Laser scanning in food industry

Kvejborg, a Danish partner of Laserscanning Europe, applies laser scanning as a measurement method in food industry.

Kvejborg is a Danish engineering company for the construction of tools and robot applications. Kvejborg already uses short-range scanners by the company Creaform for the measurement of tools and small components. The director Soren Kvejborg is a firm believer in the future of laser scanning and sees the application of this technology as an inherent part of the company.

For the first time, Kvejborg and Laserscanning Europe cooperated in a wind power project in which high, accurate short-range scanners and large-volumed scanners were been combined purposefully.

Laserscanning Europe could satisfy Kvejborg that even large-volume scanning can be very interesting for measurements as a basis for planning for engineering services in robot application.

Just a few weeks after the first thought about it, the first application was found. Kvejborg works as a design office for a leading manufacturer of robot applications and special machine construction in the packaging industry in Scandinavia.

The Scandinavian manufacturer of special facilities often faces the problem of implementing new machines and robots in existing facilities. Frequently, the facilities had been constructed by other manufacturers and there are no current plans available. Thus, enormous planning risks hide in every project.

Soren Kvejborg proposed to a client the use of laser scanning in one of the next projects. The task of the first pilot project was to measure two robot workstations of a packing station in a wholesale bakery.

Laser scanning is attractive to the measurement of production facilities, the pipe routing and the equipment in food industry, since the production is often carried out in several shifts. The mere measurement of the single robot cells in the packaging plant takes only 10 minutes per cell. This was very important because the stacking of packaging on pallets had been performed in an extremely short period of time by production workers. Then, the remaining scans outdoors of the cell could be carried out easily.

Thereby, the facility could be completely measured and recorded in the running production.

For the measurement under such difficult conditions, Kvejborg brang in a professional operator by Laserscanning Europe as support in this project.


By the professional employment, the scanning of the whole manufacturing plant could be realised without any disturances of the production process. By laser scanning, Kvejborg could provide a perfect measurement – without production disruptions in the Danish wholesale bakery – in four hours for the plant manufacturer. Unitl now, the measurement of the plant by use of a tape measure and a disto meter by the plant manufacturer has required much more time. A full success for all involved parties.


The software PointCab was employed during the further handling. PointCab automatically generates layouts and sections out of laser scanning data. By the software, the first layouts could be provided the following day. The specialist planner of the plant manufacturer was very surprised about the rapid supply of the survey results.

A huge advantage of PointCab is that the results can be used in many CAD systems. Kvejborg as an engineering service provider applies Solidworks; the plant manufacturer works with Autodesk Inventor. The processing of laser scanning data in the formof point clouds would have been unimaginable since these systems don’t support point clouds. Due to PointCab, all involved parties can now use the same basis for planning.




Soren Kvejborg was also wondering about the simple handling of the scale images by PointCab in Solidworks. In addition, there is the attention to detail of the results. It is particularly interesting that Solidworks includes an image processing of sorts. Thus, the user can adapt the visualisation of the measurement results to his needs.



Due to this successful project, the laser scanning technology has become an inherent part of Kvejborg’s range of services. For Kvejborg, laser scanning enables a better measurement and, thus, the best possinle basis fot the following planning services. Soren Kvejborg has an optimistic view of the future since he is one of the first users of this interesting method in Denmark and will, consequently, get enough orders.



About Kvejborg

Kvejborg is a Danish company in the north of Jutland. The company operates as a design office for machine tools and robot applications. Kvejborg offers laser scanning from small components to entire production facilities. Kvejborg’s customers include tool-making firms, food industry as well as wind power industry. Kvejborg is among others a long-standing partner for the construction of tools of the worldwide known HiFi system manufacturer Bang & Olufsen.

www.kvejborg.dk