Hexagon AB provides integrated design, measurement, and visualization technologies worldwide. Its technologies enable its customers to create, manage, and share information for enhancing productivity and quality, and to make operational decisions by exploiting multidimensional data. The company operates in two segments, Hexagon Measurement Technologies and Other Operations. It offers geosystems, including airborne sensors, construction lasers, field and mobile solutions, global navigation satellite systems and global positioning systems, laser scanners, laser distance meters, levels, locators, machine control, mining systems, monitoring systems, laser stations, theodolites, and related software to capture, reference, analyze, process, and store geographical information used by the customers in the surveying, public sector, construction, civil engineering, mining, energy, agriculture, and defense industries. The company also provides metrology systems comprising coordinate measuring systems, gauges and hand tools, laser tracker systems, machine tool probing solutions, multisensor and optical systems, portable measuring arms, probing systems and styli, and white light scanner systems for the automotive, aerospace, and energy industries. In addition, it offers enterprise engineering, data management, geospatially powered software, surveying and construction, and dimensional metrology software packages used in power and process industries. Further, the company provides bodywork parts for car manufacturers; and gearboxes, precision-grounded gearwheels, and other transmission-parts for vehicles and industries. The company was formerly known as Eken Industri & Handel AB and changed its name to Hexagon AB in 1993. Hexagon AB was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.