Improving Industrial Safety with the Leica BLK360

图片：Tologa Engineering AG

Industrial production is a combination of very complex processes and procedures, which must be precisely coordinated to achieve maximum efficiency with minimum wear and tear. The abrasion of production machines and their parts is always a significant factor, which is why certain parts must be repaired or replaced regularly. Not least also to keep the risk of an unplanned stop and loss of production as low as possible. Therefore, parts of a plant are shut down at regular intervals to be able to carry out scheduled inspection work safely.

How can a Leica Geosystems laser scanner, for example, theBLK360，帮助安全经理和检查人员支持他们在工厂的工作？通过创建工厂的数字双（完整的3D模型），可以随时随地从任何地方进行实际检查。

The procedure of a revision in a waste incineration plant

让我们看一看a waste incineration plant as an example. A waste incineration plant does not only incinerate waste and residual materials but also generates energy. A complicated system of pipes and walls with cables encloses the place of incineration. The water fed into the system turns into steam and the steam can be used for heating, for example, or drives a turbine to generate electricity. During combustion, temperatures of sometimes well over 1000°C can occur. The temperatures are highest in the main fire area, which is why this area is often the most maintenance intensive.

The risks for the installation teams

The high temperature of the combustion puts an extraordinary strain on all materials and components of the plant. In addition to the temperature, also different physical and chemical reactions take place. Respective procedures and tasks must be completed for a successful revision within a usually very tight schedule. The environment of the individual workplaces plays a special role here. They are often closed spaces, such as e.g. tanks or large sections of the production line itself, which enclose the loading area, the main fire area and the subsequent path of the exhaust gases caused by the combustion up to the chimney.

图片：Tologa Engineering AG

The inspection of such hazardous areas requires very specific tasks and procedures, which must be carried out in parallel or consecutively and are sometimes interdependent. This can be quite complicated when other parts of the plant are still running. Many plants have several production lines, which are rarely all inspected at the same time for safety reasons. All these factors influence very important topics, which are industrial and occupational safety.

Safety at work

职业安全对工厂的工作产生了巨大影响。特别是在连续修订任务的协调方面。职业安全甚至是在组装质量甚至生产时间表之前。像植物员工的安全和健康维护团队，运营商或供应商的优先级最高。

修订管理和计划

审核，修订和维护工作需要非常良好的计划。主要的挑战之一是根据机器和设备的磨损以及适当修订所需的成本和时间，正确估计需要维修的需求，尤其是在一个或多个上可能中断或延迟的生产中断或延迟生产线。

是否可以成功地进行审计取决于这些因素：

• 多快可以得到系统的完整图片
• How quickly the collected data can be processed and analysed
• How well the maintenance teams are prepared for dangerous or unforeseen situations
• 如何及时发现和th交换吗e relevant parties
• How quickly informed decisions can be made

莉卡BLK360成像激光扫描仪provides the best information for decision-makers

Decision-makers need reliable and comprehensive information. With the help of theBLK360，来自Leica Geosystems的高度便携式成像激光扫描仪，有关主要火灾和加力，炉排，炉排，炉渣斜槽，充电和过渡到第二列火车的信息以及脚手架上的材料，在废物焚化厂中收集。它可能是工厂中维护最密集的部分。

The comprehensive data collection and the documentation were made within only 2 hours of work. The result was the so-called “Digital twin”, a millimetre-accurate image of the plant in 3D, which can be "walked through" virtually at any time.

根据这些信息，安全经理能够制定逃生或恢复计划，这在当今许多发电厂中都是强制性的。逃生计划是为在工厂工作的人们最快，最安全的疏散而设计的。疏散计划还帮助救援服务找到正确的运输受伤工人并迅速安全地在工厂中移动的方法。

Pictures: TOLOGA Engineering AG

The details of the scaffolding construction are here an essential part of a safety concept for the revision of the plant to detect possible defects. The position of the scaffolding within the boiler construction is also important. In the so-called boiler house, there is a construction of stairways, different floors, pipes, ducts and tubes. Often there are more than 7 floors with different heights in a plant.

Decision-makers, plant staff and emergency services need to know where the water connections, compressed air and electricity are located, and the ways to get from one floor to the next section of the building in the fastest and safest way. Detailed plant plans are also important for safe navigation within a facility to know where a freight elevator is located to transport materials, where the control room is, where are the eye-rinsing facilities, where is the defibrillator and where is the emergency telephone?

For the creation of the digital twin of a plan, theBLK360imaging laser scanner:

• Measures entire plants with millimetre precision and unparalleled speed
• Simplifies the documentation of hazardous and hard to reach areas due to its small size and high performance (the imaging laser scanner can be mounted on an extendable tripod. Cranes, lifting platforms and descenders are no longer required.)
• Minimises the time spent in potentially dangerous operating locations
• Maximises the safety of on-site personnel through prior virtual preparation and virtual visit of the digital twin of the plant
  

从植物的综合3D文档中获得的知识，BLK360can be used by the safety managers and other decision-makers both: for the upcoming revision and future maintenance measures.

根据明智的决定，保证执行修订或救援行动的安全环境，并且可以随时随地“实际上”和任何地方“实际上”，与涉及的不同各方“虚拟地”检查和访问工厂的3D模型修订过程。

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My name is Mathias Fahning and I work for Hexagon Geosystems as Business Development Manager in the area of Public Safety, Security and Forensics.

我为德国德国联邦政府服务了几年。2005年12月，我按计划结束并授予“德国武装部队荣誉勋章”的授予。

From 2005 on I focused on a civilian career. For 10 years I was employed by Mokesa AG (Basel, Switzerland) as technical project manager and the company's security officer. Between 2017 and 2018 I worked for a Dutch company as General Manager in the field of security.

从2018年到2019年，Faro Europe GmbH雇用了公共安全部门的销售工程师和业务发展经理。