To prepare the cement bags for transportation, every Ambuja plant makes use of a loading machine. As an automated device, the free swinging loading arm moves rapidly back and forth, requiring two people to handle it. While one operates the panel, the other stacks the bags. With a certain chance of misjudgement, the operation contained an element of risk. And any amount of risk was not acceptable to our team.

But with thousands of cement bags being processed daily, any change to the system couldn’t afford to slow it down.

A slowdown could result in a massive loss of supply. Our engineers took up the task, and rather than change the mechanism, they removed the risk involved.

By installing a sensor on the swinging loading arm itself, the system could detect anything in its path, and stop immediately. Eliminating the off chance that a person could come in harm’s way. Which goes to show that whenever there’s a person’s safety at stake, our people quickly swing into action.