Hexagon AB, Surrey, U.K., a provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, acquired assets from Kronion GmbH, Landau, Germany, and transferred them to Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, North Kingstown, R.I. Founded in 2009, Kronion developed the eMMA software suite for dimensional data management, quality planning and analytics for the automotive, shipbuilding and other discrete manufacturing industries. The company employs 15 people in Landau; they will continue to work there as part of the team at Q-DAS Inc., Weinheim, Germany, the Hexagon-owned statistical process control specialist. The functionality of eMMA will enhance the recently launched HxGN Smart Quality online quality data and measurement resource management software platform.
The eMMA software is an enterprise IT solution that enables OEMs and their suppliers to plan, collect and analyze dimensional information from various stages of the product life cycle. Offering native 3D functionality and integration to product data management and product life cycle management software, as well as other customer systems, eMMA is used by global automotive manufacturers across prototype departments, body shops, interior, composite, stamping and metrology rooms. The software collects shop floor data from dozens of metrology systems and aligns it with managed quality control routines for automated and on-the-fly analytics.
"The eMMA software and the expertise of the team behind it are highly complementary additions to Q-DAS and our HxGN Smart Quality development group," said Norbert Hanke, president of Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. "They will provide our customers with greater value out of their collected dimensional data and ease data management efforts. We're committed to supporting our customers' entire metrology fleet, including probing, scanning and automated systems, with a hardware-independent software solution."
This acquisition has no significant impact on Hexagon's earnings.
Related Glossary Terms
- metrology
metrology
Science of measurement; the principles on which precision machining, quality control and inspection are based. See precision machining, measurement.
- process control
process control
Method of monitoring a process. Relates to electronic hardware and instrumentation used in automated process control. See in-process gaging, inspection; SPC, statistical process control.
- quality assurance ( quality control)
quality assurance ( quality control)
Terms denoting a formal program for monitoring product quality. The denotations are the same, but QC typically connotes a more traditional postmachining inspection system, while QA implies a more comprehensive approach, with emphasis on “total quality,” broad quality principles, statistical process control and other statistical methods.
- statistical process control ( SPC)
statistical process control ( SPC)
Statistical techniques to measure and analyze the extent to which a process deviates from a set standard.
