Stockholm technology firm Hexagon to ramp up its operations in India

Hexagon, a Stockholmbased firm that focuses on technologies in autonomous and digital reality, has decided to ramp up its operations in India.

Currently, the €5.3 billion revenue firm has its largest global software and research and development facility in Hyderabad and going forward, the company will be diversifying into hardware systems in India to cater to various industries including automotive, oil & gas, power, aerospace, infrastructure, utilities, agriculture and defense, Navaneet Mishra, Senior VP & Head of Hexagon’s R&D Centre in India told The Hindu.

“I am looking forward to diversifying our work to go beyond software development and solutioning to hardware system level programming in the near future,” he said.

Mr. Mishra said Hexagon’s R&D in India was the single largest such facility globally with more than 2,000 engineers, technologists and solution makers who are working on innovations in products and platforms. India was the hub to deliver R&D for all of Hexagon’s business units.

“Over the last 10 years, Indian operations have grown in scale with a diversified talent pool and therefore aligning with Hexagon’s global R&D vision.”

75% of cars, 90% of aircraft and 85% of smartphones globally used Hexagon technologies, Mr. Mishra said. The company has delivered safer, reliable autonomous driving research vehicles than any other company, and more than 50% of all geospatial imaging and processing globally today happens on Hexagon’s technologies, while more than a billion people are protected by Hexagon’s public safety solutions, he added.

Commenting on the importance of digital twin technology in the automotive space, Mr. Mishra said the future of automotive manufacturing would be defined by the depth and precision of Digital Twin technologies. These twins would not only have to get precise dimensions and accurate placement of all parts, but they would must simulate all physical laws and material composition details for various scenarios, Mr. Mishra said.

“Such production will be much more costefficient by saving on material wastage and physical iterations, and environment friendly,” he added.

Navaneet Mishra