Industry · Manufacturing & industrial

Mapped while the lines kept running.

Scanning an active plant means working around moving equipment, heat, and shift schedules, not shutting the floor down for a photographer.

From the capture-program era, the standard here: safety perimeter first, scans timed to line and forklift movement.

A Tyre Building Machine on the production floor at the JK Tyre plant in Gwalior.
JK Tyre, GwaliorPro2
A Tyre Building Machine at the JK Tyre plant, Gwalior

Flagship project

JK Tyre — Gwalior & Chennai

Two tyre manufacturing plants, roughly five lakh sq ft each, documented for JK Tyre & Industries Ltd: Banmore, Madhya Pradesh, and Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The Chennai plant took sixteen days: raw material bays, Banbury mixers, tyre building machines, and the curing presses, all while production continued around the capture. A small temple on the Gwalior plant grounds was scanned too, almost as an afterthought.

Combined area10L+ sq ft
Chennai plant duration16 days
HardwarePro2

A third plant

Textile manufacturing, Bhiwandi.

A textile manufacturing facility in Bhiwandi is the third plant documented alongside the two JK Tyre sites. This is one of the strongest industries on this site for a clear reason: three substantial, complex industrial facilities, not one lucky project.

What "five lakh sq ft each" actually undersells

End to end, machine by machine.

The raw square footage on the JK Tyre plants doesn't really capture the actual scope of work. In curing specifically, standard scan spacing didn't apply. Every individual machine and its control panel needed its own capture point, for inventory tracking purposes, regardless of the Pro2's normal range. The same density applied across Banbury mixing, the tyre building machines, inspection, and the warehouse, all of it done in the actual heat and physical intensity of an active production floor, not a climate-controlled office.

Coverage ran truly end to end: from raw material loading at one side of the plant, through every stage of production, to the finished-goods end where trucks load tyres out to OEMs and distributors. That's the full chain, not a curated sample of the nicer-looking sections.

What that volume of work actually teaches about how a plant like this runs can't be learned from a course or a video. It's also not something that belongs on a public website. Put plainly: the sheer quantity and intensity of this work produced a level of practical, hands-on experience that's hard to come by any other way: the kind of thing another factory looking for a professional would want to know exists, without needing the specifics spelled out.

A real tour

Chennai Tyre Plant: gallery & common areas.

JK TyreChennai

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Gallery and common areas only. The production floor itself stays off this specific tour.

Matterport's own research on this industry is worth a look too: matterport.com/industries.

Before you ask

Manufacturing, specifically.

All FAQs
Can you scan a plant that's still in production?

Yes. That's most of what industrial work actually involves. Capture is scheduled around shift changes and safe zones rather than shutting anything down.

Is there a size limit?

No fixed limit. The two JK Tyre plants were roughly five lakh sq ft each; scope and timeline scale with the space.

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Tell us about the space, and we'll tell you what it'll take.

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Travel cost, anywhere in India₹0
Matterport capture rate₹1,50,000 / day · 500+ scan positions
Street View photo rate₹1,000 / photo
Typical turnaround2–3 weeks