CEMEX, a supplier of products to the construction industry, will deploy Delair’s delair.ai platform at its 60 aggregate production sites in France, after the two companies announced a new three-year agreement. 

A new cloud platform that analyzes and leverages the data collected by UAS, satellites and other aerial methods, delair.ai will provide CEMEX with access to highly accurate, 3D topographic surveys, along with advanced analytics to calculate volumes of materials. This will result in a better forecast of production, improved operations and reduced operational costs.

“Production monitoring, inventory management, and the safety of our teams are the three key performance indicators of our production sites,” says Benjamin Lecendrier, director of Production and Joint-Ventures at CEMEX France Nord.

“Delair’s comprehensive platform for visual data collection and management will help us accelerate the digitalization of our activities, significantly improving all aspects of our operational efficiency.”

In an effort to streamline the process for unlocking the true potential of aerial surveying, Delair.ai will provide CEMEX with a “completely integrated and easy-to-use workflow” to manage, analyze and share data. Users will be able to visualize a site in 2D or 3D thanks to the platform’s intuitive features. Delair.ai also has the ability to provide orthophotography, slope maps, digital surface models and 3D models.

Thanks to integrated tools for calculating length, determining an area size, and calculating stockpile volumes, the process to make measurements is described as quick and simple. CEMEX will be able to better forecast its production and increase revenue as a result of more frequent updates of topographic data. CEMEX will also have more insight into planning of extraction and extension projects, measuring of stockpiles, managing entire site inventories, and optimizing haul roads, which contributes to standardize best practices and processes enterprise-wide.

With Delair.ai’s cloud-based approach, data storage and access are simplified, which makes it ideal for the CEMEX team to work together and archive data. The platform is scalable, so it can support the use of multiple UAS and data collection techniques.

There is no limit to the number of projects that can be stored and shared, so anyone who needs critical data across the enterprise can access it, whether that be surveyors, production department or financial services.

“Being able to share data seamlessly between the different departments of the company and our production sites, and with subcontractors, has been a determining factor in choosing Delair’s solution,” Lecendrier says.

“Our teams can collaborate from a single interface online, anywhere, anytime. The delair.ai platform is scaled to meet our evolving needs and can be easily deployed nationwide.”