Information Processing for Location-Specific Food Inspections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing devices struggle to provide inspection contents that can vary depending on the location where the inspection is performed, due to limitations in controlling and notifying food inspection criteria based on factors like food storage and cooking conditions.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that stores inspection information associating food with inspection items and reference values defined by multiple criteria, including country, global, and third-party standards, and extracts and outputs inspection items and corresponding reference values based on input food and criteria, with a priority order for reference value information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a single health officer performs sanitary supervision for multiple stores, then labor cost is reduced, but the ability to control and notify inspection contents varying by location is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service functionality where the information processing device automatically determines and notifies inspection contents based on store location data, eliminating the need for health officers to manually control and notify inspection items for each store while maintaining location-specific adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing device acts as an intermediary between health officers and stores, automatically processing location information and determining appropriate inspection contents, thereby resolving the contradiction between reduced labor needs and maintained adaptability to local requirements
2Ease of operation
If inspection contents are standardized across all locations, then ease of operation is improved, but the ability to reflect local variations in food storage and cooking conditions is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality by determining inspection contents based on the specific location of each store, allowing inspection items and reference values to vary according to local food storage and cooking conditions while maintaining a standardized automated process for determining these variations
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple reference value criteria are stored for different locations, then adaptability to various inspection standards is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The information processing device is designed with multi-functionality to handle multiple reference value criteria (national, international, and other standards) within a single unified system, allowing it to adapt to various inspection standards without requiring separate systems for each standard, thereby managing complexity while maintaining versatility
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device includes: a storage configured to store inspection information in which a food is associated with inspection items to be inspected; and a plurality of pieces of reference value information, each of which defines a reference value to be satisfied for a corresponding inspection item; a first receiver configured to receive an input of information indicating a food; a second receiver configured to receive an input of information indicating a criterion for performing an inspection; a first extractor configured to extract the inspection items to be inspected for the food; a second extractor configured to extract a respective reference value for each of the inspection items extracted by the first extractor; and an output unit configured to output inspection target information in which the inspection items extracted by the first extractor are associated with the reference values of the inspection items extracted by the second extractor.