Katoen Natie: Railcar Management Automation (RYMS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Lead UX/UI Designer | Lumenalta (Clevertech) | 24 months Team: Project Manager + 5 Engineers + 2 ML Specialists + Operations Challenge ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Manual, paper-based petrochemical waste processing operations with field personnel using clipboards and radio communication, creating operational inefficiencies, safety risks, information loss, and compliance documentation difficulties in a hazardous materials industry. Research ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Field observations shadowing operators across shifts • Stakeholder interviews with personnel, managers, safety officers • End-to-end process mapping of railcar workflows • Technical constraint analysis & safety protocol reviews Key Finding: Field personnel needed hands-free, weather-resistant interfaces for outdoor industrial environments. Solution ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A dual-platform solution transforming paper-based operations into a fully digital workflow coordinating railcars, machinery, silos, and human resources across complex industrial environments. Mobile App (Field Operations) • High-contrast outdoor-visible interface • Simplified gloved touch interactions • Real-time equipment status updates • Integrated safety checklists • Offline synchronization capability Desktop Platform (Management) • Facility-wide operations dashboard • Advanced scheduling and resource allocation • Detailed analytics and reporting • Compliance tracking integration • Multi-facility oversight Tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Figma, Excel, Material Design, Storybook.js Results ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 90% reduction in data entry errors • Digitized operations handling 500+ railcars daily — replacing clipboards and radios • Enhanced safety compliance with integrated monitoring • Improved turnaround times through automated scheduling and coordination • Established audit trails for regulatory compliance View full case study: juanmnl.com/projects/ktn-ryms