Where it started
Trucks arrive at the plant with big bags, drums, IBC totes and pallets. They are unloaded and then processed: sorting to separate materials, unpacking, shredding (with optional washing) and baling. Every step moves material from one place to another, and every movement has to be kept in order.
Why was the industry software not enough?
For the waste register and RENTRI (the Italian national waste tracking register) they use the software almost every waste treatment plant has. It does that job, but it is old, some functions are badly made and support is practically non-existent: they told me a new function can take up to two years.
The point is that with waste a mistake is not a nuisance: the rules carry criminal penalties, and they told me that even a missing label on a big bag can lead to a complaint. That is why they were looking for a software house that answers change requests quickly, and a developer who takes responsibility for what he writes.
What the system does
It follows all internal waste movements: a kind of warehouse system.
Deliveries, both scheduled and arrived, are read from the industry software with waste form number, EWC code, hazard (HP) codes and technical sheet: nothing is typed again on the shop floor. When a load is taken in charge, the lot and its packages are created, and every package gets its own QR label, printed on the shop-floor label printer or as a PDF. The QR opens the processing steps for that lot.
Every processing step records what goes in and what comes out, and the system refuses outputs that weigh more than what was processed. Stock is shown by area (incoming, to process, in process, done) and exports to PDF or Excel. From a waste form number, a lot or a QR code you can rebuild the whole chain, and who did what and when is recorded. Operators only see the processing pages.
The waste register, waste forms and RENTRI stay in the industry software: mine does not replace them. The video below shows the demo with sample data.
Do you run a plant too?
If you run a plant too, I can build one around the way you work, with what I learned here. We start by seeing how you work, then a clickable mockup from €600 to €1,500 (10 per cent of the build, fully deducted from the total) and a written quote in stages. The software you use for the register and RENTRI is not touched. No VAT charged (Italian flat-rate scheme).
Describe your problem: free analysis, feasibility check and quote.
Traceability at a waste treatment plant
Province of Padua · in production
Who they are: a company in the province of Padua, Italy, that treats waste, hazardous and non-hazardous. Trucks arrive with big bags, drums, IBC totes and pallets; then sorting, unpacking, shredding and baling.
The problem: for the waste register and RENTRI (the Italian national waste tracking register) they use the industry software that almost every plant has. It is old, some functions are badly made and support is practically non-existent: they told me a new function can take up to two years. And with waste, a mistake can end in a criminal complaint, even just for a missing label on a big bag.
What I built: a custom system for all internal waste movements, a kind of warehouse: deliveries are read from the industry software, every package has its own QR label, and you know where it is, what processing it has been through and who did it. It connects to the industry software, which still keeps the register and RENTRI.
How it went: it is in production, and the client told me it turned out to be a good piece of work.