Accelerating Automotive Paint Protection Film Innovation with SHINING 3D Scanners

Customer Overview: Digital Innovation in Automotive Paint Protection Film

The automotive industry is constantly evolving, with new vehicle models featuring more complex designs, aerodynamic body lines, and unique surface geometries. For paint protection film (PPF) manufacturers, accurately capturing these vehicle surfaces is essential to creating precisely fitted PPF kits.

PPF-Kits specializes in developing precut paint protection film solutions for automotive applications. By creating digital patterns based on accurate vehicle data, the company enables installers to apply PPF kits with improved efficiency and precision.

To meet the increasing demand for more vehicle models and faster product development, PPF-Kits integrated SHINING 3D professional 3D scanning solutions into its workflow. By using EinScan Rigil and FreeScan Trak Nova, the company has built a more efficient automotive 3D scanning process for collecting vehicle data and developing high-precision PPF patterns.

Inside PPF Kits

The Challenge: Improving Efficiency and Accuracy in Automotive PPF Development

Developing a paint protection film kit requires highly accurate measurements of a vehicle’s exterior surfaces. Every curve, edge, and detail must be captured precisely to ensure that the final PPF pattern fits the vehicle correctly.

Traditional methods of vehicle measurement often involved manual processes, such as applying tape or film to vehicle surfaces and tracing outlines. While effective for individual projects, these methods became increasingly challenging as PPF-Kits expanded its vehicle database.

The company needed a more advanced solution that could provide:

• Accurate 3D data for automotive surfaces

• Faster vehicle scanning and data collection

• Greater flexibility for scanning different vehicle parts

• A scalable workflow for developing more PPF patterns

To achieve the high level of precision while increasing productivity, PPF-Kits turned to 3D scanning technology.

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The Solution: Automotive 3D Scanning with SHINING 3D Technology

For PPF-Kits, SHINING 3D scanning solutions provide a complete workflow for different automotive scanning requirements:

• EinScan Rigil supports flexible, portable vehicle scanning for specific components and updates.

• FreeScan Trak Nova delivers high-efficiency scanning for large-scale automotive data collection.
  

By combining both solutions, PPF-Kits can efficiently capture vehicle geometry, update its database, and accelerate the development of custom-fit paint protection film products.

EinScan Rigil: Portable Vehicle Scanning for Fast and Accurate Data Collection

Automotive manufacturers frequently release facelift models or updated vehicle components. For PPF developers, quickly capturing these changes is essential to maintaining an up-to-date product database.

EinScan Rigil provides PPF-Kits with a flexible automotive 3D scanning solution for targeted scanning tasks.

“When there is a new car facelift coming out, and there are just smaller parts that are updated, like a trunk lid, rear bumper, or front bumper, then the Rigil is actually perfect.”

The team can quickly scan the required areas without needing a full vehicle scanning setup.

3D Scan with EinScan Rigil

FreeScan Trak Nova: Accelerating Large-Scale Vehicle Scanning Projects

As PPF-Kits continued expanding its vehicle database, improving scanning efficiency became a top priority. Capturing multiple vehicles every day required more than high accuracy—it demanded a workflow that minimized preparation time and maximized productivity.

FreeScan Trak Nova addressed this challenge with its optical tracking technology, eliminating the need to place adhesive markers directly on the vehicle surface. By removing this time-consuming preparation step, the team can begin scanning immediately and focus on collecting high-quality 3D data.

Especially with the tracking-based system, the Nova allows operators to have full freedom of motion while maintaining stable tracking, making it easier to capture complete vehicle surfaces efficiently.

The expanded scanning area also allows more data to be captured in each session, helping the team digitize vehicles faster without compromising accuracy.

"Of course it's better and faster. With the Nova, it allows us to scan multiple cars a day super fast."

3D Scan with FreeScan Trak Nova

Results: Building a More Efficient Digital Workflow for PPF Development

By implementing SHINING 3D’s automotive 3D scanning solutions, PPF-Kits has transformed its approach to vehicle data collection and paint protection film development.

The combination of EinScan Rigil and FreeScan Trak Nova provides:

• Increased PPF Development Efficiency: Digital vehicle scanning reduces reliance on manual measurement methods and enables faster creation of PPF patterns.

• Improved Automotive Data Accuracy: High-precision 3D scanning provides detailed vehicle geometry required for accurately fitted paint protection film.

• Greater Flexibility for Different Scanning Needs: EinScan Rigil supports quick component scanning and vehicle updates, while FreeScan Trak Nova enables efficient full-vehicle data collection.

• Scalable Vehicle Database Expansion: Faster scanning allows PPF-Kits to expand vehicle coverage and respond more efficiently to new automotive models.