Recipe for Success: 3D laser scanning for tank inspections

作者：瓦格纳·曼努格（Wagner Manurung）

What’s the best way to inspect a 45-metre-tall tank of flour? And calculate the flour in a huge stockpile? Those are the challenges for the project team at PT Wilmar Indonesia. The company is part of威尔玛国际有限公司, Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar operates an integrated agribusiness model that encompasses the entire value chain of the agricultural commodity business, from cultivation, processing, merchandising to manufacturing of a wide range of agricultural products, including rice and wheat flour. It has an extensive distribution network covering China, India, five factories in Indonesia and a presence in 50 other countries and regions.

Processing agricultural products at this scale involves storing huge quantities of produce in tanks and silos. Upkeep of these enormous vessels is a serious business. The tanks are a critical financial resource for the company as well as being subject to international safety standards. At PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, the project team must regularly inspect all above-ground storage tanks, reporting to management the measurements that indicate the integrity of the structures. Previously, tank inspection was a time-consuming manual process.

更快的检查而没有任何妥协

PT Wilmar Indonesia wanted to find a way to make the tank inspection process more efficient. Faster, but without requiring more manpower. A new solution could not compromise the accuracy of the data or the safety of the team – ideally improving both.

PT Wilmar已经在业务的其他部分中是Leica Geosystems用户选择实施激光扫描。该公司为项目团队配备了Leica RTC360激光扫描仪数字扫描筒仓和旋风3dr用于数据分析的软件。RTC360 3D激光扫描仪的测量速率高达每秒200万点，并且具有先进的高动力范围（HDR）成像系统，可在两分钟内完成彩色3D点云。

bob综合app赌博现实捕获已改变了检查。与手动检查相比，他们现在可以捕获有关每天15辆坦克的信息，手动检查需要每个储罐3到4天。这是惊人的4,500％的效率。

Comprehensive data capture to meet regulations

手动检查很耗时，因为要符合国际坦克检查标准（API 650/653），您需要准确收集多个数据标准，包括直径测量，圆度，坦克的垂直度和内容的结算。这是衡量生产量的补充，这对业务来说是重要的信息。

By capturing a 3D image of the tanks, the RTC360 scanners collect this information within minutes, the project team can extract it from the point cloud. A PT Wilmar spokesperson explains, “This analysis process is done by the旋风3drsoftware which is dedicated for calibration and silo inspection according to international standards.”

易于使用的软件减少培训时间

由于该项目引入3D激光扫描的目的是提高效率，因此新技术无法对团队的时间提出额外的需求。PT Wilmar的一位发言人发现，该解决方案易于使用，培训很少，“ Leica Geosystems产品易于设置和运行，因此我们不需要太多时间才能学习。”bob综合app下载

轻巧的便携式激光扫描仪对团队的工作方式产生了积极影响。需要在现场进行检查，以释放时间进行数据分析进行检查。PT Wilmar的发言人解释说：“ [我们在人力资源上有一个限制来进行数据处理。使用RTC360在使用的RTC360上很少需要进行现场工作（只有一两个），而其他团队成员可以在办公室处理数据。”

提高安全性，生产中断较少

以前，在使用活动机械的工厂区域，进行物理进行测量的需求可能会破坏。3D激光扫描是一种非侵入性技术，可从远处捕获测量。附近的机械不需要关闭，也没有污染的风险。这使激光扫描更安全的操作员，并且对业务更有生产力。

As well as using the RTC360 for tank inspections, PT Wilmar's project team have been using them for stockpile calculations, where the ability to measure from a distance has been a real benefit: “We get accuracy on the calculation and it’s easy to proceed, so we have no issue anymore with high or large stockpiles. Previously, we used total stations and faced a difficult process in the field. Now, we are glad that we don’t necessarily need to climb the stockpile of the flour to measure the volume!.”

使用RTC360激光扫描仪和Cyclone 3DR软件进行坦克检查，这对于PT Wilmar Indonesia来说是成功的。不仅满足了提高效率的目标，而且3D扫描使项目团队更容易向管理层向管理层报告维护和汇编其年度审核。

A spokesperson at PT Wilmar says, “It helps enable easy silo maintenance, changing conventional data into 3D data, creating clear reports on every angle of capturing data in the field. In the end, it helps PT Wilmar management to see real conditions in 3D data. The management team now does not need to go to the field to check the factory condition.” It is all there in the data-rich output of the 3D scans.