What is AVEVA Point Cloud Manager?
Available on our secure cloud platform CONNECT, AVEVA Point Cloud Manager uses 3D point cloud data—captured via LiDAR or photogrammetry or other methods—to create an accessible, detailed, secure digital twin. Perfect for brownfield, greenfield and maintenance projects, it ensures alignment between physical and digital assets to enhance decision-making, reduce rework, and improve operational safety.
“AVEVA Unified Engineering [is] very good [in] combination with AVEVA Point Cloud Manager. Together, they provide the best view on our models.”
—Thomas Mairhofer, Director of Digital Engineering Applications, Wacker Chemie
Benefits
Shorten project timescales
Reduce site visits and hazard exposure and prevent site rework.
Improved information confidence
Visualize your facilities and take measurements from point cloud datasets from anywhere in the world.
Access for data stakeholders
Facilitate reliable access to as-is conditions for engineering and operations.
Features
Support the digital twin
Secure and trusted reality capture data can be shared between engineering and operations teams in the web browser or supported 3D design applications, ensuring everybody works from a single source of truth.
Intelligent point cloud with AI
AVEVA Point Cloud Manager, when deployed through CONNECT, includes intelligent AI tools that can automatically classify and identify industrial object types according to pre-trained models. This allows engineering design users to work more efficiently and allows for intelligent tagging of the point cloud for digital twin applications.
Data management
Handle an unlimited number of laser scans and access and visualize this data at scale. Data is stored in a managed storage environment for project use or for archiving. Tag locations, add document links, attach comments, and integrate with your digital twin or engineering design applications.
Easy, secure access for stakeholders
Manage data and make it accessible to stakeholders on the cloud using CONNECT, on-premise systems, or streamlined from CONNECT to your on-premise applications. Data can be imported from terrestrial, wearable or mobile devices in common industry formats. A SOC 2-compliant, secure and scalable reality capture data platform.
Visualization and integration
Seamlessly integrate as-is 3D scan data into the heart of the digital twin to provide invaluable context to operations and maintenance data. Improved navigation allows users to seamlessly transition between walkthroughs in the solid point cloud and panoramic 3D BubbleView rendering.
Automated processes and enhanced measurement utilities
Measure as-built pipes and structures using exceptional measurement tools for the process and engineering industries. Use 3D model overlay for hybrid visualization on design model and reality, and automatically hot spot tagged items in the point cloud.
Bruce Power achieved 30 % Cost savings
Bruce Power scanned 8 nuclear reactors and created 8.5TB of data in AVEVA Point Cloud Manager through CONNECT. They saved 30% from repeat walkdowns and field checks as well as 15% in execution from improved design and planning.
Vivix Glass reduced travel expenses by 50%
By choosing AVEVA Point Cloud Manager, Vivix Glass was able to cut its travel expenses by 50% and cut its carbon emissions.
BLOM improved the construction schedule by 25%
By choosing AVEVA Point Cloud Manager, BLOM was able to optimize its scanning process and cut installation times by 25% and bills of material by 35%.
How you can use AVEVA Point Cloud Manager
Improve sustainability
Achieve sustainability goals by reducing discretionary travel. Use the cloud-hosted data to remotely measure and visualize sites. Cloud hosting reduces carbon emissions when compared to on-premise deployments.
Brownfield, greenfield, and maintenance projects
Create a trustworthy digital twin handover for brownfield, greenfield, and maintenance projects. Efficient modification, turnaround, and retrofit planning allows teams to address high customer volume and optimize and reduce project schedules.
3D data management and integration
Compatible with AVEVA and third-party vendor products as well as various scan hardware and industry-standard exchange files and available on our secure cloud platform CONNECT. AVEVA Point Cloud Manager processes, stores and manages 3D point cloud data captured by any device and integrates this data into any design system for efficient decision-making, operational excellence, and seamless collaboration.
FAQs
There is no storage limit. AVEVA Point Cloud Manager is designed to scale with your project needs, supporting thousands of scans and terabytes of data.
Processing times can vary, but as an example, a 17 GB project typically takes around 30 minutes to process—from converted scans to a usable format.
AVEVA does not perform LiDAR scanning services. We’re proud to be vendor-agnostic, giving our customers the flexibility to work with any scanning provider that best suits their project needs.
