JP6490256B1 - Rental equipment management device, rental equipment management method, program - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To provide a rental equipment management apparatus capable of managing rental equipment even when the names of the rental equipment are different.
An operation information storage unit stores operation information representing operation statuses of rental equipments to be managed in a management target area and common information allocated to each of the rental equipments; An equipment master information storage unit for storing equipment master information including equipment information allocated to each of rental equipment, and a request for referring to operation information and equipment information are referred to the equipment master information storage unit. And an acquisition unit that reads common information corresponding to the input equipment information and acquires operation information corresponding to the read common information from the operation information storage unit.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a rental equipment management device, a rental equipment management method, and a program.

At a construction site, a customer such as a construction company rents a machine used at the construction site from a rental company such as a rental company or a leasing company, and performs construction at the site using the machine. A management apparatus for managing such rental equipment has also been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Here, on the other hand, at a construction site, a construction company may consign a part of the work to another company. Therefore, at one construction site, many contractors are working together. In this case, the rented machine may be used by the contractor for the necessary contractor, and may be used by another contractor at the same construction site when the use of the contractor is finished.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2007-058809

  However, when a certain rental equipment is used by a plurality of vendors in the same site, it is necessary to control which vendor is using it. In this case, a person in charge of management of rental equipment takes charge of management at the construction site. Here, depending on the region and the type of business in charge, the rental equipment may have different names even if the same rental equipment is used, or a common name may be used separately from the official name. Then, when managing the rental equipment, even if the rental equipment management staff at the construction site is the same, even if the rental equipment is the same, they may be managed as another rental equipment because the names are different. In addition, when rental equipment is to be rented from the rental equipment manager, the vendor recognizes itself as the name described in the list, when using the rental equipment required by itself with reference to the rental equipment list etc. Because the names do not match, the necessary rental equipment may not be found. In this case, the rental equipment manager needs to receive an inquiry from the vendor and check whether the rental equipment with the inquired name is in the list, and the rental equipment can not be managed smoothly. There's a problem. Also, in this case, it is preferable for the vendor to manage rental equipment smoothly in that the procedure for borrowing can be performed easily.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object thereof is a rental equipment management apparatus capable of managing rental equipment even if the method of specifying the rental equipment differs depending on the vendor. , To provide rental equipment management method and program.

  In order to solve the problems described above, one aspect of the present invention stores operation information indicating the operation status of each of the rental equipments to be managed in the management target area and the common information assigned to each of the rental equipments. An equipment master information storage unit for storing equipment master information including the common information and the equipment information allocated to each of the rental equipment by the vendor, and a request for referring to the operation information and the equipment information An acquisition unit which reads common information corresponding to the input equipment information with reference to the equipment master information storage unit and acquires operation information corresponding to the read common information from the operation information storage unit; And.

  Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an operation information storage unit storing operation information indicating operation conditions of rental equipment to be managed in the management area and common information allocated to each of the rental equipment, A rental equipment management method in a rental equipment management apparatus, comprising: an equipment master information storage unit storing equipment master information including the common information and equipment information allocated by the trader to each of the rental equipment; When a reference request for operation information and equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to read common information corresponding to the input equipment information, and operation corresponding to the read common information It is a rental equipment management method which acquires information from the operation information storage part.

  Moreover, one aspect of the present invention is a program for operating a computer as the above-mentioned rental equipment management device, and is a program for functioning the above-mentioned computer as each part with which the rental equipment management device is provided.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to manage rental equipment even if the method of specifying the rental equipment differs depending on the vendor.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration of a rental equipment management system using a rental equipment management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of management information stored in an operation information storage unit 101. It is a figure which shows an example of the apparatus master information memorize | stored in the apparatus master information storage part. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the rental equipment management device 10. It is a figure which shows an example of the rental equipment stock information memorize | stored in a stock information storage part.

Hereinafter, a rental equipment management system using a rental equipment management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration of a rental equipment management system using a rental equipment management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The rental equipment management system 1 includes a rental equipment management apparatus 10, a terminal apparatus 20, a terminal apparatus 21, a management terminal 25, a rental equipment 30, an IC tag 31, and a network 40. The rental equipment management apparatus 10, a terminal apparatus 20 and the terminal device 21 are communicably connected via the network 40.

