As-built and P&ID validation
Extract the real pipe, steel, and equipment geometry to validate P&IDs against the facility and feed 3D design platforms with conditions that match the plant.
For Industrial Plants
The plant as it actually stands, so the tie-in fits and the turnaround holds.
A process plant changes constantly and the drawings never keep up, which is why every turnaround starts with engineers confirming what is really in the field. We scan the running facility, pipe racks, steel, vessels, valves, and equipment, at millimeter accuracy with no shutdown, and hand you one registered point cloud that is the honest as-built. New engineering gets designed against it, tie-ins get verified before fabrication, and the field surprises leave the schedule.
The plant changed. The drawings did not.
A process plant is never finished. Lines get added, valves get moved, pumps get swapped, and a decade of small changes leaves the P&IDs and the isometrics describing a facility that no longer exists. When it comes time to plan a tie-in, a turnaround, or a new skid, the old drawings send your engineers into the field to confirm what is actually there, and the ones that are wrong get discovered the expensive way.
A laser scan captures the plant exactly as it stands, pipe racks, structural steel, vessels, valves, and equipment, as one registered point cloud at millimeter accuracy, with no shutdown required. That cloud is the honest as-built. New engineering gets designed against it, tie-ins get verified before fabrication, and the field surprises drop out of the schedule.
What plants use scanning for
Turnaround and tie-in planning
Confirm clearances, routes, and connection points before a turnaround, so prefabricated spools and skids fit on the first attempt and downtime stays short.
Digital twin foundation
A navigable, measured model of the facility that becomes the base for asset management, planning, and monitoring, updated as the plant changes.
Millimeter accuracy without a shutdown.
Terrestrial scanning captures a running plant from the walkways and grade, so the facility keeps operating while the survey happens. The registered cloud holds every visible surface at millimeter accuracy, dense enough that a pipe, a support, and a vessel all read at their true size and position, which is the accuracy process design and clash-free fabrication depend on.
The value is in what it removes. A scanning-based digital twin has been reported to pay back in roughly a year and a half and to cut maintenance costs by a wide margin, because accurate as-built data replaces repeated field trips, rework, and the guesswork that stretches a turnaround. Line of sight is the limit, so anything buried or fully enclosed is captured where it is visible, not through the solid.
Published prices.
| Deliverable | Price |
|---|---|
| Half-day scan (capture) | $1,500 to $2,300 to start |
| Full-day scan (capture) | $3,500 to $4,100 to start |
| Modeling from the scan | $0.10 / sq ft ($500 min) |
Capture is the scan. Plant work scopes to the area, the density of the piping and equipment, and the deliverable, from a validated as-built to a full digital twin, so we confirm the number once we understand the facility. Tell us the area and what you need documented and we quote it.
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Tell us about the facility.
Send us the plant, the area, and the systems you need documented, pipe racks, steel, vessels, or the whole unit. We scan it live, register it, and hand you an as-built and a model your engineers can design and plan against.
Get a quoteQuestions about a project? Reach us at info@scanningandmodeling.com or (772) 210-4584.