How Gaea Works: A Step-by-Step Guide for Recycling Facilities

Welcome to our step-by-step guide on how the Gaea product works in facilities to simplify warehouse activities and streamline production management.

This simple guide will show you how you can use Gaea in your facilities to trace materials; we’ll use the journey of a battery pack as an example.

Step 1: Create Load and Job

As soon as your team has organised an incoming delivery, they can ‘Create new load’ to log the delivery of the materials into Gaea.

Once the load has been added, you can create and add a ‘ job’ to a load, where you categorise each battery type in the delivery by:

• Creating a reference
• Picking a collection date
• Choosing a material
• Inputting a weight
• Selecting the handling unit type
• Inputting the supplier
• Adding cost price per KG

Completing these steps generates a handling unit-specific QR code for each battery pack, which can be attached to each pack before the item arrives or upon delivery at the facility.

Step 2: Check-in Load to Facility

Once a job and a load are created, the load status becomes an ‘Expected’ delivery in the system.

On arrival, the items are passed to the site worker on delivery, and the site worker scans each battery pack’s QR code using their phone. 

The site worker will then weigh and manually input the weight of each battery pack using their device.

Step 3: Battery Packs Moved to a Storage Location

Once weights are inputted, the battery packs are moved and scanned into their desired location, such as ‘Storage 02’.

A QR code is present at the entrance to every location in the facility. 

Step 4: Battery Packs Moved to Production Location for Dismantling

Each facility might have different production steps at this stage, and the Gaea system can be personalised to reflect each facility’s process.

Let’s say a facility begins with ‘Dismantling Station 01’; the battery packs will be scanned out of ‘Storage 02’ and into ‘Dismantling Station 01’.

Step 5: Output Materials Tagged with QR code as they Move Through Workstations

Once the output materials are separated, a site worker creates a QR code for each material, allowing the output to be traced through each process stage in real time.

A site worker can scan each output material’s QR code and input its weight into the system.

Step 6: Separated Materials Moved to Storage Locations

Materials are then assigned storage locations and scanned into each storage location.

Gaea simplifies warehouse operations for your team

Using Gaea, facilities can easily track and manage materials from delivery to dismantling. QR codes at each step improve traceability and reduce errors, making your warehouse operations more efficient. With Gaea, your workflow becomes smoother, and production management is more precise. Enhance your facility's efficiency and stay ahead with Gaea.