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Digitalizing Your Fabrication Process: Better Visibility Means Happier Customers

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DIGITALIZING YOUR FABRICATION PROCESS

Better Visibility
Means Happier
Customers

Thanks to technology, we have become the most efficient Digitalizing work processes can improve efficiency, reduce
versions of ourselves. Calendar notifications, reminders, news errors, and enable visibility at all stages of the workflow. This
alerts, traffic forecasting- our devices can walk us through is what is commonly referred to as the “Fourth Industrial
every step of every day. Revolution” or “Industry 4.0.”

We are constantly being bombarded with notifications - texts, Consider a typical workflow. Currently most fabricators control
emails, app updates - but one we might be interested in and manage processes electronically using, for example,
seeing is the notification we get from our navigation app- how Microsoft Excel, which constitutes an electronic workflow, not
long will it take to get to work today? Apps like Google Maps, an Industry 4.0 digital workflow.
Waze, and MapQuest can forecast road conditions, alert us
to accidents, estimate our time of arrival, provide alternate It is now possible to transform your fabrication shop into an
routes, and talk us through our morning commute - turn by efficient digital operation, improve productivity, and reduce
turn. waste while having full visibility at each step - from initial
customer request through the fabrication and inspection
Advancements in tracking have even enabled us to follow the processes to final spool packing and delivery.
movements of our purchases. From purchase, to receipt, to
delivery - we are updated at every stage. We can take comfort Hexagon’s Digital Fabricator solution can enable your business
in knowing that our order has been shipped and delivered to efficiently complete important processes:
safely to our doorstep- even if we are in another country.
• Sales
Our reality has become one of relying on devices to guide us • Work Preparation
through our everyday lives, step by step.
• Fabrication
• Delivery
What if fabrication shops had this kind of visibility?
Save Keep promised
materials by
delivery times
1 - 5% Effective use of
Speed up remnants
quotation calculation
30 - 80%
Increased Accuracy

Close to
100%
Reduce storage
-60%

With the Hexagon fabrication solutions, through links with Let us help you on your journey to digital fabrication and
your material and fabrication processes, we can enable you to wake up to the notifications you need to manage your daily
have full visibility of your fabrication status at every step, from fabrication. Take the first step today at hexagonppm.com/
initial material availability, through each step in the fabrication digitalfabricator.
process, through to inspection, packaging and delivery.

This enables you, to check material availability, check


workshop status, personnel and machine availability, and then
perform forward and or backward planning to ensure that
you have accurate and achievable delivery dates on creation
of quotations and on order receipt. Keeping your customers
happy and on target with their plans. Real-time fabrication
information also allows you to forecast the capacity and
material needs for the future.

ABOUT HEXAGON
Hexagon is a global leader in digital solutions that create Autonomous Connected Ecosystems (ACE). Our industry-specific solutions create smart
digital realities that improve productivity and quality across manufacturing, infrastructure, safety and mobility applications.

Hexagon’s PPM division empowers its clients to transform unstructured information into a smart digital asset to visualize, build and manage
structures and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire lifecycle.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 20,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.5bn EUR. Learn
more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

© 2019 Hexagon AB and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All rights reserved. 01/19 PPM-US-0687A-ENG

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