ArgentinaManufacturing2020 – ongoingTernium
Computer vision for distancing and mask compliance
Ternium activated 170 cameras to detect distancing and mask violations
Problem
Ternium needed to monitor COVID-19 precautions across industrial sites. Supervisors needed information they could act on quickly.
Approach
Its developers adapted existing industrial-safety video analytics to detect distances between people and mask use. Deployment began in Argentina and expanded to Mexico and Brazil. Detected violations generated photographs in the occupational-safety management system for supervisors to review.
Results
Takeaway
Ternium reused existing safety-camera capabilities for a new monitoring task. It did not report an effect on infection rates.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Goal
- Quality and risk
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Ternium described adapting its own video analytics for pandemic precautions. It reported 170 activated cameras and explained how alerts reached safety supervisors.
Full details are in the original sources.
