Hexagon lanserar upplösande start-up-plattform

För öppen innovation i den globala tillverkningsindustrin

Hexagon launches disruptive open innovation start-up platform to accelerate technology commercialisation in global manufacturing industry.

‘Sixth Sense’ scaling platform to take start-ups’ advanced tech and products from Minimum Viable Product to global commercialisation, leading the way for more open innovation in the Smart Manufacturing space and solving higher complexity problems for the industry.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which provides engineering, production and quality technology and services to the world’s biggest and most innovative manufacturing leaders around the world, from Audi to Boeing to Zimmer Biomet, has announced a revolutionary take on supporting start-ups.

Launched today, the open innovation platform Sixth Sense will bring together start-ups and industry-leading companies to create transformative solutions that benefit everyone. It promotes sharing resources, data and ideas to fast-track progress and solve real-world problems which address some of humanity’s greatest challenges, such as the journey to net zero. The challenge areas include Sustainability, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sensors and Robotics. Sixth Sense’s first themed challenge – Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sustainable Smart Manufacturing – encompasses all these areas and is also accepting dedicated applications, with start-ups encouraged to register their interest for future themed challenges and events.

Parth Joshi, Chief Product and Technology Officer of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, said: “We are searching for intelligent, efficient solutions that will not only enhance performance, but benefit people and the planet. Industry 4.0 is evolving and pushing to solve complex challenges, but the catch is that you cannot solve big problems without solving lots of little ones at each step with innovation.”

The 10 most innovative proposals will be chosen for an intensive innovate-on-the-job scaling programme, supported by Hexagon, key clients and world-leading mentors. Three final concepts will be offered opportunities to globalise and scale their business as commercial joint ventures.

Milan Kocić, Head of Sixth Sense for Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, said: “Sixth Sense will build a bridge between small businesses and larger manufacturers; helping overcome start-ups’ challenges with scaling, while simultaneously meeting the industry’s need for new ideas.”

The platform has already partnered with a number of promising young companies, and is founded on the principle that diversity is fundamental to innovation and establishing such a thriving open ecosystem.

The selection criteria for Sixth Sense include:

$1m or less in revenue
1-5 years in existence
Post seed, Series A, Series A+
Proven traction and product-market fit
Propensity to scale

Preferred qualities:

Validation of investment from third party
IP & licenses

To view the full Sixth Sense programme criteria, specific challenges and apply, visit sixthsense.hexagon.com.

Media contacts:
Giorgia Muirhead
April Six for Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division
hexagonmi@aprilsix.com

Robin Wolstenholme
Global Media Relations and Analyst Relations Manager
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division
Phone: +44(0)7407 642190
e-mail: robin.wolstenholme@hexagon.com

Global press office including April Six (agency): media.mi@hexagon.com

2/17/2022 - Industritorget

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Hexagon Metrology Nordic AB hjälper industriella tillverkare att utveckla dagens omvälvande teknik och framtidens livsförändrande produkter. Som en ledande metrologi- och tillvekningslösningsspecialist ger vår expertis inom Sensing, Thinking, Acting – insamling, analys och aktivt användning av mätdata – våra kunder förtroende att öka produktionshastigheten och accelerera produktiviteten samtidigt som de förbättrar produktkvaliteten.

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