Refinery process unit, Bavaria
Laser Scanning · Digital Twin

Refinery Process Unit

A complete reality-capture and digital-twin project for the structural steel, process piping, instrumentation and mechanical equipment of a refinery process unit in Bavaria, Germany.

BavariaGermany
Oil & GasRefining
SmartPlant 3DAs-built twin
Overview

From a live refinery to a connected digital twin

The client needed an accurate, up-to-date model of an operating refinery process unit where the original documentation no longer matched the as-built reality. Decades of modifications meant drawings could not be trusted for planning new work safely.

Ulysta deployed 3D laser scanning to capture the unit exactly as it stands, then processed and registered the point cloud into a fully intelligent SmartPlant 3D model — covering structural steel, process piping, instrumentation and mechanical equipment, each tagged and connected to its engineering data.

The result is a single, trustworthy source of truth the client can use for clash-free planning, maintenance and future revamps — without sending crews into the field to re-measure.

What we delivered

Reality capture, end to end

3D Laser Scanning

High-density reality capture of the entire process unit, indoors and out.

Point-cloud Processing

Registration, cleaning and georeferencing of the captured scan data.

Intelligent 3D Model

An as-built SmartPlant 3D model of steel, piping, instruments and equipment.

Tagged Engineering Data

Every component connected to its tag and engineering attributes.

100%As-built coverage
4Disciplines modelled
ZeroRe-measurement trips
1Source of truth

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