Product News: Hexagon’s Sixth Sense open-innovation start-up platform

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division, which provides engineering, production and quality technology and services to manufacturers from Audi to Boeing to Zimmer Biomet, has announced a new approach to supporting start-ups. The open-innovation platform Sixth Sense brings together start-ups and industry-leading companies to create transformative solutions that benefit everyone, Hexagon claims. It promotes sharing resources, data and ideas to fast-track progress and solve real-world problems that 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.