Italy

My first visit this year brought me directly to the sunny hills of Brescia, Italy. It was a pleasant trip to meet our Italian partner Topotek (http://it.kubit-software.com/) again.
Besides enjoying the "Dolce Vita" we discussed a lot the current situation in Italy and also abroad. Giorgia, Matteo and I have been able to find an increasing interest in the 3D scanning technology in Europe and elsewhere. And so we are sure that the intense contact and collaboration with FARO (www.faro.com) will lead us to a busy and successful time when it comes to the kubit PointCloud software.
PhoToPlan and its selling strategy in Italy took us also almost 1 day to discuss. We all realized that architects, archaeologists and the community of historical preservation should have a great benefit out of the PhoToPlan results. These can be not only rectified images but also 3D line work within AutoCAD (www.autodesk.com).

Piping the cloud

kubit was asking their kubit-USA office in order to have the piping expert John Bunn joining me at the kubit booth during SPAR-EU 2010 in Amsterdam last week. John has more than 10 years experience in the piping industry and is the main consultant helping kubit to realize its PointCloud piping tool.
So for the first European SPAR conference, we were showcasing this amazing tool to convert laser scan data directly into intelligent pipes. This will be true not only for AutoCADs Plant 3D but also within Plant 4D, Cadworx, AutoPlant or others.
People were quite amazed about these new features and so the FARO user meeting was a great success as well! Besides a wide selections of partners, kubit was showing "Piping the point cloud" directly in AutoCAD Plant 3D. So watch out for the official launch of the new PointCloud version coming soon!

kubit-France

A quick trip earlier this week brought me together with Laurent Metzger, our partner in France. Laurent and I spoke about the ongoing business in France and discussed possible marketing strategies for kubit products in France. It turned out that there is a lot of potential interest but the customers are difficult to address. One strategy which is working quite well is the co-operation with FARO-France. So maybe Laurent will have more trips to train customers like JetAlu in Marocco (www.jetalu.com), who recently purchased a new FARO Photon scanner. So overall, we are very positive for 2011 but there is always some work to do!

Standards for digitization of archaeological heritage

After having not been on the road for a few weeks, I was travelling to Warsaw early this week. Kubit-Poland was attending the Conference on “Standards for digitization of archaeological heritage” (http://www.cyfrowaprzeszlosc.uksw.edu.pl/en). Besides a small stand in the lobby, Ewa was giving a nice presentation about the kubit software solutions. The audience of more than 100 people (professors and students) was quite impressed and so the stand was hardly occupied during the breaks. Unlikely the breaks have been quite a few and unpleasantly short. So for everybody who wants to know more about kubit-Poland and offered solutions may check pl.kubit-software.com.

Parallel to the conference I was able to speak with our partners in Poland about ongoing projects, current clients and the upcoming year 2011. And this upcoming year, will push the kubit business in Poland quite a lot. I am sure that we have met some of the new customers during that conference in Warsaw this week already!

Good bye Tokyo!

This was again a great time in Tokyo. Our partner Mirukuru (www.mirukuru.jp.co) gave me just a great time! But besides getting gripped by this great city, I also had interesting meetings here in Japan: The highlight of course was the kubit seminar I hosted on Tuesday. Some 15 people from different industries showed up and were listening to my explanation about TachyCAD, PhoToPlan 3D and PointCloud Pro. It was my pleasure to speak with Mr. Kaneko from Topcon (www.topcon.co.jp), Mr. Ohhashi from Nikon-Trimble (www.nikon-trimble.net) and Mr. Ikeda from Obayashi (www.obayashi.co.jp) who is already a kubit customer.
Today Yuki Fuhura and I went to see Mr. Sasaki and his team from Riegl-Japan as well as Mr. Tabuchi, Regional Sales Manager of FARO-Japan. Both companies agreed to heavily intense our already good relationship in the near future.
Tomorrow morning I am flying back home to see my lovely family again and to get ready for InterGEO 2010 (www.intergeo.de) ...

Surveying the Forbidden City

Isn't that great? Surveying in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China is one of my most outstanding jobs since I am travelling around the world. Surveying this temple was part of the presentation we gave to the responsible persons at the Forbidden City. Besides evaluating laser scanning data using kubits' PointCloud, the Forbidden City is keen to work with PhoToPlan, PhoToPlan 3D and TachyCAD as well. kubit software will help them to document and preserve their highly valuable buildings and temples.
I was in China to see the kubit partner Onrol (www.onrol.com) again. I discussed with Teng Liu about further strategies in marketing and technology. Both of us see a highly increased need for as-built documentation thus for kubit software. So we are all looking pleasantly forward into the upcoming months and years.

kubit-Netherlands

Visiting our partners from the Netherlands again brought some nice days in Amsterdam and surroundings. But it was not all about sightseeing but more a quite busy time to discuss further strategies with Hans Cornelisse and his team.
At the end, we came up with a few points how we can improve our partnership in the near future. This will help to serve our clients in the Netherlands as good as possible.