CPT Group provides advanced technologies and integrated solutions for the tunneling and infrastructure industry, including tunnel boring machines, automated segment production plants, and digital data management platforms. Their Robofactory system uses robotics to automate precast tunnel segment manufacturing, achieving a 50% increase in daily output while reducing defects and workplace injuries. The company also offers software like KYP and Tunnel Track for digitizing construction site workflows and collecting real-time TBM data.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Tunnel construction projects face significant challenges in precast segment production, including labor-intensive workflows, high rates of workplace injuries, inconsistent product quality, and limited production capacity. Traditional manufacturing methods also lack digital integration, making it difficult to track production schedules, quality metrics, and logistics across the supply chain from precast plant to tunnel installation site.
Solution
CPT Group delivers a comprehensive portfolio of tunneling technologies, highlighted by the Robofactory, an automated production system for tunnel segments that integrates advanced robotics and precision engineering. The Robofactory automates tasks such as mold opening and closing, cleaning, and oiling, allowing robots and automated systems to collaborate with operators in a modernized working environment. This approach shifts workers from physically demanding tasks to supervision and control roles, significantly reducing injury risks while optimizing production workflows. The system is complemented by digital management software that monitors production schedules, product quality, component stock levels, and logistics from initial storage to tunnel installation, creating a fully integrated digital factory environment.
Target Audience
Primary customers are tunneling and infrastructure contractors, precast plant operators, and construction companies involved in large-scale tunnel boring machine projects requiring automated segment production and digital construction site management.
Features
- Robofactory automated precast plants featuring robotic mold handling, cleaning, and oiling systems that have been successfully implemented in Italy, the UK, and France
- Production data showing a 50% increase in daily output with substantial reduction in segment defects and workplace injuries
- KYP software platform for end-to-end data management from precast plant to TBM, digitizing tunnel construction site workflows
- Tunnel Track data management system that collects data directly from TBM PLCs for real-time tunnel boring monitoring
- Green Spacers, recycled-plastic spacers that replace traditional wooden spacers for stacking segments in storage yards
- Partner sales and after-sales support for CRCHI tunnel boring machines and New Dafang Heavy Industry multi-service vehicles and bridge construction equipment
- Turnkey prefabrication plants including moulds, automation, lifting devices, and steel structures for tunnel segments, railway sleepers, and slab tracks
- Production of single and double TBM cutters in customizable diameters with on-site refurbishment services via specialized containers