Next-Generation All Digital MAESTRO CMM Launched
Transforming quality inspection with high-speed, connected measurement workflows, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the launch of MAESTRO, an all-new, next-generation coordinate measuring machine (CMM) engineered from the ground up to meet the rising productivity demands of modern manufacturing. Designed to combat global skills shortages and increasing quality requirements, MAESTRO sets a new standard for speed, simplicity, and digital integration in metrology.
Expanding on Hexagon’s heritage of metrology excellence, 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.
MAESTRO Features Digital Architecture
Building on Hexagon’s extensive global metrology expertise, 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 increase throughput, streamline the complete measurement operation, and ensure future-ready connectivity for modern production environments.
MAESTRO users will benefit from:
Unmatched Precision Performance: MAESTRO’s redesigned mechanical structure, single-cable digital platform, and advanced sensors enable sub-micron tolerances that satisfy stringent industry standards. Customers gain the confidence of repeatable, certified measurements for critical quality control. This provides reliable results, even for complex shapes and the most demanding applications.
Breakthrough Speed: MAESTRO delivers industry leading throughput through high-speed motion and advanced sensor technology, while maintaining exceptional precision. Synchronised axis movements, rapid calibration, and cloud-based connected software significantly accelerate set-up, programming, execution, and reporting.
Simpler use and Programming: MAESTRO remasters quality inspection by simplifying CMM programming and streamlining workflows. An intuitive user interface, combined with next-generation SaaS metrology apps powered by Hexagon’s Nexus platform, enable both expert metrologists and less-specialised staff to generate repeatable, standard-compliant measurements effortlessly – without the need for coding.
End-to-End Connectivity: Designed as an IIoT native measuring device, MAESTRO integrates into Hexagon’s Nexus ecosystem, sharing real-time data across design, production, and quality teams, driving data-driven decision-making and improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Near-line or in-line integration with automation systems is seamless.
Scalable Platform: With a modular design and a robust roadmap for future upgrades, MAESTRO is built for scalability. Manufacturers can easily update software, sensors, and additional capabilities over time, ensuring that their investment remains future-proof and continuously supports evolving production needs.
FastCal Inferred Wrist Calibration
MAESTRO offers inferred wrist calibration routine FastCal which enables operators to use a maximum of wrist orientations with a minimum of calibration time (a minimum of 6 or 8 wrist orientations is needed) allowing probe calibration to be significantly reduced and allowing
operators to start measuring parts quicker.
Smart Eye Camera System
A installed Smart Machine Eye camera system provides visual access to the measurement volume supporting cause analysis and remote assistance. Immediate information on machine status enables operators to respond immediately to interruptions and maintain high levels of CMM productivity. LEDs use a color code to indicate the machine’s status, while the display provides detailed status information.
“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 is 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 dramatic productivity gains and reduced inspection lead times, helping to avoid production bottlenecks and to keep pace with fast-changing customer requirements. Several pilot customers have tested various sensors, ranging from high-speed laser scanning to tactile probes, with consistently strong results in both R&D and production environments
Hexagon’s software tools and services such as PC-DMIS, Metrology Mentor, Metrology Asset Manager, and Metrology Reporting 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 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 or tactile and laser scanning probes from a new d’igital 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.
For more information: www.hexagon.com
