A 3D scanner is a device that analyzes a real-world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its appearance (i.e. color). The collected data can then be used to construct digital three-dimensional models. 3D laser scanning developed during the last half of the 20th century in an attempt to accurately recreate the surfaces of various objects and places. The technology is especially helpful in fields of research and design. The first 3D scanning technology was created in the 1960s. The early scanners used lights, cameras and projectors to perform this task. Due to limitations of the equipment it often took a lot of time and effort to scan objects accurately. Collected 3D data is useful for a wide variety of applications. These devices are used extensively by the entertainment industry in the production of movies or virtual reality. Other common applications of this technology include industrial design, orthotics and prosthetics, reverse engineering and prototyping, quality control/inspection and documentation of cultural artifacts.

3D Laser Scanning is a non-contact, non-destructive technology that digitally captures the shape of physical objects using a line of laser light. 3D laser scanners create "point clouds" of data from the surface of an object. In other words, 3D laser scanning is a way to capture a physical object's exact size and shape into the computer world as a digital 3-dimensional representation. There are many of technologies that we can get the required digitization of objects, buildings or natural scenery. It is just few examples what we can do to scan.

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This paper is oriented to 3D scanning as one of the most important sectors of digitization of modern digital enterprises to create 3D digital models. The result of this technology are digital models that are characterized by being highly accurate compared to reality. Today, 3D scanner developers are constantly improving the scanning parameters of these scanners and working on optimizations to create scanners that are used not only in engineering or construction, but also in the medical process of creating 3D models of human body parts.

In the presented article, the initial phase is focused mainly on familiarization with the production focus of individual enterprises and their financial security, which provides a basis for the proposal of possible solutions to shortcomings. A more detailed study of production through simulation studies using Process Simulate software provides a more comprehensive view of production in the assessed enterprises, where the current course of production at workplaces is evaluated in detail, and suggestions are then offered to improve the revealed shortcomings. In the end, there is an assessment of the companies from the point of view of homogeneity, so that it is then possible to make an inter-industry comparison of the revealed errors and shortcomings, with the result of finding common recommendations for a wide industrial spectrum.