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Industry solution / Cement and building materials
Cement and Building Materials Inventory Automation Solutions
Volivue provides silo weighing, non-contact radar level, and 3D LiDAR dome stockpile monitoring for cement kilns, grinding stations, ready-mix concrete plants, and building material producers — covering full-chain inventory visibility from raw material intake to finished goods dispatch.
Inventory management challenges in cement and building materials
Manual stock checks are risky and slow
Climbing, knocking, or estimating from delivery notes keeps inventory numbers perpetually behind actual production consumption, causing reactive replenishment and emergency line stoppages.
Multi-silo data is disconnected
Silo levels across lines, buildings, and plants are scattered across paper logs or isolated PLCs; dispatchers and buyers have no unified real-time view.
Dome and conical stockpile volumes are hard to calculate
Clinker domes and ore piles are irregular; a single point measurement cannot represent total volume, creating large ERP reconciliation errors.
Retrofit downtime is expensive
Operating cement silos cannot be emptied or cut; traditional top-mount instruments require production stops and height-work exposure.
Volivue solution architecture for cement and building materials
Patch-mount weighing system (preferred retrofit for legged silos)
No roof cutting required. Sensors clip to support legs; AI algorithms deliver real-time inventory weight and trend. Suitable for 2–12 legged powder silos.
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80GHz radar level system (sealed solid silos)
Narrow-beam microwave penetrates dust for non-contact level measurement in cement, fly ash, and limestone powder silos. 4-20mA / HART output for PLC and SCADA.
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3D LiDAR stockpile inventory system (dome and open yards)
Fixed scanners generate 3D point clouds of clinker domes and ore piles, automatically calculating volume and estimated mass. Data feeds ERP inventory records directly.
View cement dome stockpile scenario →Quantified benefits and risk reduction
Share silo drawings and material specifications with Volivue to receive a full solution architecture and quotation for your cement or building materials plant.
Real roofs, real legs, real yards.
Field installations across cement plants, batching stations, tank farms, and stockyards.
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