InnovMetric announced a new PolyWorks® Digital Thread partnership program. In collaboration with software companies that develop and commercialize solutions for engineering, manufacturing, and quality, this new program aims to accelerate the digitalization of manufacturing processes. It achieves this by creating an interconnected network that drives dimensional inspection data interoperability from a single source of truth with effortless digital data flows between software applications. 

Manufacturing organizations must ensure that data flows from one software to another as they rely on best-in-class solutions from multiple vendors for the digitalization of their manufacturing processes. While functional, the typical file-based data exchanges used within the dimensional management process between engineering, manufacturing, and quality present major data-flow issues, including having multiple copies of the same dimensional inspection information in multiple locations. The PolyWorks digital thread enables partners to digitally interconnect their software solutions to the PolyWorks universal metrology software platform and centralized data management server. It also allows automating the data flows that deliver dimensional inspection inputs to quality and leverage digital twin instances as well as 3D measurement data outputs enterprisewide. 

“Our existing PolyWorks connectors cover a wide array of applications and processes and we plan to add more connectors in the future. However, the use of 3D measurement data is expanding, and the number of applications that could benefit from it is rising as well. So, we think that the task is too big to solely rest on our shoulders. This is why we have decided to partner with software companies to allow them to develop and commercialize digital connectors that exchange 3D measurement information between PolyWorks and their own solutions,” says Marc Soucy, President of InnovMetric. He concludes, “It was natural for us to take this decision, as we had already determined that PolyWorks would be an open solution.” 

InnovMetric’s first digital thread business partners: High QA, AutoForm, and Duwe-3d.

For more information, visit https://www.innovmetric.com/, https://www.highqa.com/, https://www.autoform.com/en/, or https://www.duwe-3d.de/en/.