3d scanning in Port Talbot

Often, the non-critical ones: guards, covers, housings, brackets, handling fittings and non-load-bearing parts on plant and equipment. We scan the worn part, rebuild it in CAD, and reproduce it or supply files for metal. For Port Talbot's steel plant it keeps equipment running when a non-critical part fails and a spare is slow, so a machine is not down over a small fitting on a plant where downtime is very costly.

Yes, for non-critical parts. We scan an obsolete or worn component off ageing plant to 0.04 mm and rebuild it as CAD with no drawings. For a Port Talbot plant it keeps long-serving, specialist equipment working when a part is no longer supported or made, reading the design from the worn original, rather than replacing a major piece of otherwise sound plant over one unavailable component.

Structural, load-bearing and high-integrity plant parts, anything the plant's safety or integrity depends on, are made, tested and certified to the right standards, and we do not make those. We handle non-critical parts, gauges, templates and inspection. For a Port Talbot plant it means fast help with the non-critical side, and a clear line on what proper heavy engineering and certification must own on a plant of that scale.

Yes. We make gauges, templates and setting aids for checking or setting up a process or a piece of equipment, from CAD. For a Port Talbot plant it means a repeatable way to check or set something quickly on the floor, made to the specific need, rather than improvising, which helps a big continuous process run consistently and reduces time lost setting up or checking by hand.

Yes. Our scanners are portable, so a part, a machine interface or a piece of equipment can be captured on the plant where it sits, to reproduce a part or check a fit. For Port Talbot it means we work around equipment too large or fixed to move, capturing what we need in place, which matters on a plant where much of the machinery cannot be taken offline or shipped out easily.

Always. There is no minimum order, so a single non-critical part, gauge or template is a normal job. Send photos and rough dimensions, a drawing, or ask us to scan on site, and we will price it clearly, usually the same day, with a typical 3 to 5 working day turnaround once we have or have scanned it.

Tooling, fixtures and production parts digitised for quality control and replacement.