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Accelerating electrification
Driving a smarter, more sustainable future
for mobility
100% of vehicles in the
world need to be electric

It’s an ambitious goal dependent on

many factors, but it’s one we believe
is worth working towards. This is why
Hexagon has created 100%EV - to
help accelerate electrification.
EVs are predicted to represent a third of the automotive market by 2025 and 51%
by 2030*. But we believe the automotive industry can make this shift even faster,
and we want to support your efforts to do so.

We offer a set of smart manufacturing technologies for engineers, designers and

OEMs, blending our experience in automotive design and engineering, production
and metrology to make the journey toward 100%EV faster and
more cost-effective.

This holistic approach is helping OEMs power toward a new EV future, creating
a smarter, more sustainable world for us all.

Plug in to
progress

Dive deeper into the 100%EV story

now at hexagonmi.com/emobility

*Source: Boston Consulting Group, 2020

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 2025 2030 2035 2050

China Japan USA Germany

25% of vehicles to 23-33% electric California 100% electric
be electric passenger vehicles No new gasoline passenger vehicles
or diesel powered
passenger cars

Sources: International Council On Clean Transportation

and The Wall Street Journal
Meet tomorrow’s
EV goals today
Electrification is the biggest
disruption to the automotive industry
in decades. It is challenging industry
norms from consumer demand
through to manufacturing operations
and even sales models.
Consumer awareness of sustainability and environmental issues is increasing
interest in eMobility. The desirability factor of EVs is also high, driven by our
fast-moving technology culture. While many drivers may not have a clear image of
what their perfect EV looks like, the demand for cleaner, safer and more exciting
vehicles is growing every day.

Environmental targets are also driving dynamic regulatory change in the

automotive industry. Seventy-three countries have announced 100%
net-zero CO₂ targets by 2050, but globally shared targets are a long way off. Many
OEMs also have their own EV targets in place – all increasing the demands on
designers working to meet the needs of each local market.

Despite the relative immaturity of the global market, EV sales continued to rise
during the global COVID-19 lockdowns in stark contrast to sales of their internal
combustion engine counterparts. With eMobility seen as the forerunner to the
digitally connected, autonomous cars of the future, getting ahead of EV demands
today will put manufacturers in pole position for the next revolution.

EV needs more
variety and lower
volumes, a rethink
of established
industry models”

Source: Boston Consulting Group, 2020

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Electric motors Body structures Cabin interiors Exterior and
aerodynamics

Batteries and Drivetrains Power electronics New materials

fuel cells development

Plug into a holistic suite of eMobility

solutions for design and engineering,
production and metrology.

Hexagon offers an integrated approach to improve, speed up and

simplify the development of electric vehicles by targeting key
challenges facing designers, engineers and manufacturers.

We tackle your biggest EV challenges head on, including:

• Range anxiety • Noise, vibration and harshness

• Thermal management • Safety
• Quality and performance • Environmental impact
 he time is right to combine
T
and commit our thinking,
resource and solutions to
speed up the evolution and
adoption of eMobility.”
Paolo Guglielmini.
President, Manufacturing Intelligence division
Hexagon

If you’re ready to accelerate electrification

let’s start powering your engine
Customer stories

Together we can drive a faster, more

integrated approach. Join with us to
shape the design, development and
production of your electric vehicles.
Customer story: Renault

Predicting noise from

the electric motor

Challenge

End users expect electric vehicles to be

very quiet. Renault needs to guarantee NVH
requirements of new motors before physical
prototyping in the development of a new
electric powertrain.

Solution

The MSC Nastran software from

Hexagon reads electromagnetic forces,
calculated externally. Then, vibration
levels obtained by MSC Nastran are
input into Actran acoustics software
to predict the radiating noise.

Benefits

Actran and MSC Nastran are used for performing

the virtual prototyping validation at the end of the
design cycle.

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 Customer story: H. V. Wooding

Electric motor part

quotation and production

Challenge

H. V. Wooding manufactures critical components for

the electric vehicle (EV) powertrain, including precision
motor laminations and a wide range
of customer-specified busbars that form part of the
electrical connection. It needed an efficient solution
to manage these high-precision customised parts from
quotation to production.

