Hexagon breaks ground on facility

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, a North Kingstown, R.I., company that provides digital solutions, including metrology technologies and design software, to the manufacturing industry, is expanding. It broke ground in Novi, Mich., for an 88,000-square-foot building that will host a showroom and technical training center, as well as a laboratory and calibration hub.

The new facility also will provide a centralized workspace to consolidate the employees of its Manufacturing Intelligence businesses from the greater Detroit area.

In other Hexagon news, software maker Spring Technologies Inc. has changed its name. In the wake of its purchase last year by Hexagon, the company will now be called NCSIMUL Hexagon Production Software.