The Korea Times
British American Tobacco (BAT) Korea Manufacturing, which operates the BAT Sacheon factory in South Gyeongsang Province, said Monday it has introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped smart forklifts and built an integrated safety system to prevent industrial accidents and strengthen on-site safety management. The system combines AI-based video recognition technology with ultra-wideband (UWB) location sensing to prevent forklift collision and entrapment accidents in the manufacturing environment. Cameras fitted with AI image recognition minimize blind spots and secure wider fields of vision, while the UWB solution precisely measures the distance between forklifts and pedestrians and triggers an immediate alert when a hazard is detected. The factory, which serves as a major manufacturing and export hub for BAT’s Asia-Pacific operations, also equipped its forklifts with line-beam projectors that visually mark the vehicle's travel radius and boundary lines on the floor, giving nearby workers an intuitive sense of safe distances in high-noise environments. BAT Sacheon factory said it
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