JP2802463B2 - 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 intermediary 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, and the like are first written, and the medical institution A removes the copy (a), and the waste Z is passed to the intermediate trader B together with the filled-out slip. 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). In other words, the medical institution's copy of the copy slip (a),
The process flow is confirmed by comparing the copy (b) of the intermediate company and the copy (c) of the processing company.

[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.

[0006] The present invention focuses on such problems in the conventional goods distribution monitoring system, and includes medical institutions that discharge medical waste, intermediate companies that collect and transport the waste, and intermediate companies. It is an object of the present invention to provide a distribution monitoring system capable of confirming that a flow has been passed to a processing company that disposes of the carried-in waste.

[0007]

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, and the matching confirmation information obtained by the matching checking means is configured to be output at an online terminal at the sending side of the article, that is, at the medical institution side. In the online terminal constituting the second article information input means , the first article information input means is provided.
As modifications of the article information input by the step becomes impossible, also the in the third online <br/> in terminal constituting the article information input means, the first and or the second article information
It is configured such that the article information input by the information input means cannot be corrected.

[0008]

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 matching with the third article information is confirmed by the matching checking means. When the matching between the first article information and the third article information is confirmed by the matching confirming means, the matching confirmation information is output from an online terminal on the medical institution side. Therefore, it is possible for the medical institution to confirm that the waste discharged from the medical institution has reliably passed to the disposal company and has been disposed of. In this case, in the online terminal of the middleman, it is impossible to correct the first article information input on the medical institution side. Since it works so that the second article information input by the trader cannot be corrected, it is possible to eliminate the possibility that the data of the article information input on the upstream side on the downstream side of the physical distribution is falsified.

[0009]

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. 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 units 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 connecting 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 configuration, data input by the keyboards 19 to 24 connected to the terminals 1 to 6 are transmitted to the inter-network devices 28 to 30 via the telephone line 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 the network connecting devices 28 to 30 and the 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, data such as the name of the discharge medical institution in item 1, the name of the collector (intermediary trader) in item 2, and the discharge date in item 3 are input. . These data are stored in the storage medium of the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (First article information input means)

The intermediary 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, each file number is called by the keyboard 21 of the terminal 3, and for each file number, for example, item 4 is collected and consigned, and item 5 is Data such as a property code is input to the incinerator name and item 6. 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 3 already input at the medical institution A cannot be inquired at the terminal 3 of the middleman B, or cannot be corrected even if the inquiry is possible. It is made as follows.

Further, the processing company C receiving each container from the intermediate company incinerates each received container. At this time, based on the file number written on the label affixed to each container, for example, each file number is called by the keyboard 23 of the terminal 5, and for each file number, for example, the incineration date is assigned to item 7 and the weight is assigned to item 8 (Kg), input data such as incineration temperature in item 9. 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 3 already input at the medical institution A and the information of each of the items 4 to 6 input at the intermediate company B cannot be inquired at the terminal 5 of the processing company C. , Or it can be queried but cannot be modified.

When data is input to at least each of the items 1 to 3 input at the medical institution A and each of the items 7 to 9 input at the processor C, the data is input by the first article information input means. The host computer 35 determines that the obtained product information matches the product information input by the third product information input means, and writes the flag “1” to the item n of the corresponding file. (Conformity check means)

Therefore, 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 processed by the processor C is output as the form 36.

In this case, if an instruction is given to the printer to print file information in which data exists in items 1 to 3 and the flag “1” is not written in item n, the processing company C does not It is possible to confirm that there is a file being processed, that is, an unprocessed waste.

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 has been described.
It can be applied to monitoring of general distribution systems.

[0024]

As apparent from the above description, according to the physical distribution monitoring system of the present invention, the first terminal input to the online terminal at the sending side of an article such as a medical institution discharging medical waste. And the third article information input to the online terminal on the end-user side such as a processing company that processes and processes wastes is checked by the matching checking means, and When the matching between the first article information and the third article information is confirmed by the matching confirming means, the matching confirmation information is output as necessary from the online terminal on the sending side. Therefore, on the sending side, it can be confirmed that the article sent from the sending side has definitely passed to the final destination, and the accuracy of distribution management can be improved. Further in this case, in the line terminal in a middleman, so making it impossible to fix the first article information entered in the medical institution side, also in the line terminal in a recycler, healthcare
It works so that the second and / or middle trader cannot correct the input of the second article information, so that there is no possibility that the data of the article information input on the upstream side is altered on the downstream side of the physical distribution. it can. Therefore, it is possible to prevent falsification of the record of the distribution route by falsifying data on the upstream side on the downstream side of the distribution, and the like.
It is possible to eliminate a room for illegal entry such as a medical waste or the like flowing into a general landfill or other waste disposal route.

[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 (1)

(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 matching with the article information input by the article information inputting means. Verification function information, along with configured to be outputted on-line terminal in a delivery side of the article, the second article information input
In-line terminal constituting the power unit, so that the correction of the input article information by the first article information input means becomes impossible and the third article information input means
In the online terminals to be configured , the first and
Is a logistics monitoring system wherein the article information input by the second article information input means cannot be corrected.