Auto dismantling yards in Australia were tracking thousands of vehicle parts on clipboards and desktop spreadsheets. The yard team could not update inventory because the computer w...
Auto dismantling is a physically demanding, inventory-heavy business. A typical yard processes hundreds of vehicles and manages thousands of individual parts — each with its own tag number, storage location, condition, and photographs. The inventory system that tracks all of this sits on a desktop inside the office.
The people who actually handle the parts — the ones photographing, tagging, moving, and locating inventory — are in the yard. Every time they need to update a record, check a VIN, or add a photograph, they walk back to the office. Every trip is lost time. Every delayed update is a data accuracy problem. And every part that gets moved without updating the system is a part that becomes invisible to the sales team.
"The best inventory system is the one your yard team actually updates."
— The UIS Thesis · Entexis
UIS was not built for office workers. It was built for people with grease on their hands, standing next to a vehicle in an open yard, needing answers now.
The UIS Mobile App connects directly to the Auto Dismantling Inventory platform — giving yard staff the tools they need without leaving the field.
Find any vehicle in the yard by entering a full or partial VIN number, or search by keyword. Find any part by its tag number. Results appear instantly with current status and location.
Take photographs of vehicles and parts directly from the app. Images upload to the inventory record automatically — no manual file transfer, no desktop uploads, no delays.
When a part moves from one bay to another, update its storage location from the phone. The sales team sees the correct location immediately — no lag between physical and digital inventory.
View existing images in full screen, delete outdated photographs, and add new ones. Transmission details, odometer readings, and condition notes — all accessible and editable from the field.
Every feature was designed for people wearing work gloves — not sitting at desks. Speed, clarity, and zero training required.
Enter a full or partial VIN to find any vehicle in inventory. Results show make, model, year, and yard location instantly.
Every dismantled part has a tag number. Scan or type it to pull up location, condition, pricing, and photos in one tap.
Photograph a part and it uploads directly to the listing. No emailing, no file management — tap and it is done.
Move a part, update its location. One tap to reassign row, shelf, or section so nothing gets lost in the yard.
View, zoom, and manage part photographs in a full-screen gallery. Pinch-to-zoom designed for iPad.
Designed for iPad as the primary form factor. Every button, every gesture, every layout built for touch-first use in the yard.
Every vehicle in a dismantling yard is identified by its 17-character VIN. Before the mobile app, finding a vehicle meant walking to the office, searching the desktop system, noting the details, and walking back. With hundreds of lookups per day, this round trip was the single biggest time sink in yard operations.
The UIS app puts VIN search in the yard worker's pocket. Enter a full or partial VIN, and the vehicle record appears instantly — make, model, year, tag number, storage location, and all associated parts. The same search works for part tag numbers and keywords. No office trip needed.
Parts with photographs sell faster than parts without. But the old workflow — photograph with a phone, transfer to computer, manually upload to the inventory system — was so cumbersome that most parts went unphoto'd. The result: slower sales and more buyer enquiries asking "can you send a photo?"
The UIS app collapses this into one step. Take the photo from inside the app, and it uploads directly to the part's inventory record. View existing images in full screen, delete outdated ones, and add new angles. The part is photographed, listed, and sale-ready in seconds — not hours.
A dismantling yard is a constantly moving environment. Parts get pulled, relocated, shelved, and shipped every day. When the sales team looks up a part, the location shown in the system must be the location where the part actually sits — not where it was last week.
The app lets yard staff update storage locations the moment a part moves. Bay A3 to Bay C7 — tap, update, done. The sales team sees the correct location instantly. No lag between physical inventory and digital records. No more "I can't find the part" calls from the warehouse.
A mobile app like this is built to extend. Here is where the technology can go next — each one a natural evolution of what already exists.
Capture, upload, view, and delete part photos directly from the mobile app.
Scan part tag barcodes with the phone camera — instant lookup without typing.
Queue updates when connectivity drops — sync automatically when back online.
Visual map of the yard with part locations plotted — navigate to any part without memorising bay numbers.
We build mobile applications that connect field operations to backend systems — for inventory management, asset tracking, field data collection, and operational workflows across industries.