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Strategy & Roadmap

Site Autonomy Readiness & Opportunity Mapping

Identify 3–7 safe, high-ROI autonomy use cases for your industrial site in 3 weeks.

Timeline
3 Weeks to Value
Typical Engagement
$40k–$90k (fixed-fee diagnostic)
Focus Areas
Haul trucks, Yard trucks, Forklifts

Site Autonomy Readiness & Opportunity Mapping

Get a ranked list of autonomy opportunities for your site—with ROI, safety impact, and technical feasibility clearly laid out.

  • Identify 3–7 autonomy use cases that are actually safe and feasible
  • Quantify impact on safety, throughput, and cost per ton/move
  • Produce a 6–12 month autonomy roadmap your team can execute

Who this is for

Operations, engineering, and product leaders at:

  • Mining companies with mixed human and haul-truck fleets
  • Ports and intermodal yards with congestion and driver shortages
  • Large warehouses and yards with repetitive, low-speed vehicle flows

Operational context

This engagement focuses on:

  • Vehicle types – haul trucks, yard trucks, forklifts, tuggers, AGVs
  • Environments – fixed routes, constrained yards, and low-speed mixed-traffic zones
  • Autonomy scope – from driver-assist (collision avoidance, speed control) to supervised autonomy on fixed routes

Trigger phrases you might be saying

  • “We know autonomy is coming, but don’t know where to start.”
  • “We have safety incidents in the same zones over and over.”
  • “Vendors keep pitching full autonomy; we just need realistic, staged wins.”
  • “We can’t afford a moonshot program that never ships.”

Business outcomes

  • 3–7 autonomy use cases per site, ranked by safety impact, ROI, and complexity
  • 10–30% potential reduction in interventions per operating hour in target lanes
  • 5–15% potential improvement in throughput per vehicle in scoped routes
  • A 6–12 month execution roadmap with owners, dependencies, and quick wins

What we deliver

  • Site autonomy readiness scorecard (tech, process, safety, data)
  • Opportunity matrix (use cases × ROI × risk × complexity)
  • High-level autonomy architecture options (stack & integration view)
  • 6–12 month roadmap with pilot candidates, milestones, and KPIs

How it works

  1. Discover – site walk-throughs, log review, incident analysis, and stakeholder interviews
  2. Diagnose – map current constraints, data availability, and vehicle control interfaces
  3. Design – define use cases, safety guardrails, and roadmap options (good/better/best)

Timeline & effort

  • Duration: 3 weeks from kickoff
  • Client time: ~6–10 stakeholder hours across ops, safety, IT/OT, and product
  • Data: sample logs (telemetry, incidents, routes), site maps, and vehicle specs

Pricing bands

Fixed-fee: $40k–$90k, depending on:

  • Number of sites (typically 1–2 per engagement)
  • Number of vehicle classes and vendors
  • Depth of analysis (desktop study vs on-site sessions in multiple shifts)

Tech stack & integrations

Tool and vendor-agnostic. We routinely work with:

  • Vehicle and control vendors (drive-by-wire retrofits, ECUs, CAN/J1939)
  • Sensor platforms (LiDAR, radar, cameras, GNSS/RTK, IMUs)
  • Data platforms (cloud, on-prem, historian, log servers)
  • Existing autonomy pilots and vendor stacks (we can assess, not just replace)

Risks & safeguards

We explicitly design for:

  • Safety first – define no-regret safety layers and minimum viable guardrails
  • Gradual autonomy – staged path from assistive features to supervised autonomy
  • Operator trust – ensure human operators understand and can override the system
  • Vendor lock-in – architecture that allows plugging in different perception/planning stacks
  • Regulatory & insurer scrutiny – documentation and metrics that stand up to external review

Site examples

  • Open-pit mine (Americas) – identified 5 autonomy use cases across haul and water trucks; 2 near-term pilots with modeled 18–25% reduction in interventions per hour.
  • Container yard (EMEA) – mapped a phased plan from camera-only assist to supervised autonomy on two shuttle routes, with expected 12–20% productivity uplift.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need to have an autonomy team already?
No. Many clients are starting from scratch. We help you define minimal team roles and a realistic org model for the next 12–24 months.

Can you work alongside existing autonomy vendors?
Yes. We often assess current pilots, highlight gaps, and adjust the roadmap rather than restarting from zero.

Is this only for mines and ports?
No. The same method applies to large warehouses, yards, and industrial campuses—anywhere you have repetitive low-speed vehicle flows.

What if our data is messy or incomplete?
We start from whatever logs, telematics, and incident reports you do have, then define a lightweight data collection plan to close gaps.

Target KPIs

  • ↑Interventions per operating hour
  • ↑Safety incident rate
  • ↑Throughput per vehicle
  • ↑Unit operating cost
  • ↑Unplanned downtime

Deployed Environments

Open-pit minesPorts & container yardsLarge warehouses & yards

Ready to start?

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