Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited has been a leader in implementing bespoke solution across
processes at its plants. One of such initiatives was to enable immersive remote operations for
supervisory teams, keeping the interaction element intact at its Sanand plant in Gujarat, India.
The Colgate-Palmolive team collaborated with Artiligent to detail the use case and come up with
suitable solution considering the merits of ease of use, remote scalability, security, and safety. A
solution involving a Telepresence Robot emerged as an optimum fit for the requirements.

Colgate-Palmolive’s state-of-the-art Sanand factory was chosen for the pilot, as it is one of the
largest and highly tech-driven plants of Colgate-Palmolive in India. With careful considerations of
plant layout, assembly lines and overall process, Ohmnilab’s Supercam robot perfectly matched the
facility setting. Aditya Karnani, Site Leader- Factory Performance & Reliability was at the helm of the
initiative, right from planning, Info security requirements for a new product, to implementing the
solution in accordance with the company’s strict compliances.

Features and Advantages
Ohmni Supercam by OhmniLabs is a Telepresence Robot developed to achieve – “Be anywhere, from
anywhere with a suite of telepresence-enabled hardware and cloud-based software”

1. Remotely access the robot to have audio-visual-based process inspection and monitoring.
2. No human dependency to answer the call on Robot end – Auto Answer.
3. Lidar based obstacle avoidance.
4. Pan-tilt-zoom functions to focus on a particular area.
5. Highly secure AWS based cloud architecture.

“We at Colgate Palmolive are passionate about evaluating and adopting
disruptive Industry 4.0 technologies like IIoT, Robotics & AI under our
Smart factory initiatives. It is in fact a part of our values and principles
to promote a focused, digitised, empowering, entrepreneurship approach
at all levels. We encourage young technology companies to partner with
us to achieve our goals of operational excellence and maintaining superior
quality standards”.

Sarala Menon – Executive Vice President, Manufacturing and Product Supply Chain

“Telepresence robot deployment at the Sanand plant in Gujarat has been a critical step towards
attaining autonomy in terms of process inspection. It provides a 360-degree view of plant operation
for supervisors and leadership teams globally. Further, the robot is modular to add additional
sensors like IR, Air composition detection and speech integrations, planned as a roadmap.”

Aditya Karnani – Site Leader, Factory Performance & Reliability

“Artiligent resolves industrial challenges by providing tailor-made solutions -one size doesn’t fit all. The pandemic expedited the market demand on automation, IoT and robotics. These deployments need astute inputs from the factory managers with a roadmap to narrow down on the right
product” claims Harish Madye, CTO Artiligent.

The next mile…

Automation is to your time what compounding interest is to your money – Rory Vaden

Artiligent is working with Colgate Palmolive team to enable autonomous navigation of the robots,
facilitating, use cases like sample delivery to the quality department, scheduled artefact capture on
24×7 basis without human assistance and introduce more functional autonomy such as elevator
traversal.