The rental equipment management device 10 communicates with the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21 via the network 40.
The rental equipment management apparatus 10 includes an operation information storage unit 101, an equipment master information storage unit 102, an acquisition unit 103, a reception unit 104, a transmission unit 105, and a control unit 106.
The operation information storage unit 101 stores operation information indicating the operation status of the rental equipment to be managed in the management area and common information assigned to each of the rental equipment. Further, the operation information storage unit 101 stores, for each common information, identification information for identifying an IC tag attached to each of the rental equipment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of management information stored in the operation information storage unit 101. As shown in FIG.
The management information is stored in association with common information, identification information, and operation information.
The common information is information specified by a manager who manages various conditions such as location and user at a construction site by renting rental equipment from a rental company, and using it for the construction company at the construction site The information is commonly used regardless of those vendors. Here, with regard to the name and classification of the rental equipment, even if the maker that manufactured the rental equipment and the rental equipment have the same model number, if the rental company is different, the rental equipment gives its own name and manages the rental. There is a case and it is not necessarily uniform. In addition, for rental equipment, a construction company in charge of construction at the construction site may be independently assigned. Therefore, the names differ depending on the rental company and the construction company even if the manufacturer and the rental equipment have the same model number. In addition, although rental equipment is classified and managed based on functions, dimensions, and the like, the method of classification may differ between the rental company and the construction company. Therefore, in this embodiment, the rental equipment is managed by attaching common common information regardless of the rental company or the construction company to the rental equipment having the same manufacturer and model number as the manufacturer of the rental equipment. Here, even if manufacturers and model numbers are different, the functions, usage, dimensions, standards, ratings, etc. are almost the same as rental equipment, and if there is no problem in management in each construction company, the same common information is set It is also possible.

Common information includes information on common name, major classification, middle classification, minor classification, fine classification, and loan fee.
The common name is the name of the rental equipment. For example, as a name of rental equipment, there are "high car 6m table crawler", "high car 4m swivel table crawler", and the like.
Major classification, medium classification, minor classification, and fine classification are information for classifying rental equipment. For example, information in which the large classification is further classified is middle classification, information in which the middle classification is further classified is small classification, and information in which the small classification is further classified is fine classification. However, classification according to rules other than this may be made to set major classification, medium classification, small classification, and fine classification, and it is classified into four stages of large classification, middle classification, small classification, and fine classification Although the case will be described, it may be three or less or five or more.
For example, the "high work vehicle 6 m table crawler" is set to "high work vehicle" as a large classification, "6 m" as a middle classification, "table" as a small classification, and "crawler" as a small classification.
The rental fee represents the fee for lending from a manager who manages rental equipment on site to a vendor on site. The fee may be a fee per lending time (for example, one day), a fee per lending, or the like.

  The identification information is information for individually identifying rental equipment, and here, identification information stored in the IC tag 31 is used. Since the IC tag 31 is provided for each of the rental equipment, the rental equipment can be individually identified by using the identification information of the IC tag 31.

The operation information is information representing the operation status of the rental equipment at the construction site. The operation information includes, for example, items of status, place of use, rental destination, scheduled use period, rental period, manufacturer, shipping date, and rental vendor purchase date.
The status is information representing the usage status of the rental equipment at the construction site, for example, the status when the administrator causes the construction contractor to use the rental equipment, and even if the scheduled use period has passed "Excess", which indicates the situation not returned to the site, "Loan available", which indicates that the rental equipment is under the administrator's condition and that it can be used, is under construction and is scheduled to be used. There are "during lending" to indicate, "maintenance" to indicate that maintenance is under way.

The place of use represents the place used by the contractor at the loan destination. For example, when the construction site is a multi-story building, information representing a floor being used or an area being used when a specific floor is divided into a plurality of areas can be used as a use place.
The lending destination is information for specifying the lending destination, and the name of the contractor of the lending destination, the name of the person in charge of the contractor, or the like can be used.
The scheduled use period represents the period when the manager plans to lend the rental equipment to the contractor.
The rental period represents a period in which the manager borrows from the rental company.
The manufacturer is the name of the manufacturer who manufactured the rental equipment.
The shipping date indicates the date on which the manufacturer shipped.
The rental vendor purchase date is the date on which the rental vendor purchased rental equipment shipped from the manufacturer.

Referring back to FIG.
The equipment master information storage unit 102 stores equipment master information including common information, in-situ equipment information allocated to each rental equipment by a trader, and trader identification information identifying the trader to which the equipment information is allocated.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the equipment master information stored in the equipment master information storage unit 102. As shown in FIG.
The equipment master information is information in which common information, on-site equipment information, rental trader equipment information, and trader identification information are associated. The correspondence between the common information and the on-site equipment information can be made by a person who recognizes the relationship between the common information and the on-site equipment information, and is, for example, a manager. Here, if there is a person in charge that recognizes the relationship between the common information and the on-site equipment information in the rental company or the construction company, the person in charge can do so. This association may be performed at a stage where the rental company rents the rental equipment by the manager, or may be performed at the stage where the rental equipment is carried into the construction site and the construction company is rented.

