Personalizing Your Settings in TrackAbout

Did you know you have the ability to personalize some of your settings? Here's how.

TrackAbout Acquired by Datacor

Nineteen years ago, we set out to change the way the world tracks and manages portable, physical assets. Through continuous collaboration with our customer base, including world-class organizations in over 30 countries, TrackAbout has become the best solution for tracking, managing, maintaining and renting portable, physical assets.

Do You Overcharge or Undercharge Your Customers?

About 2%-3% of all delivery/pickups have a mistake on them. (Mistakes are more common on pickups, but deliveries have mistakes too.)

Tiered Rental: Set It and Forget It

Our ongoing Feature Spotlight series highlights one important tool in the TrackAbout toolbox to help you operate more efficiently and maximize the utilization of your assets.

Pitfall: Serial Numbers are Not Unique

When tracking your equipment, every item must have a unique identifier (ID) assigned so the system can tell them apart. This can be called the “tracking ID”, “tag ID” or “barcode."

But how do you choose the format of that unique ID in your serial number tracking system? What do you encode into the barcode?

The History (and Future) of Cylinder Tracking

I was very honored to be asked to write an article on the history of gas cylinder tracking systems for the 25th Anniversary Issue of CryoGas International Magazine. I'm proud that TrackAbout has been a leader in developing asset tracking technology for the industrial gas industry for the past 15 years. That experience has given me a chance to watch this technology grow from its infancy.

Feature Spotlight: Maintenance Action Schedules

Our ongoing Feature Spotlight series highlights one important tool in the TrackAbout toolbox to help you operate more efficiently and maximize the utilization of your assets in any asset management programs.

Use Shortcut Barcodes to Accelerate Your Work

If you only think of a barcode as a tracking ID, think bigger. Shortcut barcodes can be used as work accelerators enabling great gains in worker productivity.

Barcodes: A Brief History

The first barcode, with a design like a bullseye, was invented in 1948 by two Drexel University students named Norman J Woodland and Bernard Silver. They were interested in tackling the problems of the supermarket industry, which sorely needed a better method of inventory management and customer check-out. The pair received a patent in 1952. Long story short, it worked in the lab but was wildly impractical due to the limitations of the technology of the day.

Feature Spotlight: Consumables and Hard Goods

Our ongoing Feature Spotlight series highlights one important tool in the TrackAbout toolbox to help you operate more efficiently and maximize the utilization of your assets.