Manufacturing industries, such as steel plants, cement factories, mines, and most production plants, operate various types of yard equipment, mobile machines, and cranes. Many of these machines are powered by power lines, power rails, or trolley wire systems. For any kind of maintenance activity, it is a statutory safety requirement that the power lines are shorted and grounded.
Existing practices are man dependent and a person reaches to lines physically and applies chain on rails. The process is hazardous, time consuming and is failure prone.
In the mentioned process, shutdown time increases by 30% of overall duration.