Enhancing safety in Warehousing & Logistics
We’re proud to be enhancing safety in our customer’s Warehousing & Logistics operations with digital twin technology.
This project focuses on a bespoke vehicle height detection solution designed to address our customer’s real operational risks and improve safety across their busy 24/7 logistics site.
Customer challenge:
Our customer operates 24/7 with constant vehicle movement, making it a high-risk environment where any overheight vehicles could:
- Strike overhead structures
- Enter restricted zones
- Cause damage
- Operational disruption
- Injury occurring
Our customer wanted a reliable, proactive solution to eliminate incidents before they happen.
Phase 1: Site Survey and Digital Twin creation:
To fully understand the environment, our customer’s dedicated Account Manager, Martyn Armstrong, first had several in-depth discussions with our customer, conducting a comprehensive site survey.
From this we leveraged Hexagon’s Accur8Vision technology and created a detailed digital twin of the site.
This digital twin will serve as a live interactive model of their real-world environment, allowing for real-time monitoring and alerting:
- Real-time height detection: Every passing vehicle is scanned and measured for height.
- Immediate alerting: The central dashboard receives live notifications of any over height detections.
- Incident prevention: Our system proactively prevents collisions with overhead infrastructure.
- Improved operational safety: Our customer’s staff are better equipped to manage vehicle flow safely and efficiently.
- Seamless integration: with our customer’s centralised monitoring dashboard
The digital twin integrates directly with the customer’s central monitoring dashboard. As vehicles move through their site, our system uses advanced imaging and height algorithms to assess their clearance.
If a vehicle is detected to exceed the allowed height threshold, our system triggers an immediate alert to ensure a rapid response, preventing access until the risk is mitigated.
Before moving onto phase 2:
Prior to beginning phase 2, which is where our engineering team, led by Martyn carry out the installation of the system, we can test, refine and validate the height detection system, entirely in a virtual environment.
This ensures the solution is accurate and ready before anything is installed!
When the solution is deployed, our customer will benefit from:
- Continuous scanning vehicles for height compliance in real time
- Instantly block access to overheight vehicles
- Significantly reduce the risk of collisions, damage and downtime
- Provide ongoing data to optimise site safety and operations.
This phased approach means by the time our engineers arrive on site to install, the solution will already be proven to work.
What’s next?
This project when complete will not only enhance site safety for our customer, but will also set the foundation for future smart monitoring applications within our customer’s operations.
By harnessing digital twin technology, we’re helping our customer to move towards improved safety and data-driven decision making.
Get in touch:
This project is just one of many where we’re supporting customers to actively address vehicle heights to prevent incidents.
If your organisation is looking to improve site safety, reduce risk or adopt smart warehouse solutions, get in touch with our team on 01274 869 099, or fill in the contact form below, we would love to discuss how a custom digital twin deployment could help.
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