Does AI Lift Truck Driver Safety Apply to Both the Operator and Workers?

Can AI lift truck driver safety be a thing of the future? According to DesignNews, “New technologies such as AI can help US manufacturers cut costs, improve efficiencies, and remain competitive.” And… according to the article, manufacturers need it due to the higher cost of labor and materials. But let’s not forget one other aspect that the rest of the world ‘enjoys’: a much looser regulatory environment. As the U.S. does not want to be caught in the same supply chain situation as during the pandemic, we all know that onshoring or nearshoring is all the rage. But with labor shortages and the cost of doing business, what can be done to help manufacturers catch up? You got it. The one thing we’ve always been good at: technological innovations. With all of the big problems manufacturers need to work on, is utilizing technology for AI lift truck driver safety even on the docket?

AI Lift Truck Driver Safety

AI lift truck driver safety is the application and utilization of AI technology to solve a particular problem. The problem that has the potential to cost companies at minimum $180,000 for an injured worker from the initial to multiple years continues to plague organizations today. By using the AI technology on powered industrial vehicles (PIV) can help keep pedestrians as well as your products and facility safe from damage.

AI on Morale

AI lift truck driver safety is critical for facilities as it affects the morale of other workers. When a co-worker gets injured or even killed at work, it mentally affects the productivity of others. They don’t want the same thing to happen to them…even if the safety manager says they are safe, taken further precautions or implemented new rules. Trust is lost for a period of time or never gotten back… and productivity and efficiencies ultimately goes down. 

AI on a PIV can help resolve employee or worker morale. By having the workers ‘see’ and experience what a forklift safety system does for the lift truck operator, trust will begin to resume. That’s because they will see that there is a safe distance that needs to be maintained from a worker to the PIV and from an object to the PIV. The driver is immediately alerted when a person is within the defined unsafe space. Additionally, the driver will also experience what is within the defined space, meaning is it a person or is it an object. The AI, vision and machine learning technologies all contribute to the identification and warning to the operators. Concerns from workers will simply go down and trust can be built up again.

Mixing it Up

The beauty of a stand-alone system, meaning not tied to the manufacturer, means that if you have a mixed brand fleet such as Raymonds, Crowns, Jungheinrich and Lindes, with a SIERA.AI solution, you’re good to go. Better yet, none of the PIV’s in your fleet need to be brand new. If you have new or used PIV’s, the system will work all the same. This is critical as many brands have anywhere from eight to twenty four months lead time if you are purchasing new. What do you do with the fleet now? How can you extend the life of the existing fleet? A forklift safety system by SIERA.AI. 

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