3D imaging + AI: a short route to the reconstruction of digital twins for existing process plants

3D imaging combined with AI enables the rapid creation of accurate digital twins for existing process plants. This approach streamlines the reconstruction process by automatically detecting assets (piping and associated process equipment) within 3D surveys of very large plants. Combined with the detection of lines and symbols in existing 2D flowsheets, this approach eliminates the time-consuming process of reconstructing as-built CAD models. The second main advantage is that it offers very short update cycles, where users in the field can keep asset information synchronised, by annotating P&IDs or generating 3D updates of newly installed equipment from a video taken with ny mobile device (smartphone, work tablet). This ensures that technical information update times are always shorter than installation modification times.