【Haichuan’s Best Practices】Using unattended weighing systems to reduce the need for hundreds of employees

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“Please scan the QR code and follow the instructions on the terminal. ”Recently, in the main control room of the Inspection and Metrology Center at Qilu Petrochemical, shift supervisor Sun Lixin used the unattended weighing system to guide a driver over the phone through the self-service weighing process, while also answering any questions raised by the driver. 　　“Approximately 500 such transshipment operations take place daily, involving 15,000 tons of goods. We are divided into 3 teams that monitor the weighing of materials entering and leaving the company around the clock. ”Sun Lixin introduced, he said. 　　Before the implementation of the unattended weighing system, the company had approximately 170 weighers stationed at various production plants. The meter reader collects data daily, and it is summarized and reported at the end of the month. The scattered and unorganized data poses a significant challenge for statisticians, who often have to work overtime to verify it one by one. Today, only 12 people are needed to carry out full monitoring in the control room. With a simple mouse click, it’s possible to \"measure one door and count the entire household.\" Operators have truly experienced the change in working patterns and the improvement in efficiency brought about by the unattended weighing system. 　　Zhang Guohua, deputy manager of the Inspection and Metrology Center, explained that after the system was put into use, the center was able to achieve the goal of \"decentralized on-site measurement and remote centralized monitoring\". This system not only enables informational and intelligent management and control, thereby significantly reducing the workload associated with manual labor, but it also ensures effective communication throughout the entire process, eliminating the phenomenon of information \"islands\". 　　“The system also exchanges data with the company’s loading/unloading, ERP, MES, and other information systems, thereby achieving maximum data sharing and ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and consistency of the measurement data related to goods entering and leaving the factory by road transport. ”Zhao Dejun, the deputy chief engineer of the center and head of the Metrology Management Department, said.