Floor Scanning Service
Know Your Floor Before You Commit
A data-driven assessment that reveals exactly what your facility floor looks like before your equipment arrives.
What Is the Floor Scanning Service?
When facilities invest in automated guided vehicles (AGVs), transporters , or air caster products, floor flatness isn’t always top of mind. Our Floor Scanning Service was created to solve that problem before it starts.
Using the Trimble X7, a professional-grade 3D laser scanner, we visit your facility, scan your entire travel path, and deliver a detailed report that maps exactly where your floor is within spec and where it isn’t.
The result: you know precisely what concrete work, if any, needs to happen before your automated system is installed.
How It Works
The process is straightforward and minimally disruptive to your operations. Here’s what to expect from start to finish.
What Your Report Includes
The deliverable goes well beyond a simple pass/fail assessment. Here’s what’s inside:
| Deliverable | What It Tells You |
|---|---|
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Color-Coded Floor Map |
A full plant-level heat map showing high and low elevation zones across your entire scanned area at a glance. |
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Travel Path Analysis |
Elevation data segmented along each individual AGV or transporter path, measured at five-foot intervals. |
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CAD Comparison |
A side-by-side comparison of your facility’s design drawings versus real-world measurements (when a DWG file is provided). |
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Out-of-Spec Callouts |
Every out-of-spec location clearly identified, with notes on severity and whether it falls within your planned travel paths. |
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Full 3D Plant Imagery |
The Trimble X7 captures a complete 3D image of your facility,not just the floor, providing a detailed visual reference for equipment layout. |
Why This Service Exists
This service was born from real-world experience. After delivering coil transport equipment to a facility where significant floor irregularities hadn’t been identified beforehand, it became clear that there needed to be a reliable way to assess floors before any commitment is made — on either side.
Floor problems that go undetected until after installation create costly delays, require rework, and put both the equipment and the facility relationship at risk. The Floor Scanning Service shifts that discovery to the right time: before the equipment ships.
For customers, it’s peace of mind. You’ll know exactly what your floor looks like, have a clear action plan if concrete work is needed, and move into the installation phase with confidence. For facilities considering changes to travel paths in the future, the data you receive remains valuable long after the initial project — any proposed path change can be evaluated against existing scan data before a single dollar is spent on concrete work.
No. We don’t require a full shutdown, but we do ask that activity in the scan area be kept to a minimum during the visit. The Trimble X7 captures everything in its field of view, so people, carts, or equipment left in the travel path can introduce stray data points. A period of reduced activity, such as a shift break or a scheduled downtime is ideal.
We request a DWG file of your facility. This allows us to accurately overlay your design drawings onto the scan data and pinpoint specific locations on your floor. If a DWG isn’t available, we can work with what you have, though the overlay accuracy may be reduced.
The on-site scan is typically completed in a single day (about four hours for a standard layout). After processing and analysis, the completed report is delivered.
We strongly recommend it for any automated vehicle installation and will often include it as a recommended step in project proposals. The scan protects your investment and helps ensure a smooth installation and it’s one of the most valuable steps you can take before committing to an automated system.
You’ll receive a clear report identifying every out-of-spec location. From there, you can work with a concrete contractor to grind, fill, or flatten the flagged areas before installation begins. In cases where out-of-spec areas fall outside the planned travel path, we’ll note whether those areas are likely to affect operations and provide our assessment.
