A tug pushing a loaded barge across the water at night
Live volume, quality & load tracking

Unlock hidden value in your supply chain using real-time data and analytics

ShigenTech delivers supply chain transparency that drives measurable business results.

What we do

End-to-end visibility across
your supply chain

Every load measured and graded — barge, truck or railcar. Every movement tracked. Every stockpile counted.

Load optimization

LiDAR scans each load as it fills, so operators see true volume and live fill percentage instead of guessing — filling every barge, truck and railcar to spec and moving the same tonnage in fewer trips.

Load tracking

Follow every load — barge, truck or railcar — from origin to destination on one live map: position, cargo, fill state, ETA and wait time. See a delay building before it costs you.

Stockpile management

Turn yards into live inventory. Volumetric scanning gives tonnes on the ground, days of supply and blend composition — continuously, without shutting the yard down.

Aggregates & sandCement & clinkerCoal & petcokeGrainWood fibre & biomassSalt & fertilizerOres & minerals
Live quality · load SAMPLING
Moisture 11.4%
Bulk density 0.42 t/m³
Particle size distribution D50 · 18 mm
<5 5–10 10–20 20–30 30–45 45+
Streaming to the ShigenTech platform
Real-time quality

Not just how much —
how good

Volume tells you what a load holds. Quality tells you what it is worth. ShigenTech grades the material as it moves — inline sensors read moisture, particle size distribution and bulk density continuously, with no sampling crew and no lab delay, and stream every reading straight into the platform.

  • Continuous readings on every load, not a grab sample once a shipment
  • Quality tied to the exact load, location and timestamp it came from
  • Out-of-spec material flagged before it sails, not after it arrives
  • Settle, blend and price on measured quality — not an estimate

Moisture

Microwave and NIR sensing read moisture content in real time as material crosses the belt or fills the hold — the single biggest driver of disputed weight and downgraded loads.

Particle size distribution

Optical sizing profiles the full gradation — fines through oversize — so you can confirm spec, protect downstream processes and catch a screen failing upstream.

Bulk density

Continuous density lets weight and volume reconcile against each other — the cross-check that turns two independent measurements into one trusted figure at settlement.

The results

Measured, not estimated

Commodity supply chains still run on manual surveys and periodic counts. Replacing estimates with continuous measurement is where the value is — in what you settle on, and in how full every load leaves.

90,000 LiDAR returns per scan — true volume, measured to the hold floor
2–3% typical over-measurement when volume is surveyed by hand
93.0% typical fill achieved against a 96% target — headroom on every sailing
0 upfront hardware investment — sensors installed and maintained by ShigenTech
The partnership

No upfront hardware investment

Deploy the platform as a service — ShigenTech installs and maintains the sensors, and you pay only for what you use.

Nothing to buy

Deploy sensor and analytics technology without capital expenditure — installation and maintenance are fully covered by ShigenTech.

Scales with usage

Pay only for what you use. The subscription scales with throughput, so it is easy to expand as operations grow.

Your data stays yours

Enterprise-grade security, fully owned and accessible by your business. Data flows into the ShigenTech platform or into the systems you already run.

Turn supply chain data into measurable business value

Faster operations, lower costs and stronger supply chain relationships — with no upfront hardware investment.