Advent of Information Technology and proliferation of software systems have opened a new avenue of opportunity for World businesses at large. Be it marketing or promotional activities or process optimization or business insights, automation solutions provided by IT based Hardware/Software systems are immense and irresistible. In this write-up, we focus on Oil and Natural Gas Industry which deals with Physical
cylinders for shipment and sales of their core commodity. Maintaining Cylinder Inventory, Cylinder Locations, Cylinder Status and other related lifecycle activities are laborious and time-consuming if done manual paper work and ledger based record-keeping. This is the exact burden solved by Hardware/Software based Cylinder Tracking System.
A typical Cylinder Tracking System automates entire activities related to Cylinders in an industrial environment including but not limited to Filling, Delivery, Empty Returns, Damage/Repairs and others. Automated Bar-Code/RF-ID based scanning reduces the time taken to deliver or process incoming returns thereby increasing the processing capacity of business filling stations.
Additionally Cylinder Tracking System empowers management with complete visibility of their business process, sales, inventory, profit/loss and other much needed insights in the form of informed reports in Text and Graphical representation.