Solution

RADAN software enables H. V. Wooding to nest

a wide variety of shapes and sizes of the same
thickness, ideal for producing the busbars.
RADAN is also used as part of the process of
quoting for jobs. Radbend, is used to calculate
bend angles, and the order of bends for forming
the busbars into a variety of configurations.

Benefits

As well as effectively managing the production

process itself, RADAN significantly simplifies
and shortens the quotation process for EV
parts, as well as removing manual work prior to
manufacturing to get the best material usage.

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Customer story: PCI-SCEMM

Powertrain parts
supplier moves into
smart manufacturing era

Challenge

PCI-SCEMM creates machining solutions

for the mass production of conventional
powertrain parts, such as cylinder heads
and gearboxes, along with battery trays
and housings for eMobility powertrains.Its
challenge was to achieve productivity gains
in production.

Solution

The NCSIMUL CNC simulationsoftware from

Hexagon, which reads the post-processed
G-code to identify machining tool paths.

Benefits

NCSIMUL helped PCI-SCEMM guarantee

cycle times, lead times, quality and
overall cost for all operations, achieving
productivity gains of between 20% and 30%
compared to using a conventional CAD CAM
system alone.
 Customer story: Faurecia

Sustainable materials
for fuel cells

Challenge

Faurecia is an automotive supplier

specialising in interior modules and
emission-control technology.

Its ‘sustainable mobility’ project,

focusing on fuel cell technology and
the design of fuel tanks and battery
systems, requires a high-end portable
measuring system for inspection and
assembly verification.

Solution

Hexagon’s portable measuring arm with

laser scanner or vision systems is used for
measurement of existing geometry to ensure
fitting of battery and fuel systems in modified
vehicles.

Digimat material simulation software is also used

for modelling and inspection of the fuel cells
manufactured in-house.

Benefits

Portable, fast and fully documented

3D inspection (both contact and
non-contact) facilitates the in-house
production of fibre fuel tanks and their
fitting to existing vehicle geometry.

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Customer story: Uniti

Electric car
component inspection

Challenge

The Uniti One electric car has been reated

from the ground up to be the ideal electric
vehicle for the daily urban commute.

Components made from carbon-fibre need

to be accurately trimmed and prepared for
proper assembly.

Solution

Uniti’s development team uses an Absolute

Arm to measure and trim carbon-fibre parts
and verify assembly positions, as well as
using this portable measurement system
for other inspection work in production.

Benefits

The fast, portable inspection system

reduces downtime and ensures not only
accurate measurements but also properly
documented inspection results – useful
for modifications, corrections and further
development.
 Customer story: Audi

Structure and acoustic

trim mass optimisation

Challenge

Find the optimised trim package solution to

meet interior noise levels while respecting
restrictive weight and new space constraints
due to batteries.

Solution

MSC Nastran PEM topography optimisation of the

structure considering trim component effects.
Material properties of trim components were
optimised with Actran.

Benefits

The structure was optimised accurately

considering the trim component effects
thanks to MSC Nastran PEM.

Sound pressure level was reduced inside the

cabin with a trim component mass reduction
compared to the initial design.

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Customer story: GKN

Design and analysis

of eDrivetrain

Challenge

Conventional methods to increase transmission

efficiency can have adverse effects on durability and
quiet running.

GKN’s challenge was to develop more powerful and

efficient transmissions for greener electric vehicles, in
order to capitalise on new market opportunities with-
out trade-offs in durability, noise and vibration.

Solution

Taking a system-level approach to EV

drivetrain gearbox design allows for system
optimisation from concept to production
design. With Hexagon’s Romax solutions,
a strategy was identified of gear macro
geometry optimisation for efficiency, NVH
and durability.

Benefits

GKN was able to developed one of the best-in-class

‘whole system’ approaches for faster and more
effective right-first-time design of low-noise gearboxes
for hybrids and EVs. Optimised gears showed a 1.1-2.2%
improvement in overall drivetrain system efficiency
with no negative impact on NVH
or durability.

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Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous
solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity,
and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety,
and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems

to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable,
sustainable future.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division provides solutions that utilise

data from design and engineering, production and metrology to make
manufacturing smarter. For more information, visit hexagonmi.com.

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