Cemex and sensmore have released a customer success story from the Cemex quarry in Rüdersdorf, Germany, they say showing how one of Europe’s historic raw material sites is moving step by step
toward the digital and automated quarry of the future.
For more than 770 years, limestone from Rüdersdorf has been extracted, processed, and turned into the materials that helped build Berlin and the surrounding region. The quarry has both surface and underground operations.
Cemex and sensmore began working together roughly three years ago with a clear ambition: bring advanced machine intelligence into the daily operating reality of one of Germany’s most important quarry sites.
Under the supervision of Thomas Weber, Head of the Quarry at Cemex in Rüdersdorf, the partnership started with sensmore Machine Assist, a smart collision warning system powered by novel 4D radar and AI technology. It then expanded into sensmore Site OS and sensmore Eye, bringing operational intelligence directly into Cemex Rüdersdorf’s daily quarry operations — from extraction analytics to live crusher levels and dumping spot visibility.
Step by step, Rüdersdorf moved from machine awareness to site intelligence. Now, Cemex and sensmore have also moved into autonomous production, beginning with underground. “Together with sensmore, we are making this quarry more digital and more automated. Now we have implemented our first automated process underground,” said Thomas Weber, Head of the Quarry at Cemex in Rüdersdorf.
At the centre of the implementation is an Aramine L140B LHD equipped with sensmore’s automation system. sensmore vertically integrates the machine into Cemex’s underground production environment – connecting machine behaviour with the conveyor belt, functional safety infrastructure, network infrastructure, operational interfaces, and the production process itself.
The Aramine L140B LHD equipped with sensmore automation system at Cemex Rüdersdorf
The automated LHD performs autonomous mucking cycles underground: driving, loading, hauling, and dumping material onto the conveyor system. “This is now part of our daily production,” said Christian Zinnecker, Coordinator Underground Operations at Cemex. “With the automated LHD, we can run an additional mucking cycle shift. That creates real operational value – and supports our broader goal of making underground work safer, more productive, and more digital.”
For Cemex, health and safety are central to the automation journey. The ambition is clear: zero accidents. sensmore’s functionally safe automation system helps turn that ambition into a real production process: taking over repetitive underground cycles in one of the quarry’s most demanding production areas, while giving the team stronger digital control and moving the site toward a safer, more automated operating model.
“Rüdersdorf is where industrial history and industrial future meet,” said Maximilian Rolf, CEO and Co-founder of sensmore. “Together with Cemex, we are turning one of Europe’s historic raw material sites into a proving ground for the next era of heavy industry: digital, automated, and vertically integrated raw material operations. We have moved step by step from machine assistance to site intelligence to autonomous production. That is how the raw material factories of the future are built.”
“We are excited to continue this journey with sensmore. This first automated process is only the beginning, and we see strong potential to bring more digitalisation and automation into the full quarry site,” said Thomas Weber.
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