Assets monitoring and management device

Problem.

The Company has been dealing with the following issues:

• confirmation of the number of litres received from the Manufacturer was entered manually on the PZ print,
• after the route was completed, drivers delivered prints to the Purchase Department, who had to manually enter over 2,000 collections per day into the billing system,
• all errors arising in the process of typing and rewriting were verified manually at the end of the month,
• failure to detect the error resulted in a complaint from the Manufacturer and lack of confidence in the Plant,
• the employee reporting process was not fraud-resistant.

Solution.

• the IoT devices were installed and connected to the RS232 port of the computers supporting the pump
• the quantity and temperature of milk received was sent directly to the cloud after milk collection
• the value is published immediately in the Transportation Management System available in real-time to the Customer
• the values are also sent to the billing system

Process.

The cooperation started with a detailed audit of the equipment was carried out, which had transporters carrying out the process of milk collection,

• due to the diversity of the truck’s equipment, a set of different firmware has been prepared that supports various data formats sent via the RS232 port,
• parsers for transmitting information from devices to the Transportation Management System system and to an external billing system were prepared,
• algorithms recognizing adverse effects (driver errors, abuse) have been introduced.

Delivered value.

The company shared the following improvements after the implementation of our solutions:

• the process is fully automatic and does not require the participation of dairy workers,
  manually completed prints have been eliminated,
• one employee from the Purchase department who was able to enter receipts manually was moved,
• drivers’ work has been improved,
• fraud has been limited,
• reporting time has been limited.