- Customer
- Mitsui Bussan
- Setting
- Supplier trucks at the Samut Prakan, Thailand factory
- Products
- Canvas, with Vailient Plates as a sensing input
- Question answered
- Where is each supplier truck now, and for how long has it been here?
A truck passes the gate and then disappears
A supplier truck checks in at the gate. After that, nobody has a reliable way to know where it is. How long has it been on site? Is it at its unloading bay, or has it stopped somewhere it should not?
The people on site were not the problem. The information was. Entry and exit were recorded, and everything in between lived in the heads of whoever happened to see the truck.
- Slow unloading. Drivers took longer than permitted, with downstream delays and no way to step in.
- Trucks in the wrong place. Vehicles stopped in unauthorised zones or rested without permission, blocking routes and wasting dock time.
- No last-known location. Nothing showed dwell time, or even whether a truck had already left.
One timeline for each truck
Cameras now cover the entry gate, the exit gate, the unloading bays and key points along the approved supplier route.
Vailient Plates reads each plate at every checkpoint: entry, route cameras, unloading bay and exit. Every read carries a time stamp and the camera location.
Canvas joins every read of the same plate, across all cameras, into one continuous truck timeline. It calculates time on site in real time and tracks where the truck was last seen.
When a truck stays too long
When a truck passes the approved dwell time, Canvas raises an alert. The alert carries the plate number, the time on site and the camera where the truck was last seen, so the right person knows where to go.
When the truck leaves
At the exit gate, Canvas closes the session and keeps the complete, time-stamped movement history for that visit.
What changed for the team
The team has real-time visibility of supplier trucks on site, automated alerts instead of someone having to notice, and a time-stamped movement history that supports supplier compliance reviews.
Results figures for this deployment are not yet published. They need Mitsui Bussan approval before they appear here.