The common information is the same as the common information in FIG.
The on-site equipment information is information assigned by the vendor to each of the rental equipment. The on-site equipment information can be arbitrarily decided by the rental company, the construction company, and the like. The on-site equipment information is information including on-site name, major classification, middle classification, minor classification, and fine classification. The on-site equipment information may be any information that can be easily recognized by the trader, and the trader can set the trader's own information separately from the name, the major classification, the middle classification, the minor classification, and the fine classification in the common information. It is also possible to set at least one of the common information name, the major classification, the middle classification, the minor classification, and the fine classification as the same item.
The site name can be a name uniquely assigned by a rental company or a construction company. This on-site name can also use the same name as the common name. In this figure, while the common name is "high car 6m table crawler", the on-site name of the on-site equipment information is "one set of indoor high car 6m crawlers", and the name is common name and on-site name The correspondence relationship can be grasped by being associated with each other.
The large classification, the middle classification, the small classification, and the fine classification can be independently assigned by the rental company or the construction company, and may be a hierarchy different from the large classification, the middle classification, the small classification, and the fine classification of the common information. For example, when the large classification, the middle classification, the small classification, and the fine classification are set in the common information, only the large classification, the middle classification, and the small classification may be set in the on-site equipment information. Only the fine classification may be used. Also, the same classification may be used for the large classification, the middle classification, the small classification, and the fine classification. In this figure, the large classification in the common information is "high work vehicle", the middle classification is "6 m", the small classification is "table", and the small classification is "crawler", while the large in the on-site equipment information The classification is "○○ crawler", the middle classification is "4M", and the small classification and the fine classification are "none" and not set. In this manner, by associating the classification in the common information with the classification in the on-site equipment information, the rental company or the construction company can search for the rental equipment 30 based on the classification that can be recognized by itself. .

The rental trader equipment information is information allocated to each of the rental equipment by the rental trader. The rental trader equipment information is information that can be used when the rental trader lends the rental equipment to a manager who manages the rental equipment on site, and the rental trader can arbitrarily decide. The rental vendor equipment information is information including on-site name, major classification, middle classification, minor classification, and fine classification, and includes the same items as the on-site equipment information. Here, although the figure shows the case where the on-site equipment information and the rental trader equipment information are different, they may be integrated into one as the equipment information.
This rental agent equipment information may be any information that is easy for the rental agent to recognize, and the rental agent should be unique to the rental agent separately from the name, major classification, middle classification, minor classification, and fine classification in the common information. It can be set, and at least one of the common information name, the major classification, the middle classification, the minor classification, and the minor classification can be set to be the same.
The vendor identification information is identification information for identifying a vendor that has allocated the equipment information. Even if the common information is the same, if the on-site equipment information differs depending on the vendor, a record in which the on-site equipment information and the vendor identification information are associated with each other is generated. When the vendor uses the terminal device 20, the vendor identification information can also be used as information for identifying the vendor that uses the terminal apparatus 20.

Returning to FIG. 1, when the reference request for operation information and the equipment information are input, the acquisition unit 103 refers to the equipment master information storage unit 102, reads common information corresponding to the input equipment information, and reads the common information. The operation information corresponding to the output common information is acquired from the operation information storage unit 101. This reference request may be any request associated with the rental equipment 30 rental procedure, status confirmation, return procedure, and the like.
The receiving unit 104 receives identification information transmitted from a terminal apparatus that has read identification information from an IC tag attached to rental equipment. Also, the receiving unit 104 receives various information transmitted from the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21.

The first transmission unit 1051 refers to the operation information storage unit 101, identifies common information corresponding to the received identification information, and is equipment information corresponding to the identified common information, the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21. The device information corresponding to the vendor to be used is read out from the device master information storage unit 102, and the operation information is transmitted to the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21 together with the device information.
The second transmission unit 1052 receives the reference request and the equipment information from the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21, the operation information acquired by the acquisition unit 103, the equipment information of the reference request source, and the operation information. It transmits so that the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21 may be displayed.
Third transmitting unit 1053 receives the operation request acquired by acquiring unit 103, the common information and the operation information, in response to the reception of the reference request and the identification information from the management terminal used by the person in charge of rental equipment management. To be displayed on the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21.

  The control unit 106 controls each unit in the rental equipment management device 10. Further, the control unit 106 receives various requests transmitted from the terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21 through the receiving unit 104, executes processing according to the various requests, and outputs the execution result to the terminal device of the request source. To the transmission unit 105 via the transmission unit 105. In addition, when rental equipment is lent to one of the vendors, the control unit 106 calculates an amount to be charged to the lent vendor based on the rental fee corresponding to the lent rental equipment. It has a billing amount calculation function.

