Sensex Devta

  Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd (SIIL) is a leading producer of copper in India. SIIL pioneered the
    manufacturing of Continuous Cast Copper Rods in India, and established India’s largest Copper Smelting
    and Refining Plant for production of world class refined copper. Sterlite, a part of Vedanta Resources,
    a London listed metals and mining major with Aluminum, Copper and Zinc operations in UK, India and
    Australia.
    Sterlite —  Tuticorin has a major task in handling logistics for inbound and outbound material
    transportation. On an average in a day there  are approximately 800 to 1000 trucks, tankers entering and
    exiting the gates of Sterlite which itself estimates the size of fleet that needs to be handled.
    There are 2 departments who are directly responsible for making this happen. The logistics
    department and the Security department.
    Currently the weighbridge application is in place developed on VB6 and  Oracle but the process at
    logistics and security is done using excel spreadsheets and some process are handled manually.
    Hence the immediate requirement is to automate the logistics the security processes and integrate
    the same with the weighbridge system.

  The challenge  
     To control entire logistics of vehicles movement within the factory premises.
     To ensure movement of vehicles as per planned route depending on products to carry. 
     To ensure parking space availability at various point of halt in the workflow.
     To ensure the right material is loaded on to the right vehicle