Tino Riedel

You are convinced of VR or have at least experienced the advantages of virtual reality in some form. Now do you want to know specifically what the practical application looks like? In the last article about VR, the application in factory planning was briefly discussed. This article will now go into the use of visTABLE®VR … Read more

When looking for 3D modeling of a 3D floor plan for a current project, you have already noticed that there are at least a handful of possibilities? This article will directly compare 5 different methods from a practical factory planning perspective. As you will see, all roads can lead to the goal. You will find … Read more

Have you ever read about or tried how 3D models can be automatically generated from photos? Photos have become a mass commodity through smartphones, created in all kinds of life situations. Couldn’t you then very easily capture equipment in a factory in 3D in this way? And what is the difference between photogrammetry and photo … Read more

In the last article on laser scanning, it was more focused on the state of the art and the result of a laser scan. The conclusion was that the actual recording of point clouds is already affordable even for smaller companies. However, the result of this process has only a small added value in the … Read more

In this article, I would like to take up the often-advertised issue ‘digitization by laser scanning’ for inventory survey of equipment and buildings and put it into the context of enterprise size and use cases in factory planning. This article is intended as the beginning of an article series about digitization in factory planning which … Read more

This article is a continuation of our previous discussion on “How to convince your management to use factory planning software”. Last time, we concentrated on responses to possible questioning of your software selection by management. Are you still short of arguments to justify the expenditure? If so, we would like to offer you a few … Read more

Introduction Do you know this from your private life? When it comes to larger expenditures, let’s take a fully automatic coffee machine as an example, there is usually no impulse purchase. Firstly, by buying this new, expensive item, you are more or less depriving yourself and others of financial flexibility. Second, this purchase may also … Read more