CAM-367
The slab has taken the wrong turnout
Afternoon shift on the dispatch roller table. A slab is moving along the table towards the bay doors at the far end. At the turnout, the transfer car has routed it to a different door from the one its identification plate calls for. An operator follows it from the control desk, the stack light on beside him. Three more watch from the walkways, two of them with tablets. Over on the left line there are coils with their own plates fitted.
Turn on IRIS Vision
AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- slab routed to the wrong bay
- transfer car at the turnout
- product identification plate
- destination bay door
- operator at the control desk
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 40 sTime since it took the turnout
- 4People in the frame
- 3Bay doors under watch
- 2Products misrouted this shift
- 16:12Time of the alert
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
a product takes a turnout other than the one its identification plate calls for
Then
- alert dispatch with the camera, the time and the picture of the plate
- save the video from the moment the product reached the turnout
- add the product to the shift’s misrouting report
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a slab or a coil goes into a bay that does not match its plate.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A product that goes into the wrong bay is not lost: it takes half a day to find, and meanwhile an order runs late. The alert arrives when the slab has just taken the turnout, still on the table, with the picture of the plate and the time. The dispatch supervisor decides whether to recover it there and then or let it run. And at the end of the shift there is a count of how many products went the wrong way, and at which point.
What people usually ask
How does the camera know which bay that slab was supposed to go to?
From the plate. IRIS reads the identification plate fitted to the product and compares it with the destination the plant has assigned. The camera does not invent the route: the route lives in the production system. What IRIS adds is seeing that the physical product went somewhere else, with the picture and the minute it happened. When the paperwork and the steel disagree, it flags it.
What if the plate is dirty, turned round or torn off?
Then it cannot be read, and IRIS says so. A product without a legible plate is recorded as exactly that, not as compliant. And that is already useful: if the same line produces unreadable plates every day, the problem is how they are fitted, and there is a dated, timed list to prove it. IRIS does not guess what it cannot see, and it should not.
Does this replace the production tracking system?
No. IRIS works alongside it. The production system knows the heat, the grade and the customer; the camera sees the real product, where it is and where it went. When the two disagree, that gap is what triggers. Without the picture, the gap turns up when the truck is being loaded, and by then nobody can fix it within the shift.
Other cameras
- 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
See it for yourself
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you do not see are the other screens, and there are many.
- The hour, as a grid
- You look where it's dark
- You jump to that minute
Next step
And who watches the cameras?
0 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.
Who watches the cameras of a whole city?
23 cases: 18 raise an alert when something happens and 5 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
There is a moment when you can still act.It is while it is happening, and it is short.
After that, all you can do is tell the story. IRIS speaks up at that moment — camera, time and images — and whoever is on call decides what to do with it.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.