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44 MMS August 2017 mmsonline.com SHOP TALK Focused on "smart" factories, cities, mines and more, Hexagon's annual conference opened with an inspiring keynote address on the "limitless possibilities" of an interconnected world. Yet, however limitless the future, HxGN Live also clarified the extent of the possibilities available in the present. Hosted June 13-16, at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, the annual event attracted 3,000 end users and partners hailing from indus- tries ranging from security to transportation to utilities. Based on presentations and demonstra- tions from the company's Manufacturing Intelligence division, the promise associated with data-driven manufacturing of discrete parts is very real, and at least for Hexagon, most of the proverbial puzzle pieces are now in place. T he di v ision for m e r l y k now n a s H exagon Metrology continues to expand beyond such brands as Browne and Sharpe, Leica, and Romer to offer more than just dedicated measurement equipment and sof tware. Renamed Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence two years ago, it also provides CAD/CAM systems from Vero Software, statistical analytics from Q-DAS and, most recently, simulation systems from MSC Software, among other complementary offerings. In fact, the company is building a smart factory of its own in Hongdao, China, Hexagon's largest market (the United States is No. 2). It will be driven by data from its very inception, with the company leveraging its own HxGN Smart Build enterprise solution to drive construction and keep the proj- ect on track for completion by 2020. From there, the production of scanning systems, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and other products HEXAGON CONFERENCE CLOSES THE LOOP ON DATA-DRIVEN MANUFACTURING BY M AT T DA N FO R D On the exhibit floor of HxGN Live in Las Vegas, Nevada, an Aicon 3D-measuring system combines the real and virtual in an application which projects a color map of surface devia- tions as well as overlaid data onto the actual part surface.