The terminal device 20 and the terminal device 21 are carried by a rental company who lends the rental equipment 30, a manager who manages the rental equipment at the construction site, and a company who takes charge of the construction at the construction site. The terminal device 20 includes an IC communication unit 201. When the user of the terminal device 20 brings the IC communication unit 201 close to the range in which the IC tag 31 can communicate with the IC tag 31, the IC communication unit 201 wirelessly communicates with the IC tag 31 and identifies the identification information stored in the IC tag 31. read out. The read identification information can be transmitted from the terminal device 20 to the rental equipment management device 10.
The terminal device 20 is provided with a touch panel, can display various information, and can receive an operation input of the user of the terminal device 20.
The terminal device 21 has the same function as the terminal device 20. Although two terminal devices 20 and 21 are illustrated in this figure, three or more terminal devices may be used in the rental equipment management system.

The management terminal 25 is a terminal device used by a manager who manages, at a construction site, rental equipment borrowed from a rental company, a user who uses the rental equipment and the location of the rental equipment. The manager may be a builder at the construction site or a manager commissioned by the builder.
The management terminal 25 can receive an operation input from the administrator, and can refer to and update the information stored in the operation information storage unit 101 based on the operation content. The stored information can be referenced or updated.
Further, the management terminal 25 includes an IC communication unit 251. The IC communication unit 251 reads out the identification information from the IC tag 31 which has approached within the predetermined distance. The management terminal 25 can transmit the read identification information to the rental equipment management apparatus 10.
The management terminal 25 can use a smartphone, a tablet or the like.

  The rental equipment 30 is a construction machine, equipment, equipment and the like used at the construction site, and is rented by a rental company to a manager who manages the rental equipment at the construction site. Although only one rental equipment 30 is shown in this figure, a plurality of rental equipments 30 exist. The rental equipment 30 may be, for example, a high-speed work vehicle, a generator or the like.

  The IC tag 31 stores in advance identification information for identifying itself. The IC tag 31 is attached to each of the rental equipment 30 one by one. The way of attachment is arbitrary, but for example, it is attached by being attached with an adhesive or being connected to the rental equipment 30 by a chain-like connector. The IC tag may be attached by the rental company or the administrator of the rental equipment after the rental equipment has been shipped from the manufacturer, or may be attached in advance before the manufacturing manufacturer ships the rental equipment. When the manufacturer attaches the IC tag to the rental equipment, it may be attached between the nameplate itself of the rental equipment or between the nameplate itself and the housing of the rental equipment. When the IC tag is attached to the rental equipment in advance at the manufacturer, the manufacturer may assign and set (write) common information.

  The network 40 is configured by the Internet, a LAN (local area network) or the like. The network 40 may be partially wireless.

Next, the operation of the rental equipment management apparatus 10 will be described using the flowchart of FIG.
Here, the case where the contractor performs a procedure for renting rental equipment from the terminal device 20 will be described.
The construction contractor inputs a search request by touching the menu of the search function from the touch panel of the terminal device 20 when renting rental equipment from the manager.
When the rental equipment management apparatus 10 receives a search request from the terminal device 20 (step S101), the rental equipment management apparatus 10 determines whether the search is a search using an on-site name (step S102). For example, after receiving a search request from the terminal device 20 and the menu for performing a search using the on-site name is selected by the construction company and input from the terminal device 20, the control unit 106 performs the search using the on-site name. It determines with it being (step S102-YES). Then, the control unit 106 performs a search based on the on-site name input from the terminal device 20 (step S103). For example, in the terminal device 20, a part of the site name (a part of the start character string, a part of the end of the character string, a part of the middle of the character string, etc.) or all is input. The control unit 106 refers to the equipment master information storage unit 102 based on the on-site name input in the terminal device 20, searches for the on-site name included in the on-site equipment information, and obtains a coincident on-site name. . Then, the control unit 106 refers to the equipment master information storage unit 102, and reads out the common name corresponding to the obtained on-site name (step S104). Here, all of the corresponding common information may be read out.

