[TheForge] Oxygen/Acetylene Cylinder Tracking

Mon Apr 29 22:40:01 2002

Grover: so I take it that these serial numbers have nothing to do with the
individuals who buy them...?
- Loren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grover Richardson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Oxygen/Acetylene Cylinder Tracking


> 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>
>
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