

Hexagon’s technologies help produce 95% of all cars, 90% of all aircraft and 85% of all smartphones made every year, and this cohort has secured a place on the company’s Sixth Sense open innovation scaling platform, which will help them fast-track their idea to global commercialisation by gaining access to Hexagon’s precious market and customer insights.Ī cloud-based no-code AI platform with which anyone can build an app for visual inspection or monitoring of mission-critical applications, including monitoring correct use of Personal Protective Equipment, quality inspection in automotive lines, reducing operational costs, improving quality and boosting productivity.

Each one addresses several critical pain points for high value technology companies, such as improving sustainability, harnessing AI, ML and the cloud more efficiently, easing the sharing of data and mitigating the effects of manufacturing’s growing skills gap with greater autonomy and low- and no-code solutions. The start-ups were chosen by a panel of market experts based on the merit of their innovation, business model, commercial viability, and potential to tap into common manufacturing challenges. Seven disruptive manufacturing AI and data optimisation start-ups have been identified by tech leader Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division as contenders for the sector’s “next big thing”.

The founders are now close to completing an intensive 10-week programme to prove their product and business model, and secure the chance to launch to Hexagon’s customer base of global market leaders.Start-ups focused on lowering barriers of entry to AI and data optimisation, developing everything from virtual “Sims-style” AI factories to “fingerprints” for 3D printed parts.Seven-strong cohort chosen out of more than 100 applicants for Hexagon’s revolutionary new open innovation platform, Sixth Sense.