  When the common name is obtained, the control unit 106 reads the operation information corresponding to the obtained common name from the operation information storage unit 101 (step S105), and transmits the read operation information to the request source terminal device 20. (Step S106). Here, in the construction site, there may be a case where a plurality of rental equipment of the same common name is rented. In that case, the control unit 106 may transmit each piece of the operation information corresponding to the common name to the terminal device 20, or may transmit only the operation information having the status of “Lending available”. When the operation information is transmitted to the terminal device 20, the operation information is displayed on the display screen of the touch panel of the terminal device 20 together with the on-site name used in the search. When the operation information is transmitted from the rental equipment management apparatus 10, the in-site name is read out from the equipment master information storage unit 102 corresponding to the common information from which the operation information is retrieved and transmitted by the control unit 106. By being transmitted from the unit 105, the operation information may be displayed on the screen of the terminal device 20. Further, as for the on-site name, when the operation information is transmitted from the rental equipment management apparatus 10, the control unit 106 transmits, by the transmitting unit 105, an instruction to display the on-site name from which the operation information is retrieved. By doing this, the terminal device 20 may receive the instruction and display it on the screen of the terminal device 20 together with the operation information.

In the terminal device 20, when the on-site name whose status is "loose available" is touch input among the displayed operation information, and the use scheduled period and the loan request are touch input, the control unit 106 inputs For the operation information of the common name that is the common name corresponding to the on-site name that has been sent and is the transmission target of the operation information transmitted in step S106, the status is updated to "during lending", and the scheduled use period is The scheduled use period transmitted from the terminal device 20 is updated (step S108). Here, vendor identification information corresponding to the contractor who uses the terminal device 20 is assigned in advance to the terminal device 20, and the vendor location information of the terminal device 20 which is the sender of the lending request is used to Identify contractors of Here, the correspondence between the terminal identification information assigned to the terminal device 20 and the vendor identification information is stored in the storage area of the rental equipment management device 10, and based on this, the construction company using the terminal device 20 is It may be specified. Then, control unit 106 stores the trader identification information of the specified construction trader in the “rental destination” of the operation information.
Here, if the usage start date in the scheduled usage period is a date later than the date on which a request for lending is made, the status may be updated to be "pending on lending".
Then, the control unit 106 transmits, to the terminal device 20, information of "end of lending procedure" indicating that the lending procedure has ended normally (step S109). As a result, the display screen of the terminal device 20 is displayed together with the on-site name used in the search together with the message "Loan and reservation complete".

  On the other hand, in step S102, when the search is not the search using the on-site name (step S102-NO), it is determined whether the search is the search using the classification (step S110). For example, after receiving a search request from the terminal device 20 and the menu for performing a search using classification is selected by the contractor and input from the terminal device 20, the control unit 106 determines that the search is classification search. (Step S110-YES).

Then, the control unit 106 performs a search based on the classification input from the terminal device 20 (step S103). For example, when the terminal device 20 accesses the rental equipment management device 10 on the Web, the control unit 106 displays the screen on the Web based on the trader identification information corresponding to the contractor of the request source. The selected classification is displayed on the display screen of the terminal device 20 in a pull-down menu or the like for each of the large classification, the middle classification, the small classification, and the fine classification included in the on-site equipment information corresponding to the trader identification information May be acquired. When in-field equipment information is stored in the terminal device 20, information selected from the classification of each part of the stored in-field equipment information may be received from the terminal device 20.
The control unit 106 refers to the equipment master information storage unit 102 based on the classification (combination of large classification, middle classification, small classification, and fine classification) input in the terminal device 20, and the classification included in the on-site equipment information The classification (combination of large classification, middle classification, small classification, and fine classification) of common information corresponding to is searched (step S111) and specified (step S112). Then, the control unit 106 reads the operation information corresponding to the specified classification (common combination, middle classification, small classification, and subdivision combination) of the common information specified from the operation information storage unit 101, and the terminal device 20 of the request source. (Step S113). Then, the same processing as in step S107 and subsequent steps is performed.

  On the other hand, if the search is not a search using classification (step S110-NO), the control unit 106 determines that the search is a search using identification information, and performs a search using identification information (step S120). Here, when the rental equipment 30 that the construction company wants to use at the construction site is in a non-operating state, the IC tag 31 can be obtained by bringing the terminal device 20 closer to the IC tag 31 attached to the rental equipment 30. The operation information of the attached rental equipment 30 can be confirmed, and depending on the status, a rental request can be made. In this case, the operation information can be referred to without using the on-site name or classification.

