March 21, 2011 - AVEVA announced Laser Modeller, which transforms laser scan data into intelligent, as-built 3D plant models. Creation of an accurate 3D model for existing brownfield facilities allows Owner Operators to optimise the operations of their assets and significantly reduce the lead time on upgrade and revamp projects in a way that is simply not possible with historic applications. Traditional techniques for converting laser scan data into an intelligent 3D model require many days of costly modelling services for each hour of scanning time. In most cases, the cost is too high to justify the total investment in 3D.
Laser Modeller changes the fundamental ground rules by automating most aspects of the modelling process, producing a fully intelligent 3D model at a fraction of the time and cost of existing techniques. Laser Modeller can accept scan data from any of the leading laser scanning vendors so users are not locked into a specific hardware supplier. It directly generates 3D models to feed into a visual asset management strategy, and for Brownfield projects using native PDMS component catalogues, delivers a fully intelligent PDMS model. This completely transforms the modelling process by eliminating the unnecessary service intensive steps, dramatically reducing the time and cost of model creation.