
Daniel Cortina, Director of Quality at SEAT S.A., added, “At SEAT S.A. we are at a time of unprecedented transformation for our company towards smarter, more connected and efficient production, which involves the digital transformation of our production processes. Now we will not only acquire data about the quality of our parts faster and more accurately, but we will also be able to improve manufacturing performance with them. This predictive approach to quality allows us to improve our customer satisfaction as well as significantly reduce the materials used in the manufacturing process, reinforcing our commitment to sustainability.”
The three pillars of Hexagon and SEAT S.A.’s partnership:
- The digitalisation of manufactured parts: Utilising Hexagon’s PRESTO system, SEAT S.A. will gain access to fully automated, high-precision 3D laser scanning of entire objects, providing high-speed robotic inspection. As a result, the entire body of a car can be accurately measured and evaluated in real time.
- Manage digitised information: With Hexagon’s eMMA data management, quality planning, and analytics platform, SEAT S.A. The solution works by automatically capturing metrology data from either Hexagon or other parties’ measurement systems. This allows for improved decision-making and condition monitoring of parts.
- Process simulation: Providing quality analysts with the ability to accurately predict issues and optimise vehicle manufacturing processes, Hexagon’s simulation solutions can fine-tune production settings to speed up processes while ensuring efficiency levels. This can lead to reductions in cost and waste as well as improvements in time-to-market.