When the control unit 106 receives the identification information read from the IC tag 31 by the terminal device 20, the control unit 106 performs a search based on the received identification information. The control unit 106 reads the operation information corresponding to the received identification information by referring to the operation information storage unit 101, and transmits the read operation information to the terminal apparatus 20 of the request source (step S121).
Here, the control unit 106 reads out common information corresponding to the received identification information with reference to the operation information storage unit 101, and is equipment information corresponding to the read common information, and the control unit 106 of the request source terminal device 20 The device information corresponding to the vendor identification information is read from the device master information storage unit 102, and the read device information (for example, an on-site name) is transmitted to the terminal device 20 together with the operation information. Here, by transmitting the equipment information together with the operation information, the site trader can confirm the equipment information displayed on the terminal device 20, whereby the IC tag 31 to which the terminal device 20 is brought close is attached. It is possible to confirm the name, classification and the like of what the rental equipment 30 is, and after the confirmation, it is possible to carry out procedures such as lending. Here, since the on-site name corresponding to the construction company is displayed on the screen, the name recognizable by the construction company can be displayed. Then, the same processing as in step S107 and subsequent steps is performed.

  Further, in the embodiment described above, the case where the operation information and the on-site equipment information are transmitted from the rental equipment management device 10 in response to the reference request from the terminal device 20 has been described, but the management terminal 25 manages rental equipment The operation information acquired by the acquisition unit 103 is transmitted to the management terminal 25 together with the common information in response to the reception of the operation input from the person in charge and the reception of the reference request and the identification information, and the screen of the management terminal 25 is received. It may be displayed on the screen. Thus, the manager can manage rental equipment based on the common information. Here, the input of the identification information may be acquired by reading out the identification information of the IC tag 31 attached to the rental equipment 30 by the IC communication unit provided in the management terminal 25. For example, the administrator carries the management terminal 25 and visits the construction site, reads the IC tag 31 of the rental equipment 30 placed in the state of rest, detention, suspension, etc. It is possible to confirm based on the common information whether the operating status is such.

  The manager can also search the rental equipment 30 using the management terminal 25 and using the classification included in the common information.

Further, in the embodiment described above, the control unit 106 of the rental equipment management apparatus 10 lends rental equipment to the vendor, and calculates the amount billed to the vendor of the rental destination when a predetermined billing date comes. When rental equipment is lent to one of the vendors, control unit 106 includes the rental fee corresponding to the lent rental equipment in the common information of operation information storage unit 101 or equipment master information storage unit 102. The amount of charge to be made is read out, and based on the read out rate, the billed amount is calculated for the above-mentioned lender. For example, the period actually used is determined based on the scheduled use period in the operation information, and the billing amount is calculated by multiplying the loan fee by the use period. Then, based on the calculated amount, the rental equipment manager makes a request to the vendor.
Here, in the embodiment described above, the case where the lending fee is a uniform fee is illustrated, but different lending fees may be set for each on-site vendor. This also makes it possible to apply discounted rates lower than usual to frequent lenders.

In the embodiment described above, the case where the operation status of the rental equipment existing in the site can be referred to by the terminal device 20 or the management terminal 25 has been described, but for the manager managing the rental equipment in the site The stock of the rental company that lends the rental equipment may be referred to from the terminal device 20 or the management terminal 25.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of rental equipment stock information stored in the stock information storage unit.
The stock information storage unit is provided in a terminal device of a rental company that lends rental equipment or an inventory management server of the company, and includes rental equipment that can be rented outside the management target area and an area where the rental equipment is located. Store rental equipment inventory information.
The rental equipment inventory information includes the names of information on rental equipment, major classification, medium classification, minor classification, fine classification, rental fee, items of quantity, and items of location as information of area. The items of the name, major category, medium category, minor category, fine category, and loan fee are the same as the information described above, but are set by the rental company. The item of quantity is the remaining quantity of rental equipment that can be rented, and is updated by the terminal device or the like of the rental company when the rental equipment is rented or when the rental equipment is returned.
The location is an area where rental equipment that can be rented is stored, and when lending is performed, it is transported from the area to the site.

When the acquisition unit 103 receives the request for confirmation of the stock status of the rental equipment outside the management target area and the equipment information, the acquisition unit 103 refers to the equipment master information storage unit 102 and common information corresponding to the inputted equipment information. The equipment information corresponding to the read common information, which is equipment information corresponding to the read common information, is read out from the equipment master information storage unit and equipment information of the rental agent who lends the rental equipment to the management target area from outside the management target area Rental equipment inventory information corresponding to the acquired equipment information is acquired from the inventory information storage unit. The transmitting unit 105 transmits the acquired rental equipment inventory information to the request source terminal device 20 (or the request source management device 25).
As a result, whether the contractor at the construction site or the manager of the rental equipment can rent the rental equipment from the rental contractor even if there is no desired rental equipment at the site, the rental contractor's It can be considered by checking the available inventory. Here, because it is possible to identify the location of the stock of the rental company, it is possible to select and rent rental equipment existing near the site of your own, and even if there is any transport period, even if it is far away It is also possible to make a loan request after considering whether it will be possible to borrow.
When the contractor at the construction site or the manager of the rental equipment wants to borrow from the stock of the rental contractor, it searches for the target rental equipment on the basis of the classification of the on-site equipment information set by itself, etc. Alternatively, by inputting a request for lending from the management terminal 25, it is possible to receive the rental equipment even if it is rental equipment outside the site. Here, when the vendor wants to borrow from the stock of the rental vendor, the vendor makes a rental request to the manager of the rental equipment, and then the manager of the rental equipment makes a rental request to the rental vendor It is preferable from the viewpoint of ease of management of rental equipment on site.
Further, when referring to the rental equipment stock information from the management terminal 25, the rental fee may be read and displayed on the screen of the management terminal 25. Thus, the manager of the rental equipment can rent the rental equipment after confirming the charge.
In the embodiment described above, the inventory information storage unit may be provided for each rental company when there are a plurality of rental companies.

