Improving Industrial Safety with the Leica BLK360

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工业生产的组合非常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

让我们以一个垃圾焚烧植物为例。废物焚化厂不仅会焚化废物和残留物质，而且会产生能量。带有电缆的管道和墙壁的复杂系统包含焚化位置。馈入系统的水变成蒸汽，例如，蒸汽可用于加热，或者驱动涡轮机发电。在燃烧过程中，有时会发生超过1000°C的温度。温度在主要火灾区域最高，这就是为什么该区域通常是维护最多的原因。

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.

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这种危险区域的检验需要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

Occupational safety has an enormous influence on the work in a plant. Especially on the coordination of the consecutive revision tasks. Occupational safety comes even before the quality of the assembly or even the production schedule. The safety and health of the plant employees like e.g. maintenance teams, operators or suppliers have the highest priority.

修订管理和计划

Audits, revisions and maintenance works require exceptionally good planning. One of the major challenges is to correctly estimate the need for repairs, based on wear and tear of the machines and equipment as well as the costs and the time required for proper revision, especially concerning a possible interruption or delay in production on one or more production lines.

Whether an audit can be carried out successfully depends, among others, on these factors:

• 多快可以得到系统的完整图片
• 收集到的数据可以多快处理和分析
• 维护团队为危险或不可预见的情况做好了准备
• How promptly can the findings be exchanged with the relevant parties
• How quickly informed decisions can be made

LeicaBLK360成像激光扫描仪provides the best information for decision-makers

决策者需要可靠和全面的信息。在BLK360, a highly portable imaging laser scanner from Leica Geosystems, information about the main fire & afterburn, grate, slag chute, charging and transition to the 2nd train as well as the material on the scaffolding was collected in the waste incineration plant. It is probably the most maintenance-intensive part of the plant.

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.

Based on this information, safety managers were able to create an escape or recovery plan, which is mandatory in many power plants today. Escape plans are designed for the fastest and safest evacuation of the people working in the plant. The evacuation plans also help the rescue services to find the right way to transport injured workers and to move around the plant quickly and safely.

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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.

决策者，工厂工作人员和紧急服务需要知道以最快，最安全的方式从一楼到达建筑物的下一部分的水连接，压缩空气和电力的位置。详细的工厂计划对于设施中的安全导航也很重要，以了解运输电梯可以在哪里运输材料，控制室在哪里，倾眼设施在哪里，除颤器在哪里，紧急电话在哪里？

For the creation of the digital twin of a plan, theBLK360成像激光扫描仪：

• Measures entire plants with millimetre precision and unparalleled speed
• 简化了由于其尺寸较小和高性能的危险和难以到达区域的文档（成像激光扫描仪可以安装在可扩展的三脚架上。不再需要起重机，起重平台和后代。）
• 最大程度地减少在潜在危险的运营地点所花费的时间
• Maximises the safety of on-site personnel through prior virtual preparation and virtual visit of the digital twin of the plant
  

The knowledge gained from the comprehensive 3D documentation of the plant with theBLK360安全经理和其他决策者都可以使用：即将进行的修订和未来的维护措施。

Based on the informed decisions, a safe environment for the execution of a revision or a rescue operation is guaranteed and a 3D model of the plant can be inspected and visited "virtually" at any time and from any place, by the different parties involved in the revision process.

For more information about the BLK360 and our solutions in the field of industrial and occupational safety, please contact ushere。

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。