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FirstEnergyFirstEnergy Extends Hexagon PPM Across Virtual Testing
FirstEnergy, a utilities organization in the United States, uses Hexagon PPM from Hexagon to support virtual testing for analysts and design leads.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because simulation has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in virtual testing sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Hexagon PPM is the governed place analysts and design leads use for virtual testing |
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Inside FirstEnergy, virtual testing used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in utilities groups working out of the United States. Analysts and design leads needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
FirstEnergy uses Hexagon PPM from Hexagon as the working layer for simulation. Hexagon provides digital reality and industrial software for measurement, design, and operations in manufacturing and geospatial work. The practical change is simple: virtual testing has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What FirstEnergy gets from Hexagon is a durable place to run virtual testing and a way for analysts and design leads to see the same simulation at the same time.
