Revolutionising Smart Factories with reality capture

作者：Renata Barradas Gutiérrez

生产力和可持续性 - 这些是推动需求的力量连接性and技术的集成在制造过程中。这种整合，称为Smart Factory, drives自动化和连接的工厂，提高所有供应网络的生产率和价值。

In自动连接的生态系统,data is connected seamlessly，将物理和数字世界融合，并将智能融入所有过程。自动互联工厂或智能工厂Learn and adapt quickly to changing conditions in real time, pursuingperfect quality with optimised design, requiring fewer inputs and producing zero waste.

物理世界的数字副本是智能工厂的关键要素之一。以自主分散的方式管理和监视物理过程，需要在物理世界的副本中精心策划许多技术。

Mirroring the physical world for automation

Elettric80, a leading company specialised in the implementation of flexible and modular integrated automation solutions for high-volume consumer products manufacturers, uses3D reality capture to design modern automated warehouses。This Italian company has installed more than全世界有2,000个自动系统，赢得全球认可是市场领导者之一integrated automation solutions。

“The use of the 3D laser scanning is becoming a standard in all our installations. With the digitalisation of the environment, we are able to develop and ‘virtually deploy’ our systems, so we can anticipate problems that may arise from the integration within the existing environment,”said Vittorio Cavirani, general manager at Elettric80.

To design and建立有效且安全的工厂designed according to the manufacturer’s application needs, Elettric80 expertsdigitalise each plant before designand development. Using a combination of Leica Geosystems’ laser scanners and a total station, experts can produce various deliverables, including2D layouts, 3D meshesand models to:

• 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).
• Perform a ‘virtual deployment’ by moving vehicles within the digital models.
• Complete ground quality inspection.

“现代自动化仓库的设计是一项复杂的任务，需要详细而准确的工业建筑模型。更新现有2楼平面图的常见方法是根据稀疏的措施，手持仪器（例如激光距离仪表或总站）进行调查。bob apple尽管这些仪器提供了非常准确的点对点措施，但可以获取的数据量可能不够，从而导致高成本和延误，”said Mikhail Giorgini, R&D project leader at Elettric80. “因此，elettric80决定应用3D陆地激光扫描技术来克服限制of traditional surveys. Thanks to this workflow, the real deployment of the plant becomes a straightforward and low-risk phase.”

自动化的基础

Automated warehouses include AGVs that move along predefined paths, as well as fixed robot workcells. To automate palletizing robots, a wide range of Laser Guided Vehicles, high-speed robotic stretch wrappers, pallet control systems, robotic labellers, wrapping and labelling systems among other, designers need to have a full understanding of the built environment and work on actionable models that mirror reality.

“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 scannersand atotal station。然后提取有关环境的高级信息，利用创新算法进行大规模点云处理，”said Giorgini.

The reality capture solution used by Elettric80 consists of:

• Leica Nova TS60total station
• Leica ScanStation P30high-definition 3D laser scanner
• Leica RTC3603D laser scanner
• Leica BLK360imaging laser scanner
• Leica Cyclone寄存器点云注册软件

The RTC360 and P30 ScanStation are used for大规模3D调查in conjunction with a TS60 total station forcontrol point measurements。The BLK360 is used for preliminary surveys. The team registers scanned data in Cyclone REGISTER and re-imports data into Elettric80’s proprietary software.

With a need to handle data at a large scale, the Italian company selected Leica Geosystems due to thehigh precision,可靠性and提供全球支持。“Leica Geosystems provides astate-of-the-art solution- 在精确度和可靠性方面 - 在数据获取方面。当我们遇到一些问题时我们一直得到协助and we always have been able to get the job done, even in challenging scenarios,”Elettric80的研发团队负责人Fabio Oleari说。

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.

Having a完整的3D型号仓库帮助Elettric80improve operational efficiency through optimisation of design, production routes, management of maintenance and positioning of machines. Byintegrating reality capture into its processes，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solutionsto further减少我们自定义解决方案的部署时间,”said Domenico Di Terlizzi, R&D manager at Elettric80。“这个项目已经disrupti的好处ve, and drastically changed the way Elettric80 meets the needs of its customers.”