CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 May 2004
Company News
AVEVA and LEICA Announce Strategic, Collaborative Alliance
AVEVA has announced an alliance with Leica Geosystems HDS, Inc. (formerly Cyra), the 3D laser scanning products division of Leica Geosystems AG. The alliance is expected to bring significant improvements in the use of automatically captured 'as-built' plant information for new and ongoing engineering projects.
Gathering and maintaining accurate information about existing plant facilities is a recognized challenge to the engineering industry. The problem becomes particularly evident during site revamps and extensions when projects that are modeled using the latest IT technology have to tie into and avoid physical 'clashes' with existing installations for which there may be no reliable digital geometric model.
Leica is already acknowledged as being the market leader in the field of laser scanning - a technique that employs reflected lasers to create geometrically accurate digital models of existing structures. Recent advancements have made 3D laser scanning a fast, cost-effective option, offering project teams close integration with design systems to improve the performance of the revamp project. Increased recognition of the value of plant data and the need to execute revamp projects with minimum plant downtime, are fuelling the adoption of the technology (also known as High-Definition Surveying).
AVEVA has had an association with as-built capture processes such as photogrammetry since the 1970s. This alliance will integrate state-of-the-art 3D, laser-scanned survey data (known as 'point cloud' data) with AVEVA's VANTAGE Plant Design Management System (PDMS).
Leica produces accurate, versatile laser-scanning hardware. By using it in conjunction with Leica's Cyclone software technology, engineers can process point cloud data directly for use with PDMS. Collaboration between the two companies will therefore deliver genuine advancements in utilizing point cloud data on projects.
Leica Geosystems HDS Inc. (formerly Cyra Technologies Inc.), http://hds.leica-geosystems.com or http://www.cyra.com , specializes in the development, manufacture and marketing of High-Definition SurveyingT (also known as 3D laser scanning) systems and software.
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