JPH06166417A - Physical distribution monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a physical distribution monitoring system for confirming the flow from a medical organization which dumps medical waste and a transporting agent transporting the waste, to a disposal trader who dispose of the waste. CONSTITUTION:Information concerning waste is input in an on-line terminal 1 in the side of a medical organization A, which dumps medical waste, and the information is stored in a host computer 35. The information concerning the waste is also input in an on-line terminal 3 by an intermediary B, who transports the waste, and the information is stored in the host computer 35. The information on disposal of the waste is input by a disposal trader C, who incinerates and disposes of the waste by using an on-line terminal 5, and the information is stored in the host computer 35. When the waste disposed of by the disposal trader C matches with the information on waste by the medical organization A, each file in the host computer 35 is marked with flags, and a document 36 is output by the on-line terminal 1 in the side of the medical organization A. It is confirmed by the medical organization that the waste was surely handed over to the disposal trader and is eventually disposed of.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a physical distribution monitoring system, and more particularly, it is suitable for recovering and disposing of industrial waste, medical waste, etc., particularly, articles which are highly dangerous and toxic and which are important for management. The present invention relates to a physical distribution monitoring system capable of tracking management.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is widely known that the distribution of goods is becoming more complicated and increasing day by day with the development of economic society. Among them, industrial waste or
Medical waste discharged from medical institutions such as hospitals and medical laboratories is required to be strictly treated in accordance with the Waste Management Law. These wastes are separated from general wastes, and are classified according to the nature of the waste (liquid matter, sharp substance, solid matter) and stored in a special container, and in principle, sterilization such as incineration is performed. .

Medical waste stored in the dedicated container is
In general, a distribution route in which a medical institution first reaches an intermediary company (collection and transportation company) and then an incineration process is performed from the intermediate company to a disposal company is common.

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 delivered from the medical institution A to the intermediary B, a plurality of copy slips (a, b) are simultaneously printed. , C), the name of the discharging medical institution, the name of the collecting company, the discharging date, etc. are first written, and the medical institution A side removes the copy (a) and hands the waste Z together with the completed slip to the intermediate company B. Further, when the intermediate company B delivers the waste to the disposal company C, it further fills in the predetermined items on the copy slips (b and c), removes the copy (b) of the intermediate company B, and discards the waste Z together with the completed slips. To the disposal company C. Then, at the time when the waste Z is disposed, the disposal company C fills in the predetermined items such as the incineration date and the like on the remaining slip (C). That is, the processing flow is confirmed by collating the copy (a) on the medical institution side, the copy (b) on the intermediate company side, and the copy (c) on the disposal company side by the copy slip.

[0005]

However, in such distribution of goods using copy slips, in other words, in a physical distribution monitoring system, it is possible to operate an illegal slip, and an intermediary or a disposer can generally use landfills. It is often difficult to detect the illegality even if it is dumped into the garbage disposal route or illegally dumped. In this way, when the waste is laterally dumped into a general waste disposal route such as landfill or is illegally dumped, medical waste also contains infectious substances, which is a very serious social problem.

[0006] The present invention focuses on such problems in the physical distribution management of such conventional articles. It is a medical institution that discharges medical waste, an intermediate company that collects and transports this waste,
Another object of the present invention is to provide a distribution monitoring system for articles that can be confirmed to have passed through a normal distribution route to a disposal company that disposes of waste that has been brought in from an intermediary company.

Further, the present invention provides a distribution monitoring system for goods, which enables a medical institution that has discharged the waste to grasp the distribution route or processing information of the waste obtained from an intermediate company or a disposal company. This is an issue.

[0008]

The distribution monitoring system of the present invention, which has been made to achieve the above object, provides information on waste to be sent out at a sending side for sending out an article, that is, at a medical institution for discharging medical waste. The first article information input means for inputting to the online terminal, and the intermediary company side for receiving the waste and further delivering the waste to the processing company, the online terminal receives the information on the received waste. Second input to the machine
In the article information inputting means and the waste processing company that receives waste from the intermediary company and processes and processes the waste, the online processing is performed on the received processing and processing information regarding the waste. Conformity confirmation for confirming the consistency between the third article information inputting means for inputting by the above, the article information inputted by the first article information inputting means, and the article information inputted by the third article information inputting means When the consistency is confirmed by the means and the matching confirmation means,
The information input by the second article information input means or the information input by the third article information input means, or the information input by the second article information input means and the third article information input It is characterized in that the information input by the means is output by an online terminal on the delivery side of the article.

