Success Story: Cement Plant Clinker Auto-Loading Retrofit for Unattended, High-Throughput Loading
3D LiDAR point clouds and vehicle positioning automate the full clinker loading process and prevent spills
Project background
Dusty clinker dispatch needed unmanned loading with spill prevention across heterogeneous fleets.
- Tight accuracy targets
- Human error risk
- Safety and environmental pressure
Shiju Network truck volumetry stack
Non-contact scanning tracks empty/full profiles, estimating fill level and freeboard for interlocked spout control.
Implementation flow
- Arrival pose
- Panoramic bed state
- High-accuracy solve
- Historical replay
Optimization
- Pose compensation
- Multi-spout recipes
- Weighbridge integration
Summary
Cycles shortened, complaints dropped, and on-site exposure decreased—with room for fleet self-learning.