We Capture, Model, and Digitize

Industrial Environments

We digitize real-world environments using high-precision 3D laser scanning, generating point clouds and digital models that optimize engineering, design, and industrial maintenance projects.

3D Laser Scanning

CADE integrates 3D laser scanning technology into its engineering services, enabling the capture of high-precision point clouds and photorealistic digital models.

This service is used across engineering and consulting projects, as well as in targeted data acquisition and industrial asset digitization campaigns, providing an exact representation of the existing environment for analysis, modeling, and subsequent intervention.

3D laser scanning is a transversal capability within CADE, delivering efficiency, reliability, and technical rigor throughout all project phases.

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Consulting and Evaluation of

Existing Assets

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3D laser scanning is especially valuable when high-accuracy data capture is required. This data is essential for the integrity assessment and fitness-for-service (FFS) evaluation of existing critical systems, including:

  • Equipment

  • Piping

  • Industrial systems showing defects such as:

    • Loss of verticality

    • Dents

    • Permanent deformations

    • Wall thinning

It’s also critical when original design documentation is unavailable.

Likewise, in cases involving failure investigations—such as ruptures, crack initiation and propagation—the precise physical characterization of the asset is necessary for follow-up numerical simulations and forensic evaluation.

Brownfield Projects and As-Built Engineering

Accurate and reliable measurement of an existing facility is vital for any modification, expansion, or upgrade following its original construction and design.

By capturing a detailed point cloud of the installation, it becomes possible to:

  • Develop an As-Built model updated to reflect actual site conditions vs. original design

  • Identify spatial constraints and interferences prior to executing new plant modifications or expansions

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CADE integrates 3D laser scanning into brownfield and As-Built projects for:

  • Updating engineering documentation (As-Built)

  • Data acquisition and engineering layout for plant modifications

  • Integrating engineering design into real-world models via point clouds

  • Detecting deviations during construction vs. engineering documentation

  • Monitoring construction progress and identifying schedule delays

  • Assessing foundation settlement for equipment

  • Planning and designing installation and assembly sequences

  • Scan-to-BIM and 3D building capture for architecture and construction sectors

Dimensional Control of

Equipment Fabrication

Geometric validation of static equipment in workshops (columns, reactors, towers, heat exchangers, etc.) before shipping is essential to avoid complications during site installation and integration.

By comparing point clouds with 3D CAD models from the design phase, we carry out dimensional control of equipment, verifying:

  • Ovality

  • Elevation, orientation, and projection of connections

  • Shell verticality

  • Flange face deflection

  • Weld deformations and defects

  • Dimensions and positioning of special components (saddles, cradles, supports)

  • Flange measurements

  • Bundle volumetric dimensions for insertion (exchangers)

  • Positioning, elevation, and orientation of internals, trays, pipe supports, welded clips

 
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Results from this dimensional verification process allow for corrections to be made directly at the workshop, or to be accounted for during the installation phase.

Additionally, owners can use the CAD models based on the point cloud to update the 3D digital twin of the facility (As-Built), ensuring proper integration with all other elements and systems.

Albacete

Parque Científico y Tecnológico

Paseo de la Innovación 3, 02006 Albacete – España

Tel. +34 967 19 01 72

Madrid

C/Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 53 (Entreplanta)

28020

Madrid – España

Albacete

Parque Científico y Tecnológico

Paseo de la Innovación 3, 02006 Albacete – España

Tel. +34 967 19 01 72

Madrid

C/Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 53 (Entreplanta)

28020

Madrid – España

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