VB AssetTwin captures your plant as it stands · LiDAR scan, point cloud, as-built P&IDs, isometrics, GA drawings · and hands over a digital-twin-ready handoff in 90 days. Annual reality-capture refresh keeps the twin in step with plant reality.
Brownfield plants have been retrofitted three, five, ten times. The last drawing revision reflects the plant that existed on Day 1, not Day 3,650.
Every capex decision, every HAZOP, every commissioning check that relies on a stale drawing is compounding risk. LiDAR closes the gap between drawing set and physical plant · in weeks, not years. VB AssetTwin makes reality capture a product, not a service. Fixed scope for baseline. Fixed scope for annual refresh. Digital-twin-ready handoff baked into the delivery. What you buy is not a point cloud sitting on a hard drive · it is a living twin that a plant head, an EHS lead, a HAZOP facilitator, and a capex planner can all query on the same data model.
Twelve years of brownfield LiDAR and drawing-authorship work across refineries, steel plants, cement, pharma, and industrial ports.
Every stage produces a deliverable that a digital transformation lead, a plant head, and a capex planner all trust as source of truth.
LiDAR reality capture · control network · registration
Registration · classification · de-noising · segmentation
As-built P&IDs · isometrics · GA drawings from cloud
CEng MIE review · tie-in verification · drawing sign-off
Digital-twin-ready handoff + annual refresh retainer
Terrestrial LiDAR under Class I Div 2 discipline where required. Control points established with total station or GNSS baseline. Every scan station registered to the same coordinate system as the client asset register.
Access permitting, hot-work permitting, and confined-space entry planned before scan mobilisation. Scan crew is CEng MIE supervised · not a subcontracted GIS surveyor. What we capture is what plant engineers can use, not just visualise.
Post-processing under Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360 or FARO SCENE. Classification separates ground, structural steel, piping, vessels, cable trays, and instruments into discrete point cloud layers · each queryable independently.
De-noising removes personnel, vehicles, and transient objects. What remains is a plant fingerprint that any downstream tool · CADWorx, PDMS, SmartPlant, AVEVA E3D · can consume as reference. The point cloud is not the deliverable · what you author from it is.
Every drawing authored against the point cloud. P&IDs redlined at the tie-in points where reality diverges from the last revision. Isometrics generated for every reticulation added, moved, or retired since the previous authoring cycle. GA drawings updated for every structural or equipment change.
ISA S5.1 for P&ID symbology. ISO 6428 for drawing conventions. IEEE 315 where electrical single-lines are in scope. Every drawing carries a revision block, a checker signature, and a CEng MIE reviewer signature. When plant operations opens a drawing, they open truth.
Principal Reviewer walks the plant with the drawings and the point cloud. Every tie-in critical to safety or production is verified against the cloud model. Every discrepancy is logged, resolved, and re-issued.
Drawings do not leave VB Engineering with a single signature. Practice Lead LiDAR + Principal Reviewer both sign. The client receives a package that any auditor, any HAZOP facilitator, and any capex planner will accept without a walkdown.
The point cloud and the authored drawings assemble into a digital-twin-ready handoff file · CFIHOS aligned so any Industry 4.0 platform can ingest it as the baseline asset model. Every subsequent condition-monitoring data point, every work order, every inspection lands against a real plant object.
Annual reality-capture refresh keeps the twin honest. Year 2 onwards you subscribe to a living twin backed by an engineering practice that keeps it accurate · not just a hard drive.
Every drawing, every twin, every handoff written to withstand a Digital Handover audit under CFIHOS or an ISO 19650 information review.
Four things make VB AssetTwin different from a one-off LiDAR contractor. Every one is a productization decision that compounds over the retainer.
Not a subcontracted GIS surveyor. A Chartered Engineer supervises the scan · which means the capture serves the drawings, not the other way around.
Practice Lead + Principal Reviewer both sign every drawing package. No drawing leaves with one signature · matches EPC discipline.
The twin file is written to Capital Facilities Information HandOver Specification · so it lands cleanly in any Industry 4.0 platform your team chooses.
Reality capture as a subscription · not a project. Plant evolves, twin evolves with it. Year 5 is a signature · not a rebuild.
Year 1 delivers the twin. Years 2 to 5 keep it accurate as the plant evolves.
Complete reality capture + authoring + validation + twin handoff. Baseline asset model locked. Coordinate system, revision numbering, and change protocol agreed.
Point cloud refreshed for areas with material change. Drawings re-authored. Twin re-baselined against reality. First MoC-driven twin update cycle.
Complete re-scan on 40 percent rolling coverage. Twin schema audited for drift · CFIHOS alignment re-verified. Cross-functional review with EHS + Ops + Capex.
Point cloud refresh at HAZOP-flagged areas. Retired equipment removed from twin. Drawing set aligned to physical retirements.
Complete re-scan on 100 percent plant coverage. Twin re-baselined. Client renews retainer or graduates to platform-only support cadence.
Three brownfield reality-capture engagements delivered under the VB AssetTwin discipline. Names withheld · descriptive framing preserves technical integrity.
Client had drawings 12 revisions behind reality after three retrofits. LiDAR captured entire plant in 22 days across 340 scan stations. As-built P&IDs authored against cloud · 4,200 tie-in discrepancies logged and resolved. Twin file handed over ready for Industry 4.0 overlay.
Steel plant with 20 years of retrofits and no consolidated drawing set. Point cloud captured over 6 weeks. Drawings re-authored discipline by discipline · mechanical, piping, electrical, structural. HAZOP facilitator picked up the new register 4 months later · study closed in half the expected duration.
GMP audit exposed a 6-year gap between as-built drawings and installed plant. LiDAR + authoring completed in 62 days under weekend-only scan windows to avoid production disruption. Twin baseline handed over. Regulatory inspection passed on the next audit cycle.
A 5-minute form. Practice Lead LiDAR + As-Built routes to the reality-capture desk within 2 business hours. Every response signed by CEng MIE.
Bring us your plot plan and your last drawing revision date. We will scope the LiDAR window that closes the gap.
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