[TheForge] Oxygen/Acetylene Cylinder Tracking

[Grover Richardson]

At 05:35 PM 4/26/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>for what purpose? seem like  allot of work and $ just know where in a very 
>large area a cylinder is. when I get mine filled or replace there has 
>never been and # recorded and most the time It's a cash sale  the only 
>thing that anyone would know is that it was bought there. the welding shop 
>is 30 min from my house .
>Dan Scheid


For an individual there is no advantage, but for Ma Tech, we were paying 
right at 100 k per year in demurrage.  So, they instituted a cylinder 
tracking system and track each cylinder by serial number.  Several of the 
vendors now have 6 digit (actually 3 letters and 3 numbers) stickers on 
them to help in this effort.  So, now instead of 100 k per year, we pay an 
individual a salary for a lot less, and we have unfunded work done by 
others (such as myself) to keep track.  The bean counters love it.  To the 
rest of us, it's a pain.......<G>