3D Laser Scanning for Plant and Industrial Sites

Revamping an aging plant or upgrading a refinery comes down to three things you cannot compromise on: safety, speed and access. Reality capture addresses all three at once.

Outage windows are short

Capture is measured in minutes per setup, not hours. You document the whole area while access exists and answer questions afterward from the data.

Access is the hazard

Every measurement taken from a scanner is a measurement nobody took from a ladder, a rope or a confined space entry.

Drawings do not match

Plants change continuously and the record rarely keeps up. A scan is the only version that is true on the day it was taken.

Fabrication has no tolerance for surprises

Spools and structural steel built to a scan fit. Built to an old isometric, they come back.

RTC500

The practical all-rounder for plant work. Enough range for tank farms and pipe racks, fast enough to cover a unit in a shift, and survey-grade registration in the field.

RTC700

The long-range option at up to 270m, with survey functions built in. The right call for large sites, stacks and anything where setups are expensive to reach.

RTC300

The shorter-range member of the family, for units and interiors where 85m of reach is plenty and portability matters more.

BLK360 G2

Compact and quick, for control rooms, switch rooms, plant interiors and anywhere tight. Under three minutes for a full dome scan with imagery.

BLK2GO

Handheld and mobile. You walk a route and it captures as you go, which is unbeatable for long corridors, stairwells and pipe racks where tripod setups would multiply.

Which one for your facility?

Tell us the site, the outage window and what the data has to feed. We will recommend the instrument, and say when renting beats buying.

What you can do with the data

A registered point cloud of a running plant is the reference every other discipline works from. Clash detection before a tie-in. Spool fabrication that fits first time. Accurate volumes and clearances. A digital twin that new engineers can walk before they ever set foot on site.

We agree the deliverable and the level of detail before anyone scans, because modeling everything to a high level of detail when the project needs structure, major pipe and equipment is where plant scan budgets disappear.