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Dcpp/Polygait Inventory Control System, Logan Pace, Robert Garlinghouse
Dcpp/Polygait Inventory Control System, Logan Pace, Robert Garlinghouse
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
This report discusses a proposed system to improve upon inventory management issues experienced in the M&TE Tool room for the PG&E Diablo Canyon Power plant. Effective inventory tracking and management is an important characteristic of any organization handling physical assets, and without the proper system in place, companies may lose expensive items and waste time by not having equipment available when needed. The tool room is experiencing inventory shrinkage of M&TE equipment nearing $100,000 per year largely because of an inefficient checkout system that fails to keep employees accountable for the tools they check out. Even more costly than the …