Plant reverse engineering uses 3D scanning and modeling techniques to create digital models of physical infrastructure from point cloud data in order to facilitate design, maintenance, and retrofitting. Dassault Systèmes provides a plant reverse engineering solution that imports point clouds and drawings to generate 3D models for virtual inspection and impact assessment of modifications. The solution supports conversion between various CAD formats and includes piping design applications. Laser scanning can also be used to create "intelligent" as-built 3D models from which pipework, steelwork, and other elements are automatically modeled. These techniques allow aging infrastructure to be digitally preserved through reverse engineering.

1. Plant Reverse Engineering
For Design, Construction, Installation and maintenance
Reverse Engineering is often a necessary process to revamp a plant or an equipment that were
built in the pre-computer era. There are several techniques that can be employed for
performing plant reverse engineering, for instance scanning 2D paper drawings or the asset
itself and then converting the data into a digital model that can be manipulated further.
Dassault Systèmes (DS)' Plant Reverse Engineering solution, supported by the CATIA brand,
provides a way to easily capitalize your asset information through reverse engineering and thus
enables the reconciliation of As-Designed and As-Is information. Cloud of points and 2D
drawings, which are captured by a scanner, can be imported into the system and converted into a
3D model. The 3D model facilitates the virtual inspection of the plant and can be used to study
the impact of a new equipment installation or removal.
Even when a digital model of the asset exist, there is often a need to convert the data from one
format to another. DS Plant Reverse Engineering solution also supports the conversion of 3D
models from other systems such as Autodesk, AVEVA, Bentley and Integraph. The solution also
provides dedicated applications for plant design such as piping and tubing which covers the
entire process from design to manufacturing planning.
Plant Reverse Engineering solution includes:
• 2D drawing management
• Reverse engineering
• Piping and tubing design
• Clash analysis
• Multi-CAD management
Plant Design Reverse Engineering
AVEVA Laser Modeller™ - NEW!
Turn 3D laser scan surveys into intelligent plant models
As-built plant information is often inaccurate, incomplete and hard to use. AVEVA Laser Modeller
overcomes these problems by using laser scan data to reverse-engineer intelligent, accurate as-built 3D
plant models, rapidly and at low cost.

2. Modelling pipework with AVEVA Laser Modeller
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Overview
For many plant Owner Operators, available as
drawings and photographs; incomplete, inaccurate
as-built design to exist as an accurate 3D model but, until now, the cost and timescale of
reverse-engineering has been prohibitive.
AVEVA Laser Modeller answers this need. It makes brownfield information truly evergreen, by
using laser scan data to create validated and
low cost.
Laser Modeller works with scan data from all the leading 3D laser sc
You can learn more about Laser Modeller’s unique features by selecting from the drop
above.
User Workspace
VEVA Laser Modeller features an easy to use, intuitive user interface and workspace, enabling
the user to visualise many different kinds of data simultaneously. From the same place, the user
can view:
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For many plant Owner Operators, available as-built information is often in the form of paper
incomplete, inaccurate and hard to use. Ideally, one would like the
built design to exist as an accurate 3D model but, until now, the cost and timescale of
engineering has been prohibitive.
odeller answers this need. It makes brownfield information truly evergreen, by
using laser scan data to create validated and intelligent as-built 3D plant models, rapidly and
Laser Modeller works with scan data from all the leading 3D laser scanning systems.
You can learn more about Laser Modeller’s unique features by selecting from the drop
es an easy to use, intuitive user interface and workspace, enabling
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You can learn more about Laser Modeller’s unique features by selecting from the drop-down
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3. • 3D laser model data
• Panoramic laser scan images
• Intelligent, as-built 3D model and associated database hierarchy
• Site plans with overlaid laser scan location
Access to multiple data views enables the user to better understand the relationship between
the laser scan data and the design data, and supports better decision making in the 3D
modelling process.
Intelligent 3D model creation
Laser Modeller generates an intelligent, as-built 3D model, directly from laser scan data, using
the modelling capabilities within the catalogue elements of AVEVA’s market-leading PDMS 3D
design solution. It extensively automates the 3D model generation process. Unlike other
available technologies there is no need, for example, to create intermediate geometry and then
remodel this separately into 3D model data.
Laser Modeller automatically selects the appropriate intelligent items from the PDMS catalogue
including:
• Piping
• Steelwork
• Equipment
If necessary, services are available to extend or fine-tune the component catalogues to meet
the needs of a client’s particular engineering conventions or site-specific requirements.
The resulting intelligent 3D model accurately reflects the as-built facility and can form the basis
of a common digital infrastructure for managing and maintaining the asset.
Editing and Manipulation
Within the user workspace, AVEVA Laser Modeller provides familiar functions for editing and
manipulating the generated 3D model. These include:
• Extend
• Intersect
• Rotate
• Mark up
• Annotate
These capabilities enable the relationship between the as-built and design information to be
refined and optimised, maximising the value of the 3D model as a collaborative plant information
resource.
Services and Solutions
Laser Modeller can be deployed as a stand-alone product or as part of an enterprise solution
comprising other AVEVA products.

