en.Wedoany.com Reported - China's Shining 3D Tianyuan applies high-precision 3D scanning technology throughout the entire lifecycle of the construction machinery industry—from R&D design, production and manufacturing, to operation, maintenance, and repair—helping enterprises achieve digital transformation, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement. This technology has been adopted by clients such as LiuGong, SANY Heavy Industry, and DEEN.
High-precision 3D scanning technology, with its accuracy, efficiency, portability, and ease of use, can solve measurement challenges for large workpieces and complex curved surfaces. In the R&D design phase, this technology significantly improves efficiency and reduces trial-and-error costs. For example, in reverse engineering and redesign, engineers scan physical objects to obtain 3D data for efficient improvements. Taking an excavator bucket as an example, the time for new product modeling was reduced from one week to one day. During the new product development and verification stage, importing 3D models of different components into CAD software for virtual assembly can identify assembly issues in advance. When LiuGong was updating an old product, due to the loss of design models, engineers used the Shining 3D Tianyuan FreeScan Omni scanner to perform a complete scan of the cab, obtained the data, and completed reverse modeling, overcoming the challenge of secondary design and development without drawings, directly shortening the design cycle by one month.
In the production and manufacturing phase, 3D scanning technology can be used for first article inspection, incoming material quality inspection, quality inspection of parts and finished products, and fixture calibration. For a reducer housing measuring 2.4 meters in length and weighing over 2 tons, traditional inspection takes 2 days, while using 3D scanning combined with software inspection takes only half an hour. In the welding production of forklift frames for UN Forklift, the Shining 3D Tianyuan FreeScan UE Pro multifunctional laser handheld 3D scanner enables full-size inspection, presenting the degree of deformation after welding, as well as the specific locations and amounts of deformation, through digital reports, helping to adjust processes and improve the finished product yield.
In the operation, maintenance, and repair phase, this technology can shorten repair cycles and reduce downtime losses. Scanning the worn areas of large coal mine fan blades, the repair process takes about 3 days, compared to at least one month for factory repair, improving efficiency by dozens of times.
In a mining machinery refurbishment project in Australia, a company refurbished a trommel screen weighing 15 tons. This trommel screen is used to separate crushed materials and is subjected to long-term high-intensity wear and impact, making it prone to structural deformation or surface wear. Traditional manual inspection is time-consuming and has limited coverage, making it difficult to accurately compare actual wear conditions with the original CAD model. The company used the dual scanning mode of the FreeScan Trak Nova to obtain overall data and detailed features separately, and compared the fused scan data with the original CAD model. Engineers could quickly identify deviations exceeding manufacturing tolerances, precisely locate areas requiring correction, significantly improving refurbishment efficiency, effectively extending the service life of mining machinery, and reducing equipment replacement and maintenance costs.
With over 20 years of experience in the industrial metrology field, Shining 3D Tianyuan provides digital solutions covering the entire lifecycle of R&D, production, and maintenance. As the trend towards intelligent upgrading of engineering equipment deepens, the company states that it will continue to update its 3D measurement hardware and software products, delve deeper into specific construction machinery scenarios, and empower the industry to improve quality and efficiency through digital inspection capabilities.
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