According to the embodiment described above, management is performed in association with a name or classification that can be recognized by a trader and a name or classification that can be commonly used regardless of the trader.
Here, if the traders are different, these names and classifications may be different names and classifications depending on the traders. Moreover, even if it is the same supplier, when the area of a field differs, depending on the area, a name and a classification may differ. That is, even if the same contractor has a different name or classification between a worker who belongs to a department in charge of a construction site in the Tohoku area and a worker who belongs to a department in charge of a construction site in the Kansai area There is.

Then, even if management is performed using only uniform names and classifications for the same rental equipment, there may be cases where the correspondence between the names and classifications and the rental equipment can not be recognized depending on the vendor or the area in charge. In this case, although the rental equipment desired by the user is listed, it may be recognized that the desired rental equipment is not in the list because the name is different from the name recognized by the user. is there. Also, although the rental equipment desired by the user is listed, the classification assigned to the rental equipment is different from the classification recognized by the user, so the desired rental equipment is classified. Searching based on the list may not find it.
Even in such a case, according to the above-described embodiment, even if the on-site trader does not recognize the name or the classification given by the rental company, the operation information can be obtained using the name or the classification that can be recognized by itself. You can search for
This enables the field contractor to obtain operation information smoothly. The manager can manage rental equipment without receiving inquiries about names and classifications from on-site vendors, and can manage smoothly. The rental company can rent the rental equipment provided for itself as a target of rental, without considering the name or the name on the site.

  The functions of the rental equipment management apparatus 10 in the above-described embodiment may be realized by a computer. In that case, a program for realizing this function may be recorded in a computer readable recording medium, and the program recorded in the recording medium may be read and executed by a computer system. Here, the “computer system” includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices. The term "computer-readable recording medium" refers to a storage medium such as a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a portable medium such as a ROM or a CD-ROM, or a hard disk built in a computer system. Furthermore, “computer-readable recording medium” dynamically holds a program for a short time, like a communication line in the case of transmitting a program via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. It may also include one that holds a program for a certain period of time, such as volatile memory in a computer system that becomes a server or a client in that case. Further, the program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above, or may be realized in combination with the program already recorded in the computer system. It may be realized using a programmable logic device such as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array).

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and includes design and the like within the scope of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Rental equipment management system, 10 ... Rental equipment management apparatus, 20, 21 ... Terminal device 25 ... Management terminal, 30 ... Rental equipment, 31 ... IC tag 31, 201, 251 ... IC communication part, 101 ... Operation information storage part 102: equipment master information storage unit, 103: acquisition unit, 104: reception unit, 105: transmission unit, 106: control unit, 1051: first transmission unit, 1052: second transmission unit, 1053: third transmission unit

Claims (11)