4. AVEVA can provide specialist services to accommodate wide variations in customers'
engineering work processes and data structures, and to deliver tailored deployments
appropriate to individual operational environments.
Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering Overview w | Reverse Engineering Services
Engineering Application & Design
Reverse Engineering Overview
In general, Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, component,
an electrical component, a software program, etc.) apart and analyzing its workings or geometry
in detail, usually with the intention to construct a new device, component or program that does
the same thing without actually copying anything from the original.
Reverse engineering is a often used by military, in order to copy other nations' technology, parts
of which have been obtained by intelligence operations. It was often used during the Second
World War and Cold War.
Reverse engineering software or hardware systems for the purposes of interoperability, for
example in order to support undocumented file formats or hardware peripherals, is mostly
believed to be legal, though patent owners often aggressively pursue their patents.
Coordinate-measuring machines (CMM) can be used to digitize a component and the
information can be utilized in computer-aided modeling. New and improved techniques in
reverse engineering include 3D laser scanning which, as the name implies, uses laser beams to
scan across the surface of components of any shape and display the results in real time.
Reverse Engineering Services
You can count on Creaform’s expertise in reverse engineering if you need to generate 3D CAD
models from existing objects, whether to determine the original design intent, to modernize
manufacturing processes or to design a new part to fit to a legacy part, for instance.
• Parametric 3D modeling in generic and native formats
• Surface reconstruction
• Hybrid reconstruction
• Reconstruction from 3D scanning data, probing, 2D drawings, sketches, etc.
• Design modification from actual objects
• Data preparation for digital simulation
• 3D modeling of objects, no matter their size
Equalize Offering services for Reverse Engineering Service, 3D white light scanning, scanner,
rapid prototyping model, reverse, mould making, 3D scanning, , CAD conversion services. We
are offering excellent range of Reverse Engineering Services for designing and development.
We can offer you with:

