Food Lab Reporting App
Lab staff tap photos of staff, containers and samples and enter the weights. The app does the weight math and makes both Arabic reports.
Client: A food testing lab team in the UAE
- Arabic reports per case, PDF and Word
- 2
- to a first working version
- 3 days
- review and a request for a second phase
- 5.0★
In the client's words: “I'm looking for a simple solution that allows me to generate two reports automatically just by selecting a set of images.”
The problem
A food testing lab team in the UAE wrote two Arabic reports by hand per package, a PDF draft and a Word report. Most details repeated. Weights took the longest: weigh 30 boxes, weigh one empty box, multiply and subtract, all by hand.
What I built
A reporting system for iPads, tablets and laptops:
- 1Tap photos of staff, containers and samples
- 2A calculator works out the net weight
- 3Both reports download in Arabic, right to left
- 4The Examination Team adds the result and closes the case
The hard part
The first piece calculator asked for pieces per box. Real packages rarely give that number: the team knows boxes, strips and pieces per strip, and some samples come loose. It now works out boxes × strips × pieces × piece weight, even with no boxes.
The results
- A first working version within 3 days
- “It matches exactly what I had in mind”
- “The calculation logic is perfect”
- The client came back asking for a second phase