A digital twin of Portugal's largest biofuel plant, scanned in one day with the Apus-MX

The plant is large and complex, with long runs of pipework and a great deal of industrial equipment. The client needed a high-precision digital twin to run the plant more efficiently, plan maintenance ahead and manage the facility proactively. Traditional surveying was slow, labour-intensive and not detailed enough.

• The Apus-MX captured the whole site in one day, using automatic ground control point recognition and one-click strip alignment.
• Regular scans produced detailed 3D models, which the client used to measure distances and heights and to spot structural problems early.
• The dense point clouds were fed into the client's digital systems for monitoring, maintenance planning and decisions.

• Point cloud accuracy better than 5 cm overall, and 1 to 2 cm in key zones.
• The full site was scanned in one day, and SatLab says more than 50% of the time and labour was saved.
• The client reports a 30% gain in efficiency and says the scans move it from reactive maintenance to proactive management.

SatLab Apus-MX UAV LiDAR, which combines a long-range laser scanner, an advanced IMU and an industrial RGB camera. We supply and support the Apus-MX in India, with training and service from Pune.

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