Automated Data Acquisition and Processing for Factory Layout Planning

Factory planning is an important tool for manufacturing companies to raise their efficiency and to maintain their competitiveness by changing market or customer requirements. A special challenge is the acquisition of layout data and the processing of this data in suitable planning tools. Current approaches still measure manually or have to transfer acquired data from laser scanners by hand into planning tools, which leads to a high effort and error proneness.This paper presents a holistic concept for automated and systematic data acquisition and processing for factory planning processes.