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Drapetsona Terminal
Contact with
Hazardous Energy
Cut the risk, save lives: GREECE Cement
automation ends live work
Opportunity Results
Packing machine Minimizing the risk of
operators faced entanglement in moving
significant hazards when parts for the operator,
adjusting the bagging automating the cleaning
machine to shift from grey process to simplify the
to white cement bags, task, and digitalizing the
requiring them to work on PLC panel have resulted
the equipment while in in significantly improved Dimitrios Chanis
operation (life work). monitoring of the bagging CEO
machine operation.
Solution
A new PLC* and an
operator console allowed
to perform all adjustments
automatically at the press
of a button.
Operators now keep
a safe distance to all Dimitra Kasola
moving equipment and Head of H&S
are no longer exposed to
hazardous energies. *PLC: Programmable Logic Controller
Contact with
Hazardous Energy
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