Company Profile

Hexagon is a world leader in CAD CAM software with a proven track record of reliable product delivery. Hexagon develops and distributes software for aiding the design and manufacturing processes, providing solutions for the tooling, production engineering, sheet metal, metal fabrication, stone and woodworking industries. The company's world-renowned brands include ALPHACAM, CABINET VISION, EDGECAM, Machining STRATEGIST, PEPS, RADAN, SMIRTSURFCAM, VISI, and WORKNC, along with the ERP/MRP systems JAVELIN and WORKPLAN. Despite the diversity of application, these solutions have one thing in common: they all address the rising challenges of achieving manufacturing efficiencies and bring huge value to the operations where they are deployed.

The company has direct offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, USA, Brazil, Netherlands, China, Korea, Spain and India supplying products to more than 45 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and reseller network.

Hexagon’s Product Portfolio addresses the worldwide need for CAD / CAM / CAE software in a large variety of focussed manufacturing processes. For example, the Hexagon stable includes mechanical design and manufacturing software that is specialised for a range of niche sectors such as those found within the mould and die making sector. Both the VISI and WORKNC product families incorporate specific process knowledge that enables the designer or machinist to achieve complex and precise components in a fraction of the time used by more generic CAD CAM software systems. VISI is acknowledged as the world’s leading, fully integrated design and manufacturing solution for the Mould & Die industry offering applications for 3D tool design, plastic flow analysis and comprehensive multi-axis milling strategies. WORKNC is a premier CAM solution providing 2D to 5-axis machining for the most demanding industries such as Automotive, Aerospace and Mould & Die. Other applications within the WORKNC product suite include, WORKNC DENTAL, WORKXPLORE, as well as WORKPLAN, an ERP and job management platform for custom manufacturers. Providing a solution for each step in the process of design, analysis, machine and build, Hexagon is unique in supplying such comprehensive technology for the mould and die industry.

For the production machining market EDGECAM solutions combine the power of sophisticated toolpath generation with seamless CAD integration. Used globally within a multitude of industries, EDGECAM consistently produces high quality toolpaths to ultimately improve productivity.

SURFCAM is a CAM solution that achieves the perfect balance between feature sets and ease of use. With an unrivalled out of the box experience, SURFCAM provides a great entry-level CAM platform, full of functionality and one to help your business become even more productive and profitable.

ALPHACAM is the leading CAM solution for wood, metal, stone and composite components providing 2 Axis through to 5 Axis programming solutions. The emphasis behind the development of ALPHACAM is to provide our customers with productivity, reliability, and flexibility.

In the world of sheet metal, material utilisation is top priority. RADAN significantly reduces inventory and realises true return on investment.  RADAN is a well established, market leader providing applications that are essential to the design and manufacture (punching, profiling, nesting and bending) of sheet metal components and products.

CABINET VISION is a unique solution for those in the woodworking industry. Our products help enable any furniture, woodworking or kitchen cabinet manufacturer to fully automate and integrate its design through manufacturing processes, saving time, eliminating costly mistakes and increasing productivity.

The company firmly believes that step gains in productivity can be made by building as much knowledge of specific design and machining processes within our software as possible. The unique way in which our collection of software products can be integrated allows us to work very closely with our customers to determine the right solution to suit their individual needs. Hexagon products are integral to the success of thousands of companies worldwide, from small to large and across every aspect of the manufacturing spectrum.

Part of Hexagon

Hexagon is part of Hexagon, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications.

Hexagon’s solutions integrate sensors, software, domain knowledge and customer workflows into intelligent information ecosystems that deliver actionable information. They are used in a broad range of vital industries.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 18,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.1bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

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