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Success story March 11, 2024

Success story: cement plant clinker auto-loading retrofit for unattended, high-throughput loading

End-to-end clinker loading automation and spill prevention with 3D LiDAR point clouds and vehicle positioning

Project background

Dusty clinker dispatch needed unmanned loading with spill prevention across heterogeneous fleets.

Clinker loading site
  1. Tight accuracy targets
  2. Human error risk
  3. Safety and environmental pressure

HEGANG YUNCHANG truck volumetry stack

Non-contact scanning tracks empty/full profiles, estimating fill level and freeboard for interlocked spout control.

Implementation flow

Truck bed point cloud heatmap
  1. Arrival pose
  2. Panoramic bed state
  3. High-accuracy solve
  4. Historical replay

Optimization

Yard fleet dispatch
  • Pose compensation
  • Multi-spout recipes
  • Weighbridge integration

Summary

Cycles shortened, complaints dropped, and on-site exposure decreased—with room for fleet self-learning.

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