nursery cost are rising on all sides . This is an invitation to begin looking at saving . labour is still the largest toll detail . So , there is much to be gained , peculiarly among cultivator who have not yet used any labour and crop registration system . Yet it is particularly hard to explain to them because unmeasured is unknown .
In the Netherlands , Jeffrey van Uunen of ProCC , however , expects more grower to finally commence working with labor and craw registrations . " To be able-bodied to salve money thanks to higher labor productiveness . But also to incite faculty , reward , and conduct them where necessary . The latter , however , is unmanageable if you do n’t have a labor overview , " he commence .
Sadik Usluer and Jeffrey at HortiContact 2019
Jeffrey and Sadik Usluer founded ProCC in 2016 . Their elementary goal is to simplify business operations in greenhouse farming . No long Excel documents and hour of writing and manual processing of data point . Just fast , easy , accurate labor movement and crop registration .
It uses software package , smartphones , and NFC tag . Workers , path , and carts are chase . " It can , therefore , show all sort of childbed processes . And thus put up more and more data penetration with which to optimize mental process . "
" We listened cautiously to the grower ’s input . And finally , we could simplify this process . The workers made few input error , partly thanks to adding a visual aspect . The raiser can now apply our system to show per day which trays are to be used . "
" The staff sees this in a clear picture . The system then indicates , during harvest , how many trays are fill with either Class 1 or 2 . In this style , the cultivator has quick , easy sixth sense into his crop . Even before packaging begins , " says Jeffrey .
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Extra dataThe registration has an additional benefit . The agriculturalist can say , see why more class 2 was reap in a special path . " Glancing at the clime information processing system can show issue , and the agriculturist can do . "
nursery laborers also sometimes come across pests or disease . ProCC ’s app allow report such findings by adding a photo and substance . " We desire to expand that function even further and add it to our control app too . We offer this in addition to the labor and harvest registration app . This function will become a exploratory survey faculty in the control app , " Jeffrey preserve .
control wellProCC is presently making big variety to the control app . " Farm managers will soon have genuine - time perceptiveness into how employee are perform in the greenhouse . Our experience try out that when you manipulate labor , people perform better . And labor productivity rises . Monitoring has a electronegative image , but we do n’t think it ’s a bad thing at all . "
" If no one can see what citizenry are doing , they usually do n’t work as firmly . But , you also ca n’t honour specific workers . You ca n’t ensure them with a better salary for honest execution . And you ca n’t organise them . When growers set out recording work , they know exactly where the hours go , " says the software developer .
Everyone has a exculpated taskIn Jeffrey ’s experience , labor movement and crop adjustment are even less established in decorative plant finish than yield and vegetables . " There are major gain to be made there . Though there are still gains to be made in other crops as well . Sometimes , for example , by putting people in different positions . By registering work , for example , you may compare how people who do multiple tasks perform . "
" It may become out that someone is great at cut leaves but picks few kilos per hour . Growers can advantageously apply that person for leafage cut . Or you’re able to couple someone who ’s already expert at picking with someone who can still make progress . But then again , you have to have insight into work performance , " he explains .
SavingEnergy prices are presently high , and the great unwashed are ( again ) closely inspecting monetary value . " When planting , growers could feel their cultivation only costs money . You could do some heart , but project remain the biggest cost item . And it ’s easy to save on that . unremarkably , customer say they ( still ) handle to save on Labour Party . "
" That ’s when using our system . We always say if you take off working with our system of rules and put a little meter in it for a week , you ’ll already see answer a month later . That ’s because productivity increases . When you use the organisation in good order , it easily compensate for itself , " Jeffrey says .
' Great idea’Recently , various automaton have been introduce into the yield - veggie sector . It raises a question for labor supplier and crop registration software program . What is their function ? " We ’re still truly focusing on human labour . But you could also record the robots ' labor , and not just the pep pill . "
" You want to know how the automaton execute . And you could equate that with human performance too . We ’d be exposed to a pilot labor if we were to receive such a petition . But , for now , I do n’t think our software will be linked directly to robots , " adds Jeffrey .
As of late , customers have been want a direct overview of how hoi polloi are working in the glasshouse . That , without having to log into a website on a big computer . Jeffrey stir on this in the first place . " This was a client ’s approximation . We think it ’s a great one , so we ’re developing that . Once we can , we ’ll integrate it into our software for all customers , at no extra cost . Then everyone can benefit from such slap-up ideas from the field . "
roll out a completely updated ProCC software program version is another ontogeny . " With this , we ’re speeding up the organization ’s performance by 80 % . That ’s authoritative because an increasing amount of data is link with labor and craw registration . We go for to introduce this edition in 2022 . We ’re presently work on the beta version in our test nursery , " Jeffrey reason .
For more information : Jeffrey van UunenProCCEmail:[email protected]Website : www.procc.nl
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