Matterport Digital Twins for Manufacturing in Asheville, NC
Helping manufacturers achieve their goals of environmental sustainability, workplace efficiency, and employee safety.
We combine our 3D photographs and Matterport’s AI to turn your building into an accurate and realistic 3D model.
Matterport digital twins are virtual copies of bulidings that you can explore as if you are actually there, all from your screen.
Looks better and costs less.
Matterport’s AI, Cortex, replaces many labor-hours needed to hand-build a digital twin by automatically building a model from our 3D photographs. LiDAR scans ensures accurate dimensions, high resolution photographs provide realistic images, and AI reduces the cost by as much as 1000%.
Our Matterport digital twins can be made for as low as $0.07 per square foot and they look realistic.
Traditional digital twins are as expensive as $0.90 per square foot, take a long time to make, and use computer graphics, making them look unrealistic.
A digital twin benefits every manufacturer.
Protect Your Building
Maintenance
Recognize property and building decay.
In the future you will be able to compare the state of your building against your digital twin to identify otherwise unrecognizable building decay.
What are you currently doing to recognize building and property decay?
Insurance
Document every item in your building in case of property damage.
Ensure you don’t miss or overlook any item in an insurance claim. Easily provide proof to an insurance adjuster.
What are you currently using to support your insurance policy?
Make Work Easier
Improve facility planning.
Planning is easier with a 3D model compared to 2D plans. The measurement tool within our digital twins allow for accurate measuring as you work.
Improve Collaboration.
Employees can take advantage of the Notes tool to point out a specific item and either ask a question or articulate a point of interest to other collaborators within the digital twin.
Improve Meetings.
Immediately answer the questions that typically require walking the factory to answer.
Improve Marketing.
A fun, new, and engaging way for customers to experience your business.
Improve your guest experience.
Some visitors may prefer a virtual tour to a factory floor tour. They can avoid the safety training and PPE.
Improve contractor clarity.
Contractors with access to a digital twin of your building can provide quotes that are produced faster, are more accurate, and while asking less questions.
Save Money
Reduce wasteful labor-time.
Reduce the amount of factory floor tours when a virtual tour is an acceptable alternative.
Reduce production downtime.
New hires can become familiar with your factory before their first day, accelerating their training period and getting your factory back to full production faster.
Reduce travel costs.
Eliminate unnecessary trips to your factory and reduce your company’s, and your contractor’s, travel expenses.
Reduce injury risk.
Reducing factory tours and familiarizing new hires and visitors with your factory will reduce your chance of recordable injuries.
Reduce environmental impact.
Less travelers to your site means less emissions and less vehicle wear.
Have a new construction or renovation project? Learn how digital twins are making construction easier and cheaper!
What is the savings potential of a digital twin?
Just four of the many benefits of a digital twin provided an estimated savings of $141,680 for a manufacturer with 200 employees. See below how we figure this number.
All numbers used are cited at the bottom of the equation.
Reduced Production Downtime:
50 new employees per year X $44 pay X 8 hours X 10 days X 10% reduction X 5 years
$88,000
Reduced Guided Tour Labor Time:
50 new employees per year X .5 hr per tour X $44 pay X 100% reduction X 5 years
$5,500
Reduce Injury Risk
6.4 accidents per year X $13,200 average cost of workplace injury X 10% reduction X 5 years
$42,240
Reduce Travel Expenses:
12 guests a year X $990 per trip X 10% reduction X 5 years
$5,940
Total Savings: $141,680
The above math uses the example of a manufacturing facility with 200 employees. Pay is average pay plus 25% burden. We assume the percent of effectiveness for the digital twin. We assume it takes a new employee two weeks to be fully oriented. We assume the digital twin will have a shelf-life of five years before your factory changes or technology changes.
Sources for the numbers used:
BLS - Manufacturing
BLS - Work Injuries Resulting in Medical Attention
NSC - Work Injury Costs
itilite - Business Travel Costs
Simplified Safety - The Risks with New Employees
Exports Available For Purchase
We create everything you need to digitize your space and bring it online, including specific add-ons and extensions for your industry.
2D CAD files created from your digital twin’s 3D data.
CAD Files
A high-density point cloud of your building made from your digital twins data. The vendor-neutral .E57 file format can be imported into into 3D architecture, engineering, and design applications, including Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD.
E57 Files
3D Revit models and 2D CAD files created from your digital twin’s 3D data. BIM files are LOD 200.
BIM Files
The Matterpak is a set of .XYZ and .OBJ files generated from the collected 3D data that design and development provessionals can use to jumpstart projets.
MatterPak
TruePlan for Xactimate
TruePlan are SKX files that you can easily import into Xactimate. With these files you no longer have to measure and manually sketch losses.
Google Street View
Put your business on the map with Google Street View integration. Also integrates to Google Maps and Google Earth.
The Future of Digital Twins in Manufacturing
Digital twin technology and artificial intelligence are at the center of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things and will continue to evolve and improve how we manufacture in ways we could, and couldn’t have, predicted.
Digital Twins have already arrived for Manufacturing, they are an integral part to Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is the merging of physical equipment, digital data, and artificial intelligence. If you don’t have a digital twin of your factory yet you are already behind the trend and missing out on valuable savings and improvements. By 2023 30% of global manufacturer’s use a digital twin and by 2027 that number is expected to grow another 30% according to IoT Analytics. Manufacturer’s are using digital twins to control and monitor their factories, and improve their systems, all to successfully reduce their expenses.
Stay Informed: Track Building and Equipment Status Through Your Digital Twin
Recently, Matterport partnered with Amazon Web Services IoT TwinMaker Connector. This combination allows users to monitor and control their building directly inside of their digital twin. With a live-feed of your factories status you can get an update from anywhere, anytime.
A digital twin as a control and monitoring panel for your factory is as intuitive as can be. No training is necessary when your control panel looks exactly like your factory. It is so easy to understand that training newcomers will not even be necessary.
Genesis: AI That Changes Your Building’s Layout, Among Others, At The Click of a Button.
Matterport’s Genesis is a generative AI that aims to optimize interior design, space utilization, energy efficiency, safety, accessibility, and property marketing strategies. Basically, ask Genesis to change your digital twin and it will do so.