Revolutionising Smart Factories with reality capture

Author:Renata BarradasGutiérrez

Productivity and sustainability – these are the forces driving the need forconnectivity和integration of technologieswithin the manufacturing processes. This integration, known as the智能工厂，驱动器automated and connected factories, increasing productivity and value across all the supply network。

Inautonomous connected ecosystems,data is connected seamlessly, converging the physical and digital worlds, and building intelligence into all processes. Autonomous connected factories, or Smart Factories, l实时赚取并迅速适应不断变化的条件, pursuingperfect quality with optimised design，需要更少的输入并产生零废物。

Digital copies of the physical world are one of the key elements of a Smart Factory. To manage and monitor physical processes in an autonomous decentralised way,numerous technologies need to be orchestrated within copies of the physical world。

Mirroring the physical world for automation

Elettric80，一家领先的公司专门针对高批量消费产品制造商实施灵活和模块化集成自动化解决方案bob综合app下载3D reality capture to design modern automated warehouses。This Italian company has installed more than2,000 automatic systems all around the world, earning worldwide recognition as one of the market leaders in集成的自动化解决方案。

“ 3D激光扫描的使用正在成为我们所有装置中的标准。借助环境的数字化，我们能够开发和“虚拟地部署”我们的系统，因此我们可以预见到现有环境中的集成可能引起的问题，”said Vittorio Cavirani, general manager at Elettric80.

To design andbuild effective and safe factories根据制造商的应用需求设计，Elettric80专家digitalise each plant before design和development. Using a combination of Leica Geosystems’ laser scanners and a total station, experts can produce various deliverables, including2D布局，3D网眼和模型：

• Plant layout validation.
• Design and optimise trajectories and safety areas for Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) based on the available space and prevent vehicle collision.
• Place robot workcell respecting the actual clearances of the environment.
• Automatically extract operation points (points where the autonomous vehicles perform tasks, such as pallet pick-up and drop).
• 通过在数字模型中移动车辆来执行“虚拟部署”。
• Complete ground quality inspection.

“The design of modern automated warehouses is a complex task that requires detailed and accurate models of industrial buildings. The common approach to update existing 2D floor plans is to perform surveys based on sparse measures, taken by hand-held instruments, such as laser distance meters, or total stations. Although these instruments provide very accurate point-to-point measures, the amount of data that can be acquired may not be sufficient, resulting in high costs and delays,”Elettric80的研发项目负责人Mikhail Giorgini说。“Therefore, Elettric80 decided toapply 3D terrestrial laser scanning technology to overcome the limitationsof traditional surveys. Thanks to this workflow, the real deployment of the plant becomes a straightforward and low-risk phase.”

The basis for automation

自动化仓库包括沿预定义路径移动的AGV以及固定的机器人工作单。为了使托盘机器人自动化机器人，各种激光导向车辆，高速机器人拉伸包装纸，托盘控制系统，机器人标签机，包装和标签系统，设计师需要充分了解建筑环境并在可操作的模型上工作那镜像现实。

“We adopted a novel workflow for the design of automated warehouses that improved the traditional development process by performing a3D调查结合了terrestrial laser scanners和total station。Then extracted high-level information about the environment, exploiting innovative algorithms for large-scale point cloud processing,”乔金尼说。

The reality capture solution used by Elettric80 consists of:

• Leica Nova TS60total station
• Leica ScanStation P30高清3D激光扫描仪
• Leica RTC3603D激光扫描仪
• Leica BLK360imaging laser scanner
• Leica Cyclone REGISTERpoint cloud registration software

RTC360和P30扫描仪用于大规模3D调查in conjunction with a TS60 total station forcontrol point measurements。BLK360用于初步调查。该团队注册在旋风寄存器中扫描数据，并将数据重新介绍到Elettric80的专有软件中。

With a need to handle data at a large scale, the Italian company selected Leica Geosystems due to the高精准度,reliability和worldwide support offered。“ Leica Geosystems提供了state-of-the-art solution- both in terms of precision and reliability - when it comes to data acquisition. When we had some problems,we have always been assisted而且，即使在充满挑战的情况下，我们一直都能够完成工作。”said Fabio Oleari, R&D team leader at Elettric80.

共同的信念 - 赋予自治的未来

Shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous is a goal that both Hexagon and Elettric80 are fulfilling.

有一个complete 3D model仓库帮助Elettric80improve operational efficiency through optimisation of design，生产路线，机器维护和定位的管理。经过将现实捕获整合到其过程中bob综合app赌博，专家知道没有访问网站的情况，打开一个competitive advantage。

“We’ll continue to invest in3D调查solutions进一步reduce the deployment time of our custom solutions,”said Domenico Di Terlizzi, R&D manager at Elettric80。“The benefits of this project have been disruptive, and drastically changed the way Elettric80 meets the needs of its customers.”