JP2802465B2 - Logistics monitoring system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a logistics monitoring system, and more particularly to, for example, industrial waste or medical waste, which is particularly suitable for collecting and disposing of highly hazardous and toxic substances which are important for management. The present invention relates to a logistics monitoring system capable of tracking management.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is widely known that, with the development of the economy and society, the distribution of goods is becoming increasingly complicated and increasing day by day.
Medical waste discharged from hospitals and medical institutions such as medical research laboratories is required to be strictly treated based on the Waste Management Law. These wastes are separated from general wastes, and further classified into the properties of the wastes (liquids, sharp substances, solids), stored in special containers, and sterilized by incineration, etc. in principle. .

The medical waste stored in the dedicated container is
In general, a distribution channel is generally used in which treatment such as incineration is performed from a medical institution to an intermediate company (collection and transportation company), and then from the intermediate company to a processing company.

The distribution management in this case is conventionally performed by a so-called copy slip. For example, in FIG. 3, when the waste Z is passed from the medical institution A to the intermediate trader B, a copy slip (a, b) , C), the name of the discharged medical institution, the name of the collecting company, the date of discharge, etc. are first written. Further, when passing the waste to the processing company C, the intermediate company B further writes predetermined items on the copy slip (b, c), removes the copy (b) of the intermediate business B, and collects the waste Z together with the written slip. To the processor C. Then, at the time when the waste Z is disposed of, the disposal company C writes predetermined items such as the incineration date in the remaining slip (c). That is, the flow of processing is confirmed by collating the copy (a) of the medical institution, the copy (b) of the intermediate company, and the copy (c) of the processing company using the copy slip.

[0005]

However, in such a distribution of goods by means of a copy slip, in other words, in a physical distribution monitoring system, an illegal slip operation is possible, and an intermediate contractor or a processing contractor can use a general landfill. In many cases, it is difficult to detect the illegality even if the waste is diverted to the waste disposal route or illegally dumped. In this way, if the waste is spilled to a general landfill or other waste disposal route, or if it is illegally dumped, medical waste contains infectious substances and the like, and it becomes a very serious social problem.

The present invention focuses on such problems in the conventional physical distribution management of articles, and includes a medical institution that discharges medical waste, an intermediate company that collects and transports the waste,
It is another object of the present invention to provide a distribution monitoring system capable of confirming that the waste has passed through a normal distribution route to a disposal company that disposes of the waste carried in from an intermediate company.

[0007] The present invention, in a medical institution side which dispose of waste, waste the medical institution has discharged itself may verify that it has been processed in the normal without being replaced Ri to the other waste It is an object to provide such a physical distribution monitoring system.

[0008]

A distribution monitoring system according to the present invention, which has been made to achieve the above-mentioned object, provides information on waste to be sent out at a sending-out side for sending out articles, that is, at a medical institution which discharges medical waste. First article information input means for inputting to the online terminal, and an intermediate company which receives the waste and distributes the waste to a processing company, sends the received information on the waste to the online terminal. Second input to the machine
The article information input means and the waste processing company that receives waste from the intermediate company and processes and processes the waste, sends the received processing and processing information on the waste to the online terminal. And a third item information input unit for inputting the first item information, and a matching check for confirming the matching between the item information input by the first item information input unit and the item information input by the third item information input unit. Means, when the consistency is confirmed by the consistency confirmation means, the specific article information inputted by the first article information input means and the particular article information inputted by the third article information input means, , And a comparison result obtained by the comparison means is output from an online terminal on the sending side of the article. Also, in this case, the second article information input means
Constituting the In-line terminal, as queries article information input by the first article information input means becomes impossible, also configure the third article information input means
In online terminals, the first and / or second
It is configured such that the inquiry of the article information input by the article information input means of the above is impossible.

[0009]

According to the distribution monitoring system described above, for example,
First article information input to the online terminal at the medical institution that discharges medical waste, and input to the online terminal at the processing company that processes and processes waste, etc. The consistency with the third article information is confirmed by the consistency confirming means. When the consistency between the first article information and the third article information is confirmed by the consistency confirming means, the first article information among the first article information input to the online terminal at the medical institution side. The specific article information is compared with the specific article information of the third article information input to the online terminal on the processing company side. This comparison result can be confirmed on the online terminal at the medical institution. Therefore, when the comparison result is normal (coincides), it is confirmed that the waste discharged by the medical institution without being replaced with other waste has been properly treated. You. in this case,
The article in the online terminal in a middleman, as inquiry of the article information entered in the medical institution side becomes impossible, and in the online terminal in a recycler, entered in the medical institution side and or intermediary Since it acts so as to make it impossible to refer to the information, it is impossible for an intermediate company or a processor to refer (inquire) specific article information (for example, the weight of the discharge container) on the online terminal. Therefore, when the waste is replaced, it becomes impossible for the intermediate company and / or the processing company to input the accurate data of the specific article information described above, and the fact of the replacement is discovered in the system, Unauthorized operation can be suppressed.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a medical waste distribution system will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
FIG. 1 shows an example of an online system diagram for explaining the system of the present invention. In the figure, reference numerals 1 and 2 denote on-line terminals, which are installed in a medical institution A such as a hospital or a medical laboratory. Reference numerals 3 and 4 are also online terminals, each of which is installed in, for example, an office of a middleman B such as a collection company. Furthermore, sign 5 and sign 6
Are similar on-line terminals, which are installed in, for example, an office of a processing company C for incineration or the like.

