Reverse engineering | Petrochemical plant

Project
ProjectPetrochemical plant- reverse engineering
Client
ILBOC
Location
Spain, Murcia.
Sector
Oil&Gas
Service
Engineering | Digital transformation

Disciplines
Civil, mechanical, piping, facilities, electricity and I&C.
Software
Tekla, Revit, Acad, Caneco, Dialux, Robot, Cypecad.
Year
2018- 2019.
Duration
8 months
Quick fact
2019 CGCOIIand AIIRM Award for the best Industry 4.0 project: Smart-Factory ILBOC.

ILBOC the Iberian Lube Base Oils Company, S.A., was established in 2012 in its plant located in the Valley of Escombreras, Cartagena and was owned 30% by Repsol Petroleum and 70% by SK Lubricants for the production of cutting-edge lubricant bases (LBO) (group II and III). The company has relied on IDEA since 2014 for the development of multidisciplinary engineering works, digital transformation and outsourcing.

Digitization project in a lubricant plant using reverse engineering.

Successful completion of the digitisation project of the ILBOC S.A. plant in Valle de Escombreras, Cartagena, using reverse engineering techniques to obtain a point cloud of the facilities.

The work carried out stems from ILBOC’s commitment to using the plant’s digital model as a centre of operations for day-to-day activities in the maintenance and reliability departmentsmaking use of the advantages offered by the BIM methodology not only in the design and construction phases, but also in the operation and management of the facilities.

Objectives

To create a native and up-to-date plant model on which future investments can be modelled and absorbed.
To retain information from the plant’s old 3D model.
To include information on reliability and maintenance departments in the model.

The project workflow starts with the laser scanning of the plant, carried out by our colleagues at Dronica using Faro’s tools and the processing and unification of the scanned data in their point cloud registration software.

After that, it is exported to a universal point cloud exchange format, such as “E57”, to be processed for pipe and structural element recognition in the ClearEdge software.

The final As-Built modelling of the plant has been executed in the Bentley OpenPlant 3D modelling software, a platform in which all the data obtained from the previous stage is inserted and which is used as a support to achieve the most accurate virtual model of the plant possible.

Escaneado 3D, digitalización de entornos, modelado - IDEA Ingeniería

Distinctive project characteristics

This modelling project stands out for the requirement to include a huge amount of information in the model required by the maintenance and reliability personnel necessary to perform their day-to-day tasks, as well as data contained in the plant’s old Navisworks model.

To successfully overcome this challenge and improve the efficiency of the project, it was decided to develop proprietary automation tools to manage the project’s databases and mass input all this data into the 3D model using the OpenPlant SDK.

With all this updated information provided by the client, the plant has been modelled and verified using the initial point cloud by superimposing both 3D models, achieving all the project objectives successfully.

The quality of the work carried out for ILBOC S.A. was recognised when it was awarded, in 2019, with the dual award for best industrial engineering project by the CGCOII and the AIIRM.

IDEA is currently moving forwards with the development of our BIM Digital Twin product alongside ILBOC, which continues to place its trust in us for the digitisation of its industrial environment and is committed to the benefits that this new methodology can bring to its work ecosystem.

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