[0009]

According to the above-mentioned physical distribution monitoring system, for example,
The first item information input to the online terminal at the medical institution side that discharges the medical waste, and the first article information input to the online terminal at the processing company that processes and processes the waste. The consistency with the third item information is confirmed by the confirmation means. Then, when the matching between the first item information and the third item information is confirmed by the matching confirmation means, the individual distribution of the waste obtained from the intermediary company or the disposal company is performed by the online terminal on the medical institution side. The route or processing information is output. Therefore, it can be confirmed on the medical institution side that the waste discharged from the medical institution passes through the normal route to the disposal operator and is disposed under the necessary treatment conditions.

[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. Figure 1
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 are online terminals, which are installed in a medical institution A such as a hospital or a medical institute. Reference numerals 3 and 4 are also online terminals, which are installed in, for example, an office of an intermediate company B such as a recovery company. Further, reference numeral 5 and reference numeral 6
Are similar online terminals, and these are installed in, for example, an office of a processing company C for incineration or the like.

These terminals 1 to 6 are so-called personal computers, and modems 7 to 12 and communication for configuring online by using public communication lines (telephone lines) to these terminals 1 to 6 respectively. Network control units (hereinafter referred to as NCUs) 13 to 18 are attached. Further, the terminals 1 to 6 have keyboards 19 to 2 as input devices, respectively.
4 is 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, and these telephone line networks 25 to 27 are connected to packets via the network connecting devices 28 to 30, respectively. It is connected to the switching network 31. The packet switching network 31 is connected to a line terminating device (hereinafter referred to as DCE) 33 of a computer center 32, and a host computer 35 is connected to the DCE 33 via a packet assembling / disassembling device (hereinafter referred to as PAD) 34. It has been configured.

In the above structure, the data input by the keyboards 19 to 24 connected to the terminals 1 to 6 are transmitted to the inter-network connecting devices 28 to 30 via the telephone line networks 25 to 27, respectively. To be done. The inter-network connecting devices 28 to 30 are installed between the telephone line networks 25 to 27 and the packet switching network 9, respectively, and decompose the data from each of the telephone line networks 25 to 27 into packets, Packet is used to assemble the data transmitted to the terminals 1 to 6 via the telephone line networks 25 to 27, respectively.

The transmission control means between these network connection 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, the terminal 1 is an internal NCU
13 is operated to perform an on-hook operation. Next, the terminal 1 detects the dial tone transmitted from the 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 of the center 32 is transmitted. As a result, the incoming packet is transferred to the PAD 34 via the DCE 33. PAD
When 34 returns the incoming call acceptance packet, the inter-network connection device 28
Then, a communication start signal is sent 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 34. This disconnection instruction packet causes PAD3
4 sends a disconnection confirmation packet to the packet switching network 31. Note that reference numerals 36 and 37 in the figure are output forms created by the printers in the terminals 1 and 2 installed on the medical institution side. As described above, the medical institution A, the intermediary company B, and the processing company C can exchange data with the terminals 1 to 6 installed therein.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a data file stored in the dust of the host computer 35 arranged 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 that stores the waste. And for each file number No. 1 to No.
Items up to n are set. For example, in the case where a container containing wastes is given to the intermediary company B in the medical institution A, a label with a series of different file numbers is attached to each container. At the same time, each file number is called by the keyboard 19 of the terminal 1, and for each file number, data such as the name of the discharging medical institution for item 1, the name of the collecting company (intermediate contractor) for item 2, and the date of discharging for item 3 are input. . These data are stored in the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (First article information input means)

Then, the intermediate company B receives each container and conveys it to the processor C. At this time, each file number is called by, for example, the keyboard 21 of the terminal 3 based on the file number written on the label attached to each container, and the file number is, for example, item 4 as the collection / transportation consignment date and item 5 as the file number. Enter data such as the name of the incinerator and the property code in Item 6. These data are stored in the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (Second article information input means)

In this case, the information of items 1 to 3 already input at the medical institution A cannot be inquired at the terminal 3 of the intermediary B, or cannot be corrected even if inquired. It is done like this.

