Industrial Use of Mixed Reality in VRVis Projects

Industrial facilities are becoming increasingly complex, which profoundly affects their planning and operation. Architectural structures, infrastructure and machines are planned using CAD software, but, typically, many alterations are made during actual construction and installation. These alterations usually do not find their way back into the CAD models. In addition, there may be a large body of legacy structures pre-dating the introduction of CAD for planning as well as the need for frequent changes of the installations, for example, when a factory is adapted for the manufacturing of a new product. Planners would like to compare the “as-planned” to the “as-is” state of a facility and identify any critical deviations. They would also like to obtain a current model of the facility, which can be used for planning refurbishing or logistics procedures.