Wireless Tank Monitoring Systems for Chemicals

Commodity Chemicals 

Several applications served are highlighted below with some common business drivers that apply to all of them:

• Variable demand makes the concept of a regular route schedule obsolete.
• The ability of end users to deliver realistic demand forecasts can be challenging. Having access to changes in average daily consumption allows suppliers to run their operations much more efficiently.
• Serving customers across a wide geographic expanse (Every delivery has a quantifiable cost and if the delivery efficiency is improved the savings is a direct contribution to the bottom line). The goal is to make fewer, (but larger), deliveries per year while never running the risk of letting their customers run empty.
• The desire for supplier to differentiate their service level above price and responsiveness alone
• The desire by suppliers to actively push product to their customers as an alternative to simply responding to orders (suppliers know when reorder points are reached before their customers).
• Elimination of emergency orders, demurrage charges when there is inadequate capacity to accept a full delivery, and back haul / HazMat disposal costs.

Applications Served

Water Treatment: Two main applications of water treatment for TankLink are evaporator water treatment and waste water treatment.  Depending on the application we monitor a wide variety of bulk consumables including: 

 Manufacturing Applications: We support a wide variety of manufacturing applications that consume vast amounts of basic commodity chemicals. Sulfuric Acid for example plays some part in the production of nearly all manufactured goods. The nearly endless list of applications includes the manufacture of other chemicals, petroleum refining, pickling metals, to pharmaceutical applications. Common commodity chemicals monitored by TankLink include:

Specialty Chemicals

The business benefits of the TankLink system in specialty chemical applications overlap with commodity chemicals in varying degrees depending on the circumstances, but there are also unique aspects to this market segment. Unique aspects can include:

• Logistics Challenges - Fewer blending/manufacturing facilities can translate to longer travel times to end user locations. To support end users with consumption rates, suppliers need to know if the average daily consumption varies off anticipated rates. End users with inappropriately small bulk storage capacity historically make it the supplier's problem to make sure they never run empty.
• MRP/Batch Production Planning Challenges - Emergency orders can wreak havoc on production schedules. TankLink can eliminate emergency orders and when surprises arise suppliers can make educated decisions about moving around a batch production schedule because they have good data on who will need what products and when.

• TankData Online: The data you need, whenever, wherever you need it

The TankData Online Inventory Management Service is an internet-based monitoring service which provides the critical information and reports you need to better manage your supply chain.  Using a standard internet browser, you can retrieve valuable tank information from virtually anywhere in the world. 

• Alerts Emailed: low/high temperature, critical low, short-fill detection.
• Temperature Alerts that ensure product purity and shelf life.
• Predictive Efficiency Fill Report provides measureable targets and results data to maximize routing and delivery scheduling.
• Tank Locator feature enables asset visibility and delivery/routing information can be  exported to Excel or your routing package/software.
• TankData Online solves your day-to-day challenge of keeping customers supplied with product by visibility into every tank, all the time.