Further, the processing company C which has received each container from the intermediary company incinerates each received container. At this time, each file number is called, for example, by the keyboard 23 of the terminal 5 based on the file number written on the label attached to each container, and for each file number, for example, item 7 is incineration date, item 8 is weight. (Kg), enter data such as incineration temperature in item 9. These data are similarly stored in the host computer 35 via the packet switching network 31. (Third article information input means)

In this case, it is impossible to inquire at the terminal 5 of the processor C about the information of items 1 to 3 already input at the medical institution A and the information of items 4 to 6 input at the intermediary B. , Or inquiries are possible, but modifications are not possible.

When data is input to at least the items 1 to 3 input at the medical institution A and 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 article information and the article information input by the third article information input means are matched, and writes a flag "1" in the item n of the corresponding file. (Consistency confirmation means)

Therefore, for example, the terminal 1 in the medical institution A
In the above, by operating the keyboard 1 and inputting a remote batch command so as to output the file information in which the flag “1” is written to the printer, a list of wastes processed by the processing company C is obtained.
Will be output as. (Output means)

At this time, it is possible to output information such as individual distribution routes or processing conditions of the waste obtained from the intermediary company or the disposal company on the form. In this case,
It is also possible to output the information on a display screen without outputting the information in a form.

In the above description of the embodiments, an example in which the physical distribution system for treating medical waste is applied has been described.
It can be applied to the monitoring of general logistics systems.

[0025]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the physical distribution monitoring system of the present invention, it is possible to input the data to the online terminal on the delivery side of the article such as a medical institution that discharges medical waste. The consistency confirmation means confirms the consistency between the product information of No. 1 and the third product information input to the online terminal on the side of the final user such as a processing company that processes and processes the waste, and When the consistency confirmation means confirms the consistency between the first article information and the third article information, the online terminal on the sending side outputs, for example, a list of corresponding wastes. Since the sending side can confirm that the goods sent from the sending side have definitely reached the final destination, the accuracy of logistics management can be improved. . Furthermore, it can be confirmed on the medical institution side that the waste discharged from the medical institution passes through a normal route to the disposal operator and is disposed under necessary processing conditions.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

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

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-6 Terminal 7-12 Modem 13-18 Communication network control unit (NCU) 19-24 Input device (keyboard) 25-27 Telephone line network 28-30 Inter-network connection device 31 Packet switching network 32 Computer center 33 Line termination Equipment (DCE) 34 Packet assembling / disassembling equipment (PAD) A Medical institution B Intermediate company C Disposer Z Waste

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. In a distribution system in which at least an originator of an individual, a final destination partner, and at least one or a plurality of intermediate interveners exist between them, a plurality of individuals peculiar to the individual confirmed at the originator of the individual are identified. Confirmation information having information is sent to an intermediate intermediary together with the individual, and after this intermediate intermediary performs a predetermined process, the confirmation information is supplied to the final destination partner in parallel with the individual. The intermediate information is skipped, the confirmation information is supplied to the final destination partner, the final destination partner is compared with the two pieces of information, and the delivered individual is confirmed to be the correct individual from the individual sender. A logistics monitoring system that confirms and supplies confirmation information to the shipping origin of the individual. 2. A first article information input means for inputting information about an article to be sent to an online terminal at a sending side for sending an article, and receiving the article and further delivering the article to a processor. On the side of the intermediary, second article information input means for inputting the received information about the article to the online terminal, and a processor for receiving the article from the intermediary and processing and treating the article. In the third item, third article information input means for inputting received information about processing, processing, etc. relating to the article to an online terminal; article information input by the first article information input means; The matching confirmation means for confirming the matching with the article information input by the article information inputting means of When it is certified, the information input by the information input by the second article information input means or said third article information input means,
Alternatively, the information input by the second article information input means and the information input by the third article information input means are output by an online terminal on the delivery side of the article. A physical distribution monitoring system comprising means and.