CAM-376
Arms inside the shear, with the machine still live
Night shift on the cutting line. An operator has leaned over the table and pushed both arms in under the blade. Inside, the plate is still glowing. The mesh guard has been swung out and propped to one side, with the sign forbidding any work without lockout still hanging on it. The panel lights are on, and so is the stack light. Two colleagues are watching from outside. IRIS sees hands inside and a machine that still has power.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- operator with both arms inside the shear
- mesh guard swung open to one side
- cutting line with the plate still hot
- control panel with its lights on
- two colleagues watching from outside
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 18 sTime with hands inside
- 2 min 10 sTime with the guard open
- 3People in frame
- 2Plates on the table
- 23:41Time
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
somebody puts their hands in the shear with the guard open and the machine still energized
Then
- alert the line supervisor with the camera and the exact time
- save the video from the guard being opened until the hands come out
- time how long the hands were inside
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if anybody puts their hands in the shear with the guard open and the machine not locked out.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
This doesn’t turn up in a report: it turns up when somebody loses a hand. The maintenance manager knows lockout is written into the procedure; what he doesn’t know is how many times a month it gets skipped. With the camera he gets the alert while it’s happening, the video of the seconds before, and a count of how often the guard is opened without lockout. That turns the conversation into how the work is done, not who is to blame.
What people usually ask
Can IRIS stop the shear?
No. IRIS doesn’t act on the machine: that’s the job of the line’s own safety system and its interlocks. IRIS raises the alert while it’s happening, with the camera, the time and the video, so that a person can decide. It’s one more layer of watching, not a replacement for the guard.
How does the camera know the machine still has power?
From what’s visible: the panel lights on, the stack light lit and the guard open with no lock fitted. The camera reads visible signals. The real electrical state comes from the plant’s lockout system, and IRIS works alongside it: it contributes the image and the exact minute.
Does this end up as a sanction for the operator?
The camera doesn’t decide that. IRIS does not identify anybody: it sees an intervention without a guard, not a person with a name. What counts as an alert, what gets logged and what happens next is written by the plant. Usually it is used to change the procedure, which is where the real gain is.
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- CAM-360 · The slab has stopped on the mill, with the beacons on red
- CAM-361 · The ladle stream has missed and molten metal is running across the floor
- CAM-362 · Snow and closed drums in the basket, still hanging over the furnace
- CAM-363 · The basket has been loaded from four different bays
- CAM-364 · Somebody is walking the aisle while the full ladle is moving
- CAM-365 · A coil is passing right over a worker
A different case every time
We won’t just tell you. We’ll show you.
It’s a summary of the real screen: it plays by itself, step by step, and shows only the path of one case. The actual tool has far more than fits in here.
- You ask
- IRIS searches
- It shows you
Next step
Why did the line stop?
237 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
How many spaces are open right now?
15 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Sometimes you don’t need an alarm:you need a number.
How many people came in, and when. You draw a line over the image and the camera counts. People counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute — through NeuralPax. It’s a Spanish approval: it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification and we don’t present it as one. What crosses over is the method. The same line, in the same place, every day.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.