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.

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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.

Consulting and Evaluation of

Existing Assets

The use of 3D laser scanning equipment is particularly valuable when reliable, high-precision data acquisition is required. This information is essential for the integrity and fitness-for-service evaluation of existing assets such as equipment, piping, or systems—often high-responsibility components—that exhibit defects to be analyzed using Fitness-for-Service (FFS) methodology (e.g., loss of verticality, denting, permanent deformations, wall thinning, etc.), or in cases where original design documentation is unavailable.

Consulting: Assessment of existing industrial assets using 3D laser scanning.

Likewise, in situations where the objective is to determine the root causes of failure in a critical asset (e.g., equipment, piping, ducts, structures) due to breakage, crack initiation, and propagation, a precise and rigorous physical characterization of these elements is strictly necessary for their subsequent study and evaluation through numerical simulation models.

Brownfield Projects and As-Built Engineering

Having accurate and reliable measurements of an existing facility is essential for carrying out modifications, expansions, or improvements after its original design and construction.

By acquiring a point cloud of the facility, it is possible to both generate a fully updated As-Built model—compared to the original engineering design documentation (design vs. construction)—and to identify potential constraints or interferences when planning new modifications or expansions to the existing installation.

Some of the 3D laser scanner applications integrated by CADE in this type of project include:

  • As-Built updating of engineering documentation

  • Data acquisition and engineering layout for plant modifications or expansions

  • Integration of engineering design into the real model through point cloud data

  • Identification of deviations during construction execution compared to engineering design documentation

  • Control and supervision of construction progress (enabling the detection of schedule deviations)

  • Monitoring and identification of equipment foundation settlement status

  • Design and planning of installation and assembly sequences and maneuvers

  • Scan-to-BIM and 3D surveying of buildings for the architecture and construction sector

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

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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