The terminals 1 to 6 are so-called personal computers, and the terminals 1 to 6 are connected to the modems 7 to 12 and the communication system so as to be online using a public communication line (telephone line). Network controllers (hereinafter, referred to as NCUs) 13 to 18 are respectively attached. The terminals 1 to 6 have keyboards 19 to 2 as input devices, respectively.
4 are connected.

Each of the NCUs 13 to 18 attached to the terminals 1 to 6 is connected to a telephone line network 25 to 27, respectively, and these telephone line networks 25 to 27 are transmitted through inter-network connection devices 28 to 30, respectively. It is connected to a switching network 31. The packet switching network 31 is connected to a line termination device (hereinafter referred to as DCE) 33 of a computer center 32, and a host computer 35 is provided with a packet assembling / disassembling device (hereinafter referred to as PAD).
) Is connected to the DCE 33 via the DCE 33.

In the above arrangement, the data inputted by the keyboards 19 to 24 connected to the terminals 1 to 6 are transmitted to the interconnection devices 28 to 30 through the telephone networks 25 to 27, respectively. Is done. The network connecting devices 28 to 30 are installed between the telephone line networks 25 to 27 and the packet switching network 31, respectively, decompose data from each of the telephone line networks 25 to 27 into packets, and To assemble data to be transmitted to the terminals 1 to 6 via the telephone networks 25 to 27, respectively.

Transmission control means between these network connecting devices 28 to 30 and terminals 1 to 6 is predetermined.
For example, data transmission from the terminal 1 to the packet switching network 31 is performed as follows. First, terminal 1 has an internal NCU.
13 is operated to perform a call (off-hook) operation. Next, the terminal 1 detects a dial tone transmitted from an exchange in the telephone line network 25, and when the dial tone is detected, a dial pulse corresponding to the number of the host computer 35 in the center 32 is transmitted. This allows PA
The incoming call packet is transferred to D34 via DCE33. When the PAD 34 returns the incoming call acceptance packet, a communication start signal is sent from the inter-network connection device 28 to the terminal 1, and data communication is started.

At the end of data communication, the NCU 13 in the terminal 1 restores the telephone line (on-hook). As a result, the disconnection instruction packet is transmitted to the PAD. The PAD 34 is transmitted by the disconnection instruction packet.
Sends a disconnection confirmation packet to the packet switching network 31. Reference numerals 36 and 37 in the figure are output forms created by printers in the terminals 1 and 2 installed on the medical institution A side. As mentioned above, medical institution A,
The intermediary company B and the processing company C can exchange data with the terminals 1 to 6 installed respectively.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a data file stored in a storage medium (not shown) of the host computer 35 disposed in the center 32. That is, a file number is assigned to each of the data files, and this file number becomes the ID of the container storing the waste. No. for each file number.
No. 1 to No. Up to n items are set. For example, when a container storing waste is delivered to the intermediate company B at the medical institution A, a label with a series of different file numbers is attached to each container. At the same time, the respective file numbers are called by the keyboard 19 of the terminal 1, and for each file number, for example, the name of the discharged medical institution in item 1, the name of the collector (intermediary company) in item 2, the date of discharge in item 3, and the discharge date in item 4 Inputs specific information, for example, the weight (Kg) of the discharge container. Also item 5
Is recorded with a code for identifying the type of information indicating what type of information is recorded in the item 4. For example, this code contains the number of the item to be compared later. That is, as described later, the weight of the container (Kg) is weighed immediately before the incinerator performs the incineration treatment, and a program is determined so that this information is stored in the item 10. Is recorded. (First article information input means)

The intermediate company B receives each container and transports it to the processing company C. At this time, based on the file number written on the label affixed to each container, for example, the respective file numbers are called out by the keyboard 21 of the terminal 3, and for each file number, for example, the collection date of the collection and transportation of the item 6 and the item 7 Data such as a property code is input to the incinerator name and item 8. These data are stored in the storage medium of the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (Second article information input means)

In this case, the information of each of the items 1 to 5 already input at the medical institution A cannot be referred to at the terminal 3 of the middleman B.

Further, the processing company C receiving the containers from the intermediate company incinerates the received containers. At this time, based on the file number written on the label affixed to each container, for example, the respective file numbers are called by the keyboard 23 of the terminal 5, and for each file number, for example, the incineration date is stored in item 9 and the container 10 is stored in item 10. Weight (kg), item 1
1. Input data such as incineration temperature. These data are also stored in the storage medium of the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (Third article information input means)

In this case, the information of each of the items 1 to 5 already input at the medical institution A and the information of each of the items 6 to 8 input at the intermediate company B cannot be inquired at the terminal 5 of the processing company C. It is made to become.

