How Cloud-Based Digital Cylinder Management Delivers Significant Cost Savings

Improved cylinder asset management can deliver significant cost savings through the location and identification of missing or underused cylinders, improved stock inventory planning and reduced cylinder handling and administration. Linde Gases (Murray Hill, NJ), a division of The Linde Group (Munich, Germany) offers ACCURA®, the cloud-based version of their cylinder inventory intelligence service. This Internet-based system aims to significantly increase productivity, improve traceability and safety and deliver cost savings for gas cylinder users.

Each Linde cylinder, uniquely identified electronically, holds specific data on its contents and whereabouts. Each time the cylinder is moved, it is scanned and traced with real time location data uploaded to the ACCURA cloud-based platform. The service enables live information on gas cylinder stock levels, movement history and usage patterns to be accessed via a mobile app for smartphones and tablets or via a regular web browser. Tools, including re-ordering assist and gas consumption reports, help increase productivity, especially for users requiring an uninterrupted gas supply for process continuity.

Improved safety and quality is an important benefit of the service, with enhanced visibility of potentially hazardous products and cylinder expiry dates. This service can also help gas users meet regulatory compliance obligations in industries such as pharmaceutical manufacturing that mandate high levels of traceability. “We have always played a leading role in gas technology innovation,” said Kathy Hocker, the head of packaged gases at Linde. “We are constantly innovating to provide our users with the state-of-the-art tools to enable them to do their jobs efficiently and safely, and this service is a significant step forward in improving the cylinder management side of their business.”

Linde North America Inc., 575 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, 888-262-6424, www.lindeus.com.