STUTTGART, Germany, May 8, 2025 – Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has introduced MAESTRO, a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) developed to address manufacturing challenges, including global skills shortages and increasing quality requirements. The system focuses on improving measurement speed, ease of use, and digital connectivity in metrology environments.
Building on Hexagon’s metrology experience, MAESTRO follows four principles: speed, ease of use, connectivity, and scalability. Its digital-first design provides standard measurement routines, an intuitive user experience and data integration. With modular software and hardware, it can adapt to changing production needs. This makes it suitable for aerospace, automotive, and high-precision manufacturing industries where accuracy supports safety, compliance, and performance.
Building on Hexagon’s global metrology expertise, MAESTRO features a digital architecture, incorporating digital sensors, a single cable system, and a controller with new firmware. Together, these new capabilities increase throughput, streamline the complete measurement operation, and ensure future-ready connectivity for modern production environments.
Customers will benefit from:
- Unmatched precision at speed: MAESTRO features a redesigned mechanical structure, a single-cable digital platform, and advanced sensors that support high-speed measurements with sub-micron precision. It delivers consistent, certified results suited for complex geometries and quality control requirements.
- Breakthrough speed: MAESTRO enables increased measurement throughput with fast axis motion and stable precision. Its synchronized movements, automated calibration, and cloud-based software contribute to an efficient setup, programming, execution, and reporting.
- Simpler use and programming: MAESTRO simplifies CMM programming and supports more efficient inspection workflows. Its user interface, along with cloud-native metrology applications built on Hexagon’s Nexus platform, allows users to generate repeatable, standards-compliant measurements without coding.
- End-to-end connectivity: MAESTRO is designed as an IIoT-compatible measuring device that integrates with Hexagon’s Nexus ecosystem. It enables real-time data sharing across design, production, and quality teams, supporting data-informed decisions and monitoring equipment performance. The system can be integrated near-line or in-line with automation platforms.
- Scalable platform: MAESTRO features a modular design and a defined upgrade path, allowing manufacturers to update software, sensors, and system capabilities as needed. This supports long-term adaptability to changing production requirements.
“Manufacturers told us they needed a next-generation system that tackles rising quality demands and skills shortages,” said Jörg Deller, general manager stationary metrology devices at Hexagon. “By rethinking our hardware and software from the ground up, rather than iterating on existing systems, we’ve had the freedom to create a high-accuracy inspection solution that is so intuitive that anyone from expert to new hires become significantly more productive. Meeting the needs of industry head-on, MAESTRO’s digital backbone also makes it straightforward to integrate into modern connected factories, so stakeholders can improve quality quickly and definitively.”
Pilot users report productivity gains and shorten inspection time, which prevents delays in production and helps meet customer demands. Customers have tested sensors from laser scanners to tactile probes with consistent results in both R&D and production.
Hexagon’s software tools and services such as PC-DMIS and the Metrology Mentor, Metrology Asset Manager, and Metrology Reporting Nexus Apps were developed with MAESTRO to create an integrated system that boosts productivity from part loading to analysis. The end goal is to simplify use and speed up workflows from programming, execution, usage to reporting and collaboration in design and manufacturing.
MAESTRO will be offered initially in multiple sizes and configurations, each engineered for automated multi-sensor workflows utilizing tactile probes and laser scanning probes from a new “digital rack” that tracks occupancy status, sensor supply health and status that can be accessed on-device and throughout the desktop and cloud-native apps. Additional future-ready models and upgrades will expand capabilities on a unified platform.
MAESTRO will be available for order from June 30, 2025.
Source: Hexagon
About Hexagon
Hexagon AB, established in 1975, specializes in digital reality solutions integrating sensors, software, and autonomous technologies. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Hexagon operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 24,800 people. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including construction, mining, agriculture, aerospace, automotive, defense, and manufacturing. Its offerings encompass reality capture measurement, intelligent positioning, situational intelligence, and industrial design solutions. In 2023, Hexagon reported annual revenues of approximately €5.44 billion. Since 2000, Hexagon has completed over 170 strategic acquisitions, enhancing its position in digital transformation and enabling clients to utilize data for improved efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across various applications.