In a production environment, efficiency and documentation go hand in hand. TimelapseLab supports Zignago Vetro S.p.A. by monitoring its construction site in Empoli, through a solution designed to follow the project from start to finish without interfering with the site’s operations.
The service is based on a device connected to the TimelapseLab cloud platform, which captures images at regular intervals and makes them available in the archive. The sequence built up over time makes it possible to go back to any moment of the works and to produce time-lapse content that condenses months of activity into a few minutes.
For those coordinating a project within an active industrial area, this kind of documentation is of immediate use: checking progress without taking time away from production, having dated visual evidence in the event of inspections or disputes, and sharing timely updates with suppliers and management. The archive thus becomes a working tool, not merely communication content.
The hollow glass sector works with plants that can hardly ever be stopped, and every intervention on the facilities has to fit around production schedules. Under these conditions planning matters more than speed, and constant visual verification makes it possible to anticipate deviations from the schedule rather than detect them after they have occurred. The same documentation is useful in dealings with suppliers and external contractors, where recollections of the various phases do not always match.
Visual documentation also supports the phases following handover. When a plant comes into operation, being able to compare its current state with images of its construction helps to identify the source of any anomalies and to plan maintenance work. Monitoring of the Zignago construction site in Empoli thus leaves an archive that remains useful well beyond the completion of the works, as a technical reference available to the departments involved.
The site monitoring of the Zignago construction site in Empoli documents the building process through periodic images and differs from the continuous recording typical of video surveillance. Industrial-grade hardware, cloud-based content management and automatic blurring of faces and number plates make up a service designed to coexist with the daily life of a production plant, while respecting the people who work there.
