Solutions
VARS (Patent Pending)
Vehicle Armour Solution (VARS, patent pending) is a proprietary digital solution that enables rapid design and cost optimization of lightweight add-on vehicle armour systems, helping OEMs and Tier 1s identify the most effective protection solutions with speed and precision. Built on specialized algorithms leveraging deep domain expertise and extensive engineering experience, this solution delivers design options in minutes as compared to weeks. The solution is developed in partnership with South Africa headquartered AIH Group, helping BEN with system integration in Europe and Africa markets.
- Optimized Armour Design: Determines the optimal weight, thickness, and configuration of ceramic, composite, and steel plates for specified projectile types, velocities, and threat levels.
- Integrated Cost & Performance Optimization: Combines design outputs with cost estimation and manufacturing process details to identify the most viable, high-value solutions.
- Faster, Lower-Risk Development: Reduces development time, cost, and risk by minimizing physical prototyping and testing through accurate, rapid predictions.
- Intuitive & Secure Software: Features a user-friendly GUI, fast computation, controlled access, encrypted data storage, and robust data privacy, integrity, and authenticity.
- Design-to-Manufacturing Support: Offers value-added services to help clients scale the design and manufacturing of add-on vehicle armour solutions.
MetalMorphics™
A proprietary design and decision-support software solution developed in conjunction with a leading software company, that enables rapid evaluation and optimization of metal-to-composite transitions, helping manufacturers make informed decisions on lightweighting, costing, and manufacturability.
- Lightweighting Feasibility Assessment: Evaluates metal-to-composite substitution opportunities, quantifying weight reduction while maintaining required strength and stiffness.
- Integrated Cost & Value Analysis: Compares performance gains against costs across local production, low-cost countries, outsourcing, logistics, tariffs, and landed-cost scenarios.
- Design & Manufacturing Optimization: Supports composite design refinement and assesses BOM and infrastructure requirements for targeted production volumes and manufacturability.
- Make-vs-Buy & Supply Chain Decisions: Helps OEMs and Tier 1s evaluate in-house versus outsourced production and determine whether composite adoption delivers a compelling value-to-cost ratio.
- Integrated, Data-Driven Decision-Making: Embedded within Hexagon’s engineering ecosystem (e.g., APEX), consolidating engineering, cost, and manufacturing analysis to accelerate decisions and reduce transition risks.
Applied CPG Innovation
A proprietary innovation and execution platform focused on next-generation home and personal care solutions, leveraging advanced delivery systems, formulation expertise, and accelerated product development capabilities.
- Scalable Innovation & R&D Support: Strengthens innovation pipelines through formulation optimization, testing, and industrialization support, enabling rapid concept validation without significant in-house R&D infrastructure investment.
- Advanced Delivery Systems: Leverages encapsulation, controlled-release, and deposit-enhancing technologies to improve product efficacy, longevity, and consumer experience.
- Differentiated Product Innovation: Develops innovative solutions across a wide range of personal care and home care products.
- End-to-End Product Development: Supports the journey from concept ideation and laboratory validation to scale-up and commercialization, accelerating innovation cycles through specialized expertise and flexible execution models.
- High-Performance Formulations: Combines specialty actives, functional ingredients, and biodegradable chemistries to enhance product performance and meet evolving consumer needs.
Applied Food Innovation
A science-led innovation and execution platform focused on developing scalable, commercially viable food products through advanced formulations, process excellence, and market-aligned product development.
- Differentiated Food Product Innovation: Develops science-backed food products aligned with evolving consumer demand for clean-label, functional and nutritious offerings across a wide range of food and nutrition categories.
- Advanced Formulation & Nutritional Science: Combines natural ingredients, specialty ingredient systems, performance-enhancing actives and biotechnology expertise to improve nutritional efficacy and product differentiation.
- End-to-End Product Development: Supports the full innovation lifecycle, from concept creation and lab validation to industrial scale-up and commercial launch, accelerating speed-to-market.
- Process Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence: Bridges kitchen-scale innovation and industrial production through process optimization, automation, technical troubleshooting and improvements in productivity and product consistency.
- Quality, Compliance & Scalable Growth: Supports food safety, quality and shelf-life requirements, including FSSAI, HACCP, ISO and Kosher standards, integrating formulation science, manufacturing expertise and market insight to commercialize innovations at scale.