nexAir’s Advanced Cylinder Management: Ensuring Efficient Gas Distribution Across Industries

Let’s be honest: keeping track of gas cylinders is a pain. They move around constantly. They hide in corners of your facility. Employees “borrow” them from other departments. Before you know it, you’re paying thousands in rental fees for cylinders you can’t even find.

We built our Advanced Cylinder Management system after watching customers struggle with these exact problems for years. This isn’t fancy technology looking for a problem to solve – it’s a straightforward answer to the cylinder headaches we’ve seen across manufacturing, healthcare, and specialty gas users.

The Problems We Actually Solve

Our system tackles the everyday cylinder issues that cost you money:

Finding Your Cylinders 

The system tracks every cylinder in your facility – which department has it, when they got it, and how long they’ve had it. No more walking the floor looking for that missing argon tank or wondering which shift didn’t log a cylinder return.

Cutting Rental Waste 

One manufacturing customer was shocked to find they had 37 cylinders sitting unused in various corners, racking up $1,450 in monthly rental fees. Our reports flag cylinders that haven’t moved, letting you return what you don’t need before the bills pile up.

Preventing Stockouts 

The alerts are simple: “You’re down to two acetylene cylinders” or “Your nitrogen supply is running low based on your usage pattern.” These heads-up notifications prevent the emergency scrambles and rush delivery fees that throw off production schedules.

Simplifying Paperwork 

Scanning beats paperwork every time. When cylinders arrive, a quick scan logs them into inventory. When they move between departments, another scan updates their location. When they leave, a final scan closes the loop. Audits that used to take days now take minutes.

How It Actually Works

We designed this system for busy people who don’t have time for complicated technology:

Each cylinder gets a durable tag that can handle shop environments. Your team uses our mobile app to scan cylinders when they arrive, move, or leave. The dashboard shows what you have, where it is, and how long it’s been there.

Setting things up takes less than a day in most shops. We stick around until your team is comfortable with the process. There’s no software to install or maintain – everything runs through a secure website you can access from any device.

The Money You’ll Save

The obvious savings come from reduced rental fees and avoided rush charges, but our customers find other benefits, too:

Time Back in Your Day: Your team stops playing hide-and-seek with cylinders and spends less time on paperwork. One customer estimated they saved 12 hours weekly that used to go to cylinder management.

Better Cash Flow: When you know exactly what you use, you order what you need when you need it – no more guessing and over-ordering “just to be safe.”

Fewer Lost Cylinders: Clear tracking means cylinders stop “walking away.” A metal fabricator cut cylinder losses by 90% in their first year using our system.

Smarter Purchasing: With solid usage data, you can negotiate supply contracts based on facts, not guesses. Our KnowHow™ in gas supply helps you structure agreements that match what you actually need.

Works Whether You’re Big or Small

Our system scales to fit. Small shops with 50 cylinders appreciate the simplicity and quick setup. Large operations with thousands of cylinders value the detailed analytics and multi-site capabilities.

For businesses with multiple locations, we provide both site-specific and company-wide views. Managers can spot trends across locations, share best practices that work, and move inventory where it’s needed most.

Real Support from Real People

The technology is important, but so is the team behind it. Our implementation folks:

• Look at how cylinders actually flow through your operation 
• Set up reports that give you information you can actually use 
• Train your people until they’re comfortable with the system 
• Check in regularly to make sure you’re getting results 
• Help you Forge Forward with improvements as your needs change

This ensures you get practical value, not just another system nobody uses. The tracking becomes part of your daily operations, not another burden for your team.

Better cylinder management isn’t about fancy technology – it’s about giving you control over an expensive asset that’s probably causing more headaches than it should. Our straightforward approach delivers the visibility you need to cut costs and keep operations running smoothly.

Looking for a partner who understands your industry’s unique gas requirements? Contact us today to learn how we can help.