An operation information storage unit storing operation information indicating operation conditions of the rental equipment to be managed in the management area and common information assigned to each of the rental equipment;
An equipment master information storage unit that stores equipment master information including the common information and equipment information allocated to each rental equipment by the trader and equipment information that is information that differs depending on the trader;
When the reference request for operation information and the equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to, and the common information corresponding to the inputted equipment information is the equipment information corresponding to the vendor of the reference request source. An acquisition unit for acquiring operation information corresponding to the read common information by reference and read out from the operation information storage unit;
Rental equipment management device having. The operation information storage unit is stored including identification information for identifying an IC tag attached to each of the rental equipment,
The rental equipment management device is
A receiving unit that receives identification information transmitted from a terminal apparatus that has read out identification information from an IC tag attached to the rental equipment;
It refers to the operation information storage unit, identifies common information corresponding to the received identification information, and is equipment information corresponding to the identified common information, the equipment information corresponding to a vendor who uses the terminal device The rental equipment management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a first transmission unit that reads out from the equipment master information storage unit and transmits the operation information to the terminal device together with the equipment information. Operation information indicating the operation status of each of the rental equipment to be managed in the management target area, common information assigned to each of the rental equipment, and identification information for identifying an IC tag attached to each of the rental equipment and the operation information storage unit for storing the door,
An equipment master information storage unit for storing equipment master information including the common information and equipment information allocated to each of rental equipment by a vendor;
When a reference request for operation information and equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to read common information corresponding to the input equipment information, and operation corresponding to the read common information An acquisition unit for acquiring information from the operation information storage unit ;
A receiving unit that receives identification information transmitted from a terminal apparatus that has read out identification information from an IC tag attached to the rental equipment;
It refers to the operation information storage unit, identifies common information corresponding to the received identification information, and is equipment information corresponding to the identified common information, the equipment information corresponding to a vendor who uses the terminal device A rental equipment management apparatus comprising: a first transmission unit which reads out from an equipment master information storage unit and transmits operation information to the terminal device together with the equipment information. An operation information storage unit storing operation information indicating operation conditions of the rental equipment to be managed in the management area and common information assigned to each of the rental equipment;
An equipment master information storage unit for storing equipment master information including the common information and equipment information allocated to each of rental equipment by a vendor;
When a reference request for operation information and equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to read common information corresponding to the input equipment information, and operation corresponding to the read common information An acquisition unit for acquiring information from the operation information storage unit;
A stock information storage unit storing rental equipment stock information including rental equipment that can be rented outside the management target area and an area where the rental equipment is located ;
Has a fourth transmitter ,
The acquisition unit
When the request for confirmation of the stock status of the rental equipment outside the management area and the equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to read out the common information corresponding to the inputted equipment information, Equipment information corresponding to the read common information and read out equipment information of a rental agent who lends the rental equipment to the management target area from outside the management target area from the equipment master information storage unit, The rental equipment stock information corresponding to the information is acquired from the stock information storage unit,
The fourth transmission unit is
That sends the acquired rental equipment inventory information to the requester,
Rental equipment management device. The equipment master information storage unit stores, together with the equipment information, trader identification information that identifies a trader that has allocated the equipment information,
The rental equipment management device is
In response to receiving the reference request and the equipment information from the terminal device, the operation information acquired by the acquisition unit is displayed on the terminal device together with the equipment information of the request source that made the reference request. The rental equipment management device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising: a second transmission unit configured to transmit data. The operation information acquired by the acquisition unit, the common information, and the operation information are transmitted to the management terminal in response to reception of the reference request and the identification information from the management terminal used by the person in charge of management of the rental equipment. The rental equipment management apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising: a third transmission unit configured to transmit the information to be displayed on the display unit. The operation information storage unit stores a rental fee for each of the rental equipment,
The rental equipment management device is
When rental equipment is lent to any of the vendors, a charge amount calculation unit that calculates an amount to be charged to the lent vendor based on the rental fee corresponding to the rented rental equipment. The rental equipment management device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, comprising: It has a stock information storage unit that stores rental equipment stock information including rental equipment that can be rented and an area where the rental equipment is located outside the management target area;
The acquisition unit
When the request for confirmation of the stock status of the rental equipment outside the management area and the equipment information are input, the equipment master information storage unit is referred to read out the common information corresponding to the inputted equipment information, Equipment information corresponding to the read common information and read out equipment information of a rental agent who lends the rental equipment to the management target area from outside the management target area from the equipment master information storage unit, The rental equipment stock information corresponding to the information is acquired from the stock information storage unit,
The rental equipment management device is
A fourth transmission unit that transmits the acquired rental equipment stock information to the request source;
The rental equipment management device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 and claims 5 to 7. The rental equipment management apparatus according to claim 2 or 3 , wherein the IC tag is attached in advance to the rental equipment by a manufacturer of the rental equipment to which the IC tag is attached. An operation information storage unit for storing operation information representing the operation status of each of the rental equipments to be managed in the management target area and the common information assigned to each of the rental equipments; A rental equipment management method in a rental equipment management apparatus, comprising: an equipment master information storage unit storing equipment master information including equipment information allocated to each equipment and equipment information which is information different depending on the trader,
When the acquisition unit receives the request for referring to the operation information and the equipment information, the acquisition unit refers to the equipment master information storage unit and copes with the common information corresponding to the inputted equipment information to the vendor of the reference request source. The rental equipment management method, referring to the equipment information to be read, and acquiring operation information corresponding to the read common information from the operation information storage unit.   A program for operating a computer as the rental equipment management device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the program for causing the computer to function as each unit included in the rental equipment management device. .

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