Hexagon launches Nexus for Developers to enable manufacturers to create digital reality solutions

Hexagon has announced Nexus for Developers, a development environment to build native SaaS applications and connected solutions using the Nexus digital reality platform.

The Nexus open digital reality platform allows manufacturers to connect Hexagon and third-party engineering, manufacturing and quality assurance products and solutions. It enables real-time collaboration and feedback between engineering and manufacturing in a way that has never before been achieved in the industry. Nexus for Developers will provide the tools to help anyone connect equipment, data and processes to build digital realities where insights are available to people in real time, in context and in one place so they can make better-informed decisions.

Nexus for Developers provides a platform framework via Software Development Kits (SDKs) to easily connect products and solutions to the Hexagon portfolio. An application only needs to be connected once – afterwards it can talk to any other application plugged in to Nexus and share or receive relevant manufacturing data using standard data models. This simplicity helps users to establish and maintain connectivity easily and to quickly improve common workflows and remove manual import and export between SaaS or desktop applications, enabling innovative new digital reality solutions that connect and synchronise disparate tools for real-time collaboration.

The new toolset is intended to supercharge development – democratising access to powerful platform applications with libraries to help connect these applications to back-end services and to quickly build user interfaces, making it easy for an engineering team to solve problems and allowing professional developers to rapidly deploy new, unique services via Nexus. This will include a library which offers reusable user interface (UI) components that accelerate UI development, enabling developers to efficiently build high-quality, feature-rich user experiences, and SDKs that allow developers to enrich their own cloud or desktop applications with the SaaS experiences enabled by Nexus.

Nexus for Developers helps technology and software providers
With Nexus for Developers, Hexagon aims to make it easy for technology vendors to connect their applications to the Nexus platform, creating an ecosystem where third-party tools combine with Hexagon products to deliver powerful manufacturing solutions for customers. Altium is the first company to connect its cloud platform to Nexus, integrating thermal simulation capabilities from Hexagon’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software with printed circuit board (PCB) design tools via its Altium 365 platform. Electronic engineers designing the board benefit from Altium's best-in-class PCB design capabilities using Altium 365. This will provide immediate efficiency savings for Altium customers.

Nexus for Developers helps engineering teams
Engineers in small and large companies globally must solve problems every day: systems that don’t talk, enterprise platforms that only IT can change, a mix of office tools like Excel; scripts, engineering or operational technology running from locally stored files that can be distributed ad hoc throughout teams. Nexus for Developers provides easy-to-implement solutions to these problems too.

Hexagon’s Applied Solutions engineering team specialises in design and optimisation of electro-mechanical systems, a job which requires specific calculations and reports repeatedly. These calculations reflect the expertise and intellectual property of the team and can be spread across a range of tools and applications and written with a variety of programming languages. Nexus for Developers helps drive productivity for the Applied Solutions team by allowing them to convert these many different calculations into a unified cloud-native application with modern UI that is accessible by all teams, wherever they are in the world.

Early access to Nexus for Developers is now available, with a full launch scheduled for late 2023. Customers interested in onboarding to Nexus for Developers are encouraged to register for the opportunity to use the platform and tools available and to work with Hexagon to build on the capabilities of the platform, technology partners and connected systems and data.

To register, click here: https://nexus.hexagon.com.

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