Hexagon’s Latest Version of HxGN EAM to Provide Comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management
Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division announced the release of HxGN EAM v12, the latest version of the SaaS-based Enterprise Asset Management product. This is EAM’s second major release
since it was acquired by Hexagon in October 2021.
HxGN EAM v12 offers expanded functionality in all areas of the product. It offers further expansion of the Asset Performance Management (APM) module with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) features, enables calculation and visualization of Asset Investment Planning (AIP) with EcoSys and adds increased capability to HxGN EAM Digital Work Mobile.
The AIP improvements are also at the core of the value-add of v12. A graphical interface is now available and enables powerful visualization of where money is currently being spent and where investments should be focused in the future. The new Constraint Optimizer engine also calculates the required funding needed to reach the desired conditions for selected assets.
Users can view investment planning results within EcoSys for comparison of multiple investment scenarios. These AIP improvements ensure critical assets have adequate funding to meet Level of Service and State of Good Repair requirements and gain long-term views of capital investment plans.
The latest version also adds several components to the Digital Work mobile platform, allowing utilization of custom tabs to access external links configured within different records. Capture Calibration readings with increased control over the precision of the measurement, and you can now record and perform RCA cases directly from mobile devices.
Hexagon Introduces Elements to Help Engineers Design Increasingly Complex Products with System-Level Modelling
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has introduced Elements, new simulation software that helps engineering teams understand the behavior of systems that are becoming increasingly complex in modern products. Using the software, teams can evaluate the performance and feasibility of new design concepts quickly to inform more efficient product development and reduce risk and cost.
Systems engineers can easily learn to use the Elements software, using its drag-and-drop environment to model any physics type or logic and analyze systems by intuitively connecting blocks – regardless of whether they represent electrical, hydraulic, mechanical components – to solve system-level engineering problems. It is based on the Modelica language, which is an open and widely used standard for building fast, flexible, and customizable models.
Systems modelling is indispensable in the early design phases because little information is required – often a CAD model, equation, or lookup table is sufficient and a 3D mesh is not required. Elements further speeds up engineering development because it also ensures that system-level models compute quickly and efficiently by optimizing equations and code for fast calculation, but with no loss of fidelity.
As the design develops, and components and subsystems are detailed in specialist simulation software, the components can be routinely integrated into a larger system through full compliance with the FMI standard and Hexagon’s proprietary SmartFMU technology. SmartFMU unlocks the Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) for supported Hexagon products so that changes can be made directly in the Elements system-level model without having to go back to the specialist Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software and its expert user. This helps to avoid resource bottlenecks, time-consuming switching between applications, and versioning problems.
六邊形的路線圖將看到其一流的CAE technologies readied for easy and productive use with Elements. At launch, the software provides SmartFMU connectivity with Adams multibody dynamics software and Easy5. Future plans are likely to include workflows with Cradle CFD thermal-fluid dynamics and Actran acoustic simulation products, among others.
Elements was developed in close cooperation with Maplesoft, building upon its powerful math engine to optimize system equations and deliver fast efficient simulation to Hexagon’s customers.