Expanding on Hexagon’s heritage of metrology excellence, the company said MAESTRO is built upon four principles: to be fast, easy to use, connected and scalable.
Its digital-first architecture offers the industry rapid measurement routines, an intuitive user experience and seamless data integration. With modular software and hardware, it is designed to scale with evolving production needs, making it ideal for aerospace, automotive, and high-precision manufacturing environments where there is a high demand for accuracy to deliver safety, compliance, and performance.
Further, MAESTRO features a newly-developed digital architecture, incorporating digital sensors, a single cable system, and a completely new controller with brand new firmware. Together, these new capabilities are set to increase throughput, streamline the complete measurement operation, and ensure future-ready connectivity for modern production environments.
According to Hexagon, its latest technology offers customers unmated precision at speed; simpler use and programming thanks to an intuitive interface; end-to-end connectivity, as the CMM integrates into Hexagon’s Nexus ecosystem, sharing real-time data across design, production, and quality teams; and scalability, with modular design and a robust roadmap for future upgrades.
“Manufacturers told us they needed a next-generation system that tackles rising quality demands and skills shortages,” commented 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 have reported 'dramatic productivity gains' and reduced inspection lead times, the company said, helping to avoid production bottlenecks and to keep pace with fast-changing customer requirements. Customers have tested various sensors, ranging from high-speed laser scanning to tactile probes, with consistently strong results in both R&D and production applications.
Hexagon’s software tools and services such as PC-DMIS and the Metrology Mentor, Metrology Asset Manager, and Metrology Reporting Nexus Apps were developed in tandem with MAESTRO to create an integrated system that significantly boosts productivity from part loading to analysis, compared to isolated component solutions.
The company's end goal is to deliver ease of use and fast workflows, from programming, execution and usage, to reporting and collaboration with colleagues in design and manufacturing.
MAESTRO will be offered initially in multiple sizes and configurations, each engineered for automated multi-sensor workflows utilising 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 enhancements will follow, all based on a single, coherent platform.
MAESTRO will be available for order from June 30, 2025.
