InnovMetric Releases PolyWorks® 2024 
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InnovMetric Releases PolyWorks® 2024 

Enables manufacturers to scale up the use of 3D measurement data enterprisewide by lowering operating costs 

April 30, 2024 -- InnovMetric, the independent software development company that empowers manufacturers of every size to digitally transform their 3D measurement processes, announces the launch of PolyWorks 2024. This enterprise solution sets up a digital thread that lowers the cost of scaling up the use of 3D measurement data by deploying a universal 3D metrology platform and delivering 3D measurement data to engineering and manufacturing teams in real-time. The PolyWorks digital ecosystem accelerates the design, development, and validation of products and manufacturing processes. It also controls the quality of individual pieces and assembled products, and helps resolve manufacturing issues as soon as they occur.  

This new PolyWorks release significantly lowers the costs related to learning and operating 3D metrology software, managing large point cloud data files, and leveraging 3D measurement data within third-party reporting and analysis solutions: 

“When facing a customer requirement, we are sometimes confronted with the dilemma of either developing our own solution or leveraging an existing third-party solution. It is always tempting to code a new solution to own the intellectual property over it. For end-users, however, a new solution for which customers are unprepared could increase their operating and maintenance costs,” said Marc Soucy, President of InnovMetric. He added, “As lowering our customers’ operating costs is a key element of our strategy, we generally prefer to interconnect our digital ecosystem to existing tools. This approach simplifies the adoption of our solutions while maximizing the tools with which customers are familiar. We are proud to offer an open digital ecosystem that brings the rich 3D measurement data to the heart of manufacturing processes in an efficient and cost-effective manner.” 

Universal platform enhancements 

The PolyWorks|Inspector™ solution helps reduce time-to-market by measuring, controlling, and analyzing 3D dimensions at every stage of the manufacturing process. With version 2024, InnovMetric delivers major gains in efficiency through its re-engineered user interfaces. Users can now: 

PolyWorks|Inspector 2024 also offers new high-value tools and workflows: 

Characteristic augmenters in 3D measurement plans 

The PolyWorks|PMI+Loop™ Model-Based Definition solution allows manufacturing organizations to manage all the dimensional controls defined by the design and manufacturing teams within their native CAD platform. Version 2024 lets users add specialized supplemental information to characteristics, such as criticality classifications, quality plan requirements, and revision numbers. Once defined within their CAD platform, characteristic augmenters may then be consumed by downstream applications, such as PolyWorks|Inspector. 

Full benefits of cloud storage and improved security policies  

The PolyWorks|DataLoop™ data management solution stores 3D measurement data on central servers and digitally interconnects all the people who capture or need access to 3D measurement information. Version 2024 now leverages the full benefits of cloud storage. Manufacturing organizations can: 

Security policies allow manufacturing organizations to control who has access to data and what can be done with it. Version 2024 allows PolyWorks|DataLoop users to: 

Expanding Web-based views of the 3D measurement database 

The PolyWorks|DataLoop Web interface allows users to review 3D measurement results within a standard Web browser through an extensive set of standard and special-purpose widgets. With version 2024, users can now: 

Digital interconnections to industry-standard reporting and analysis solutions 

PolyWorks|ReportLoop™ is an interoperability solution that integrates inspection data into Microsoft Excel for reporting and advanced analysis. Version 2024 now allows manufacturing organizations to interconnect their PolyWorks|DataLoop server to Excel. Users have access to a search engine to quickly find sources of data plus user-friendly tools to inject smart 3D inspection data into their spreadsheets. Excel spreadsheet cells remain dynamically linked to the data they contain through formulas. 

Version 2024 also marks the debut of a new PolyWorks|ReportLoop for Power BI solution. PolyWorks’ Power BI connector allows retrieving data from a PolyWorks|DataLoop server and leveraging the query editor to process the imported data and display it using Power BI’s powerful visualization tools.

About InnovMetric 

InnovMetric is an independent software development company that empowers manufacturers of every size to digitally transform their 3D measurement processes. Now celebrating its 30th year in business, InnovMetric has revolutionized 3D metrology with the introduction of point-cloud-based dimensional inspection in 2000 and the concept of a universal 3D metrology software platform in 2006. Today, with over 20,400 customers in 100 countries, and the world’s largest industrial manufacturers having adopted its PolyWorks® solutions as their standard 3D metrology software platform, InnovMetric is focusing on creating next-generation digital data and process management technologies. Headquartered in Quebec City, Canada, InnovMetric is a multinational organization with 550 employees dedicated to bringing 3D measurement data at the heart of enterprise manufacturing processes.

For more information, visit innovmetric.com.