Hexagon AB
Hexagon AB is a Stockholm-headquartered industrial software and metrology group founded in 1975. Through acquisitions including Leica Geosystems, Intergraph (2010), MSC Software (2017), and Edge CAM, ESPRIT, Radan, NCSimul under the Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence umbrella, Hexagon assembled one of the broadest design-to-measurement software portfolios in Europe. In September 2025 Hexagon announced the sale of MSC Software to Cadence Design Systems, refocusing on metrology, manufacturing intelligence, and CAM.
Why it matters
Hexagon is the reason a meaningful share of CAM in machine shops worldwide reports back to Stockholm. For PLM strategy that's a structural fact: the shop-floor measurement loop, the CAM toolpath, and the CMM inspection report are increasingly under one corporate roof, which means the data-handoff problem at the design-to-manufacturing boundary has fewer vendors and more leverage points than the traditional Big-3 PLM map suggests.
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Finocchiaro, Michael. “Hexagon AB.” DemystifyingPLM PLM Glossary, 2026, https://www.demystifyingplm.com/glossary/hexagon-ab