MC&A - Technologies for Automating Physical Inventories

Year
2006
Author(s)
Tracy R. Wenz - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Victoria Longmire - Los Alamos National Laboratory
G. Butler - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Benny Martinez - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Caroline M. Boyle - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sammi D. Owens - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Darrin J. Wallace - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hee Jin Chang - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
This paper is on new methods and technologies available to automate the physical inventory process for inventorying nuclear material at nuclear processing facilities. This paper will describe the process and the data collected during a routine physical inventory. The paper will also describe and demonstrate new technologies and software that can be use to automate the physical inventory process. Tablet PC’s, bar-codes, bar-code scanners, and portable instruments are integrated to help automate the process of identifying and measuring items as they are being inventoried.