應用鋼瓶條碼管理系統於高壓氣體業

Abstract

由於鋼瓶是高壓氣體業謀生的重要工具，且鋼瓶是屬於危險品，在處理上必須特別謹慎小心，以操作及管理安全為優先考量，落實零事故工安災害這也意味著鋼瓶在維護上需要付出較高的成本，除了在安全上的考量，鋼瓶管理的良窳則影響企業的經營績效。企業處於競爭日益激烈的環境當中，商業環境的快速變化考驗著企業的應變能力，面對客戶所生產的產品生命週期縮短、客製化的要求增加，使得速度化、彈性化及同步化左右著企業是否得以生存。因此良好鋼瓶管理可讓企業在具有較大的彈性並藉此達成銷售目標，反之，不當的管理及過多的閒置鋼瓶則會造成安全的損害及增加經營成本。 基於以上之動機，導入條碼系統管理、追溯鋼瓶移動的記錄並藉此制定標準化作業流程，本研究除蒐集國內、外有關高壓鋼瓶管理之相關內容，綜合研擬運用條碼（Bar Code）作為進行鋼瓶之有效管理，以掌握及追蹤鋼瓶流向，所得到的移動記錄可隨時提供查詢、分析及報表功能。 本研究推導鋼瓶管理系統，可分為三階段；第一階段為資料蒐集及文獻回顧，第二階段為氣體及鋼瓶產業分析，第三階段為條碼系統之規劃及設計。研究發現，雖然，Radio Frequency IDenification (RFID)在近年來引起大家熱烈討論及導入，但是由於產業的特性、鋼瓶為金屬材質及成本的考量下，操作人員只要按步就班依照標準作業流程執行鋼瓶管理作業，條碼系統即可達到追溯及移動記錄的目的。

Gas cylinders are one of the most important facilities and assets of high pressure gas suppliers, and as of high risk during its usage and maintenance, the arrangement and allocation require extraordinary caution for safety. To fulfill the zero accident commitment during the operation of gas cylinders, it generally takes higher maintenance cost of those gas cylinders. In addition to safety concern, the quality of gas cylinder management also impacts the gas supplier’s business performance. In dynamic and competitive market and under customer shorter product cycle time, how to satisfy customer’s variable requests with rapid response and flexible attitude could be one of the critical criteria to corporate survival. Thus, better management of gas cylinders could make business target to be achieved in easier ways, otherwise, safety issue and higher cost would come along with inappropriate management and many idle gas cylinders. Based upon above motives, in order to trace the gas cylinders, the introduction of bar code management system and set up the standard operation procedures would be the theme of this study. This study collects domestic and worldwide pieces of works in the area of management of high pressure gas cylinders to figure out a bar code management system for efficient gas cylinder management. Thus the usage and flow of gas cylinders is traceable, offering instant enquiry, analysis and reporting capability for gas cylinder management This study focuses on promoting gas cylinders management system and it contains three phases. The first phase is data collection andliterature review. The second phase is the analysis of gas and gas cylinder industry. Then, the third phase is the design and planning of bar code system. It’s found in this study that RFID, even though it is widely discussed and introduced, is not quite suitable to be introduced into gas cylinders management system. And due to the operation model of this industry, metal body of gas cylinders and cost efficiency consideration, bar code system is yet to be a more reliable choice under current situation. The bar code system will perform presumed functions when operators follow standard operation procedure step by step.