(Hexagon: Stockholm) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Business Area has unveiled new laser-guided solutions that make it possible—in some cases for the first time—to automate inaccessible and large-scale quality inspections in labor-intensive operations such as aircraft assembly, shipbuilding, and wind turbine manufacturing.

Globally, large-scale manufacturing such as aircraft production and shipbuilding is under sustained pressure to “ramp up.” But it’s operationally challenging to make high-precision, safety-critical machines on time because quality inspection requires workers to inspect critical features from cherry pickers during multiple shifts, interrupting production and assembly.

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