5. · 3D Laser Scanning and CMM Inspection
· Capture an object's original design intent in CAD
· 3D Scan to CAD conversion
• 3D Modelling for performance surfaces
• Redesigning of a product without manufacturing defects
• Manufacturing drawings for production/prototyping
Take advantage of the experience of Equalize's reverse engineering team to help you:
• Obtain CAD data that captures an object's original design intent
• Design a new part to fit to a legacy part
• Accurately model performance surfaces
• Update CAD models of your tooling to match shop-floor changes
• Redesign a part without manufacturing defects
• Modernize your manufacturing process
3D Laser Scanning Review
Quality and Inspection Process Knowledge
Quality and Inspection Services | 3D Laser Scanning Services
3D Laser Scanning Instruments
3D Laser Scanning Review, which is also known as 3D Digitizing, is a inspection / engineering
process, which by the use of specialized 3D laser equipment uses laser light to digitize a 3D
physical object.
The 3D laser equipment uses laser triangulation, which can produce a accurate digitizes object.
Laser triangulation is a stereoscopic method where the distance of the object calculated by a
directional light source and a video camera. A laser beam is deflected from a mirror onto the
object being scanned or digitized. The object surface scatters the light, which is then collected
by a video camera located at a known distance from the laser source. Using algebraic
equations, the object 3D coordinates (X,Y,Z) of the surface being scanned is calculated. Many
3D data points are collected and stored as a cloud of points which represent the scanned
object. By use of special software, the data or cloud of points are processed into a surface
representation of the object which has been 3D laser scanned.
• 3D Laser Scanning Limitations
• Laser Scanning Applications
• Reverse Engineering Method Using Advanced 3D Laser Scanner
.Service & Spares Reverse Engineering
Focused in customer needs, Ruhrpumpen now has the capability to develop reverse engineering, where
we expand our offering by not only serving and rerating our pumps. This program consists in developing
spare parts from discontinued pump models in order not to invest in a brand new pump just because
spare parts are no longer available.

6. Ruhrpumpen REAP (Reverse Engineering Aftermarket Parts) Division is a unique and highly
trained group that utilizes Faro Arms (Edge model) and always the latest Solid Modeling
softwares. The division consists of engineering and modeling experts who offer various levels of
expertise in the Reverse Engineering field. Our combined experience of 37 years in the pump /
Reverse Engineering field., is able to manage and offer:
• Casting projects ensuring quality with pattern inspections.
• First article casting inspections, and finish machining checks.
• On-site reverse engineering services during maintenance outages, so if needed, the part never
leaves the plant.
Ruhrpumpen field service engineers will mobilize immediately
to ensure your downtime is as short as possible. Available for
worldwide assignments, our senior engineers and field service
specialists will review your equipment failure and in special
occasions they can dispatch their expertise within 24 hours.
Experience includes:
About Field Service
• Cryogenic: From LOX / LIN pumps and turbines in Louisiana, USA and Nanjing,
China to Dense fluid Expanders in Saudi Arabia. Recognized worldwide as simply
the best commissioning support and field service period!
• Utility Power & CO-GEN – Raw water supply to high volume circulating cooling, to
HP vacuum condensate pumps.
• Oilfields – on site analysis and repair of offshore rig water firewater pumps
• Pulp & Paper – Shower pump failure? Not to worry, Ruhrpumpen will complete your
emergency overhaul on-site and under time
• Airline refueling – performance upgrading completed on-site
• Marine – for on-site repairs of firewater pumps
• Hydro power – Vertical turbine commissioning and repair
• Refinery & Pipeline – On site repair of multi-stage boosters
• Chemical – On site analysis, repair and rebuild of propylene transfer pumps
Portable 3D scanners: Handyscan 3D

7. The Handyscan 3D scanners stand out as the most accurate portable 3D scanners on the market
today.
Because we know that you are serious about your work, we have developed an extensive line of
handheld 3D scanners that will work wherever you need them to. Our scanners feature the
TRUaccuracy technology, that guarantees accuracy no matter the environment, part set-up or the
user’s level of experience. Thousands of units later, our 3D laser scanners are living up to their
reputation of reliability and versatility.
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REVscan EXAscan VIUscan MAXscan
REVscan
Looking for the most efficient way to reverse engineer and/or design? The REVscan will prove
to be a reliable tool that will help you get there.
EXAscan
The EXAscan offers increased accuracy and resolution. It is the most versatile 3D scanner on
the market for inspection and demanding reverse engineering.
MAXscan
The MAXscan is the obvious choice for 3D scanning of larger parts. It features the Handyscan
3D high-accuracy, enhanced with photogrammetry capabilities.
VIUscan
Need high-resolution 3D colour data and shape? The VIUscan will capture every detail and
deliver hyperrealistic results.