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Reduce Asset Management Costs with Linde’s SENTRY™ Cylinder Tracking System
Although you may keep an inventory of cylinders that come in and out of your facility, cylinders can be overlooked when you have many in use and stored at different locations. This can lead to inaccuracies in cylinder inventories and loss of use discrepancies.
Linde’s five-point SENTRY™ cylinder tracking system can help you manage your cylinders, and handle business, more efficiently. The SENTRY system utilizes barcode and scanning technology to automate the tracking and management of cylinders, cylinder clusters and liquid cylinders through production, delivery, cylinder use and return. This helps ensure accurate cylinder balances, deliveries and billing as compared with traditional paper-based systems. Cylinders are tracked by serial number so even if a barcode is removed from an asset, traceability is not lost.
SENTRY™ System Advantages
The SENTRY™ system works whether you have cylinders at just one location, multiple jobsites or multiple locations within a large campus with multiple business units, budgets and delivery points. Linde’s SENTRY cylinder tracking system can help you keep the most complicated scenarios well managed.
- Increases the accuracy of cylinder balances and rental billing
- Identifies previously lost or stolen cylinders and removes them from your cylinder balance upon their return to the system
- Increases the accuracy of cylinder balances among multiple job sites or campus locations
- Makes it easier to conduct physical audits (cylinder counts) with more accurate count data
- Expedites audit reconciliation and resolution of balance discrepancies
Five Point Tracking Process Scans Each Cylinder as It Is
Step 5: Cylinders are returned to Linde.