An electronic method for monitoring the location of a container and one or
more products capable of being contained in the container in an operating
environment. The method can include the steps of (a) placing an extreme
condition identification (ID) tag encoded with a container ID on a
location on a container capable of containing one or more products; (b)
associating the one or more products with the container ID; and (c)
tracking the location of the containers based on the extreme condition ID
tag.