News
Feb 15, 2026
The March 2026 issue of Gekkan Gesuido, published Feb 15, 2026, ran a feature titled “Digital transformation in the sewer sector today.” It covers the work SUZUTECH and Recmill are doing together.
The article is titled “What 3D survey technology opens up: putting ‘No Entry’ and more advanced, less labor-intensive infrastructure management into practice.” The three authors are Masashi Suzuki (Co-Representative, SUZUTECH), Hirokazu Ito (ACE Solutions Sales Department, FARO Japan), and Yoshikazu Fujiwara (Representative Director, Recmill).
The article covers the inspection and maintenance of aging sewer pipelines, and how 3D laser scanning delivers both safety and accuracy. Conventional manual measurement forced a trade-off between the two. Bringing in FARO’s Orbis mobile laser scanner and Focus terrestrial laser scanner removes that trade-off. It features a project carried out as a “No Entry” survey, with no worker going inside the pipeline.
SUZUTECH handles data capture on site. Recmill processes and analyzes the point cloud data and builds digital twins from it. Working that way, the two companies are putting the data to use across a range of tasks: condition assessment of sewer networks, AI screening that narrows a wide area down to the locations worth inspecting first, and 3D asset registers linked to GIS.
We will keep working with SUZUTECH to widen what 3D data can do for the maintenance of public infrastructure.