ML Tech and Leica Geosystems Ltd have been key partners in the fabrication industry for over 30 years, supplying hundreds of systems to fabrication companies worldwide for a variety of projects. This partnership joins the best measurement technologies for repeatable and precise measurement with highly efficient and flexible automet® software to deliver a field survey and fabrication system that eliminates raw material wastages, reworks and produces an effective audit trail through the process. As our technologies develop into the future we look forward to building on this partnership with automet® to deliver more highly efficient solutions to those companies yet to embrace this intuitive, first fit, lean fabrication process.

Aibel is an engineering company that plans, builds, upgrades and maintains platforms, vessels and production facilities in the oil and gas industry with several thousand employees and operations in several countries, including world-class fabrication yards. We have used automet® for about 14 years. There have been great benefits for us in time saving and high accuracy on the jobs. Also ML Tech has been a great team player and developed the software according to our needs. The surveyors in prefab workshop use automet® for piping and structure every day. We produce on average 150 pipe spools a week and use the reports for as-built documentation. For the future Aibel will continue to use automet® as main software within the Dimensional Survey Department.

Vinje Industri AS is a supplier of mechanical engineering services, industrial pipe work and steel structures. We use scanning and dimensional control on many of our projects and assist other companies with various surveying activities.  We have used automet® products for several years on many of our projects.  We are very satisfied with the accurate and reliable results that the automet® software provides. This software is able to turn a complicated dimensional survey into a one man task, saving countless man hours on every project. We highly recommend this system.

One of our main activities in Stavanger Mekaniske is building high precision pipe spools for the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry. Most of the pipe spools that we build are replacement spools for offshore platforms, when electronic measurement is a strict requirement from our clients. We have been using automet® in our workshop for 4 years. Electronic measurement is an integrated and important part of our everyday workflow. Our engineers use automet® also to assist the pipefitters with doing better fabrication drawings, when isometric fabrication drawings sometimes can be difficult to read. The immediate result from automet® is a big advantage for the efficiency in the workshop, especially when doing preweld measurements. Our engineers also use the automet® system for doing offshore surveys with high accuracy measurements of existing piping and structures.

SDL NOBEL has been providing support services to the oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan since 2002, including the fabrication and installation of structural steelwork, upgrades of offshore facilities, pipe work systems including high pressure flow lines, vessels, tanks and related packages. Since installing and using automet® software at our fabrication facility in Baku it has given SDL NOBEL the leading edge on our fabrication competitors within the region. The system is user friendly and easy to use on the shop floor when laser surveying fabricated pipe spools. The system allows a quick turn around on survey results which assists on allowing the business to meet our clients schedule. I would highly recommend this system as it has proved itself to be far more advanced than previous laser survey systems that SDL NOBEL have used in the past with an added advantage of cost reductions.

As the market leader of fabrication and general, mechanical and hydraulic engineering services in Ghana, Harlequin offers first-world support across a range of industries in West Africa. Historically HIG piping fabrication division has been outsourcing specialist companies to perform surveying on spool fabrications where precision measurement is required. Since being introduced to ML Tech we have purchased our own survey equipment and software with the intention of eliminating the need to outsource 3rd party surveyors for shop welding activities. The equipment is now being used for and during pipe spool fit-up for pre weld alignment checks and post weld final surveying. We have really benefited from this in the following areas: Cost Saving, Shop floor planning, Fit / check then weld out dramatically eliminating potential rework, quality assurance to our customer that their equipment has been manufactured in accordance with their specified tolerances. All in all great a service, user friendly software and good after sale support.

automet® provides the complete industrial measurement software package. Not only do we utilize the software for piping and vessel as-built surveys but we utilize automet® for new design pipe routing, replace in kind piping surveys, alignment verification, equipment movement monitoring and traditional civil layout surveys. The versatility and simplicity of the software is unique to the industrial measurement service industry.

Automet FAB is quick and accurate, providing early detection of non conformity. Welding Services saw the benefits of this software on the first project it was used on. Use of Leica robotic total stations allows single person operation of the software. With visual cues and intelligent software, removing the need for hand controllers, the operator has the freedom to perform measurements with speed and accuracy.