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Cylinder Tracking Explained: How to Account for Every Industrial Gas Cylinder
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Cylinder Tracking Explained: How to Account for Every Industrial Gas Cylinder

This is why CATalytics is built around QR rather than RFID. A printed or etched code does not lose signal as it ages, and if a sticker ever wears, replacing it costs almost nothing. For cylinders that live for decades in rough conditions, a durable QR code gives you the same asset-level visibility, demurrage billing and test-date tracking the software provides, without the read-degradation and hardware overhead RFID brings to a cylinder fleet.

Jun 19, 2026