b'We are currently focused onstartups can connect with world-SmartParts technologyIR, Burke said, but we are cer- class companies to solve some of allows a user to scan atainly capable of using the wholehumanitys biggest challenges.part like a bar code. spectrum. Because Hexagon has done an Software is the third part of theextensive amount of work creating solution, in which a cloud-baseddigital records and digital twin data, platform stores manufacturing data.Burke said it made sense for Smart-According to the company, a com- Parts to partner with Hexagon and plete digital and chronological re- aid in providing a missing link for cord for materials and parts is linkedthose digital records.to registered taggant IDs that areWe saw a ton of synergies with accessible through the SmartPartsHexagon as an organization, he Build Manager or with integrationssaid, and we were honored to have to an existing manufacturing execu- been chosen and awarded a winner tion system or enterprise resourcein the program.planning platform. SmartParts is soliciting additive When you strip everything awaymanufacturing original equipment and get down to the core valuemanufacturers, additive manufac-SmartParts proposition of SmartParts, its thatturing material companies, additive we link physical assets to digital re- service providers and producers of cords, Burke said. Adding uniqueadditively manufactured parts to identifiers into a material or a part isjoin a beta program, and Burke said only half the solution. The real valueit is generating a lot of enthusiasm.is unlocked by linking the unique IDFrankly, people didnt know it to the digital information. was possible to have this level of To help pursue integration strat- embedded traceability in materi-egies,thecompanyappliedtoals and parts, he said. Once peo-participate in the Sixth Sense pro- ple hear about it and get exposed He said scanners are the secondgram that Hexagon AB launchedto the technology were building, part of the technology. Once thein January. Hexagon states thatwe are getting high levels of in-taggants are in a material, a hand- Sixth Sense is an open innovationterest from people wanting to be held scanner uses infrared energyplatform where ambitious, scalinginvolved.CTEwaves to elicit a response from the particle in a predetermined infra-red radiation wavelength. The tech-nology isnt limited to infrared ra-diation waves, however, with such options as ultraviolet waves, X-rays and CT scans.contributorSmartPartswww.smartparts.comctemag.com/cteguide.com23Additive.indd 23 11/15/22 12:20 PM'