What's New: HxGN SDx2 is Here!

August 28, 2024

For owner operators (OOs) and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services and firms, HxGN SDx2 is the industry’s strongest solution for optimizing the performance of engineering projects and asset operations. It delivers improved efficiency, productivity, quality and safety while enhancing fiscal and environmental sustainability. HxGN SDx2 sets a new standard with unprecedented data integration and contextualization, enriched visualization and the introduction of evergreen digital twins to elevate operational excellence.

Here’s a quick glance at why HxGN SDx2 is leading the charge in the market:

It’s Cloud-Native: HxGN SDx2 is a centralized repository of data and service and the heart of Hexagon’s Smart Digital Reality™ vision. It’s cloud-native environment supports unparalleled flexibility, scalability and efficiency across all Hexagon solutions, enabling organizations to stay ahead in an increasingly connected world.

It Bridges the Physical and Digital: By seamlessly connecting the physical and digital worlds, HxGN SDx2 transforms operations, empowering companies to leverage data in real-time to promote improved decision-making and operational outcomes.

It Improves Operational Efficiency: HxGN SDx2 delivers real-time insights and reliable data, helping organizations elevate quality, efficiency, safety and productivity. This produces tangible improvements in performance and a reduction in costly errors and delays.

It Makes Accurate Digital Twin Creation Possible: Establishing a CFIHOS-compliant data model, HxGN SDx2 ensures accurate digital twin creation and maintenance — crucial for maintaining up-to-date and trustworthy representations of assets.

It’s Customizable: Engineered to meet the ever-evolving challenges of OOs and EPCs, HxGN SDx2 delivers customizable features that adapt to specific project needs. This means it will remain relevant and effective during all the diverse scenarios your teams will encounter.

Key Features for OOs:

Controlled Collaboration: Enhances project and operational collaboration with real-time connectivity and efficient communication, keeping all stakeholders aligned and informed.

Trustworthy Information Access: With instant access to reliable, contextually relevant information via a ‘single pane of glass’ (i.e., single view), organizations can confidently make quicker, better-informed decisions.

Risk Management Excellence: HxGN SDx2 minimizes risk and maximizes margins with comprehensive risk management tools and the data-driven insights essential for maintaining safety and profitability in high-stakes environments.

Enhanced Design Quality: Advanced tools for precision and streamlined processes elevate design quality, reducing the probability of costly rework and ensuring projects meet the highest standards.

Digital Twin Maintenance: Consistent and accurate mapping of data throughout all intake and handover processes, assuring your digital twin remains an accurate reflection of the physical asset throughout its lifecycle.

Key Features for EPCs:

Enhanced Design Quality: Facilitates faster, more efficient design reviews with advanced visualization tools and 2D/3D comparisons, helping teams catch potential issues early and stay on schedule.

Improved Productivity and Efficiency: By optimizing resource utilization and reducing project timelines, HxGN SDx2 lowers the total cost of ownership, making projects more profitable.

Better Collaboration and Communication: Robust document review and management features foster teamwork and clear communication so that everyone is always on the same page and projects move forward smoothly.

Streamlined Decision-Making: Provides real-time insights and secure data sharing, enabling teams to make better-informed decisions to keep projects on track and within budget.

Digital Twin Creation: Promotes smooth transitions between project phases with a CFIHOS-compliant data model, facilitating continuity and reducing the risk of data loss or miscommunication.

Advancing Beyond: HxGN SDx2's Solution Areas

Since its launch in 2018, HxGN SDx has proven itself as an industry leader. Now, 2024 brings a technological leap with HxGN SDx2, introducing enhanced capabilities across six primary solution areas that build on and complement its predecessors' innovations while addressing key industry challenges:

1. Asset Lifecycle Data and Information Management: Embrace a data-centric approach by consolidating and contextualizing both Hexagon and third-party data. This ensures that information remains current, accurate, and accessible throughout the asset’s lifecycle, supporting informed decision-making.
2. Asset Modeling and Visualization: Develop and sustain an evergreen digital twin, enabling seamless transitions and informed decisions through the integration of 2D designs, 3D models, geospatial data, point clouds, and panoramic views.
3. Engineering Change Management: Simplify the process of updating and managing design changes, reducing rework and enhancing quality. Efficiently manage change requests, identify conflicts, and conduct impact analysis to keep projects on track.
4. Work Packaging: Boost asset performance with digital binders that facilitate decision-making across design, construction, operation, and maintenance phases. Manage work packages, workflows, and document annotations to streamline project execution.
5. Document Management and Document Control: Implement organized and secure document workflows for engineering projects and operations. This includes managing document status, routing, and integrated tasks such as transmittals, submittals, queries, and change requests.
6. Design Review and Issue Management: Revolutionize engineering projects through a collaborative design review process. Centralized issue management reduces review cycles, enhances efficiency, and improves consistency across the project lifecycle.