InnovMetric extends the PolyWorks® digital thread through business partnerships
InnovMetric announces 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 is proud to onboard and collaborate with its first digital thread business partners:
High QA, AutoForm, and Duwe-3d.
High QA
High QA is a leading provider of integrated manufacturing quality management software
solutions for any size company in all major manufacturing industries. Its software optimizes and
automates the entire quality assurance process through automated data extraction and
contextualization, creating a clear, traceable, and consistent bill of characteristics (BoC).
Its first PolyWorks digital thread connector, now available, is built into their HQA Connect
software, which allows quality assurance and manufacturing specialists to automatically
balloon 2D drawings using optical character recognition (OCR). This connector enables
metrologists to automatically synchronize dimensional requirements from these ballooned
drawings to PolyWorks|Inspector™. With such seamless digital integration, inspection projects
can be created in record time, eliminating drawing interpretation errors while maintaining
complete data integrity.
High QA plans to further extend the interconnection between HQA Connect and PolyWorks by
streaming inspection results from the PolyWorks|DataLoop™ centralized 3D measurement
server to automatically populate quality assurance reports, such as FAIs and PPAPs, within their
360 Core reporting and analysis software solution.
“Together with InnovMetric, we’re weaving a digital thread that connects your quality and
manufacturing teams, empowering them to work smarter, faster, and with greater accuracy,”
says Sam Golan, Founder and CEO of High QA.