At least when data is input to each of the items 1 to 5 input at the medical institution A and each of the items 9 to 11 input at the processor C, the data is input by the first article information input means. The host computer 35 determines that the obtained article information matches the article information input by the third article information input means, and writes the flag “1” to the item n of the corresponding file. (Conformity check means)

When the flag "1" is written in the item n, the code of the item 5 is referred to. The code in this case is “10” as described above, and thus the data recorded in item 10 is compared with the data recorded in item 4. (Comparison means)

At this time, the form can output information such as individual distribution routes or processing conditions of the waste obtained from the intermediate company or the processing company. In this case,
The information may be output on a display screen without being output in a form.

The data recorded in the item 10 is
The weight (Kg) of the container weighed immediately before incineration by the processor C, and the data recorded in the item 4 is the weight (Kg) of the container weighed by the medical institution A. If the comparison result is within a predetermined range, for example, item n
A code "1" meaning "match" is recorded in "-1", and a code "0" meaning "mismatch" is recorded in the item n-1 when the comparison result exceeds a predetermined range. You.

Then, for example, the terminal 1 in the medical institution A
, The keyboard 19 is operated to set the flag “1”.
By inputting the command of the remote batch so that the file information in which is written is printed on the printer, the list of the wastes processed by the processing company C is recorded in the form 3.
6 will be output. (Output means)

When editing the form 36, the item n
By referring to the code of -1 and writing out the name of “match” or “mismatch” for each file number, whether the waste discharged by the medical institution has been replaced with another waste Can be determined. The information output to the form as described above can be output on a display screen.

In the above description of the embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to a physical distribution system for treating medical waste is described, but the present invention can be applied to monitoring of a general physical distribution system.

[0028]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the physical distribution monitoring system of the present invention, for example, on the delivery side of an article such as a medical institution that discharges medical waste, the information input to the online terminal is input. The first article information and the third article information input to the online terminal at the end user, such as a processing company that processes and processes waste, are matched and confirmed by the matching checking means, and When the consistency between the first article information and the third article information is confirmed by the consistency confirmation means, for example, a list regarding the corresponding waste is output from the online terminal on the sending side. As a result, it is possible to confirm on the sending side that the goods sent from the sending side have reliably passed to the final target, and to improve the accuracy of logistics management. . Further, since the specific information is compared by the comparing means and the result is also displayed, it can be determined whether or not the waste discharged by the medical institution has been replaced with another. In this case, in the line terminal in a middleman, as inquiry of the article information entered in the medical institution side becomes impossible, and in the online terminal in a recycler, the medical institution side and
Or because queries article information entered in intermediary acts to be impossible, intermediaries, in recycler, see specific product information (e.g. the weight of the discharge vessel) in-line terminal (query) I can't. Therefore, when the waste is replaced, it becomes impossible for the intermediate company and / or the processing company to input the accurate data of the specific article information described above, and the fact of the replacement is discovered in the system,
Unauthorized operations such as replacement of waste can be suppressed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an online configuration for realizing a distribution monitoring system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a file format diagram showing an example of a data file held by a host computer in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing a distribution management mode by a conventional slip processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-6 Terminal 7-12 Modem 13-18 Communication Network Controller (NCU) 19-24 Input Device (Keyboard) 25-27 Telephone Network 28-30 Network Connection Device 31 Packet Switching Network 32 Computer Center 33 Line Termination Equipment (DCE) 34 Packet Assembling and Disassembling Equipment (PAD) 35 Host Computer A Medical Institution B Intermediary Contractor C Processor Z Waste

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. On a sending side for sending out an article, first article information input means for inputting information on the article to be sent to an online terminal, receiving the article, and delivering the article to a processing company. A second article information input means for inputting the received information on the article to the online terminal on the intermediate trader side; and a processing trader for receiving the article from the intermediate trader and processing and processing the article. , A third article information input means for inputting received information on processing, processing, etc. relating to the article to an online terminal; article information input by the first article information input means; Matching checking means for checking the consistency with the article information input by the article information inputting means, and matching by the matching checking means. A comparison means for comparing the specific article information input by the first article information input means with the specific article information input by the third article information input means, Output means configured to output the obtained comparison result at an online terminal on the sending-out side of the article, and wherein the online terminal constituting the second article information input means includes: 1 article information input means
Online <br/> In in-terminal, the first and or the second article information so that query input article information becomes impossible, and constituting the third article information input means by
A physical distribution monitoring system characterized in that it is not possible to refer to the article information input by the report input means . 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the comparing means includes a data stored in a specific item in the data file input by the first article information input means and a specific item in the data file input by the third article information input means. 2. The physical distribution monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the physical distribution monitoring system compares the data stored in the logistics system with data stored in the logistics system.