The conception and subsequent production of gas filling plants are by no means a simple business. There are a lot of ‘low-level’ usages (single cylinder filling) for which a standard-solution is enough, but larger and primarily gas business related companies are still looking for a ‘tailor-made’ or customised solution.
But what is the best way to describe the typical development of a gas filling plant? Here I will discuss a current project which we completed some months ago at Filltech, involving the development of an intelligent filling system for carbon dioxide (CO2) fire extinguisher cylinders. Due to its many safety aspects, this project was an interesting and enormous challenge for all departments at Filltech.
Typically I have to start this by talking about a well-functioning project management which controls this kind of venture. In Germany there was a specific DIN standard for this; DIN 69901 is about the fundamentals, processes, process models, methods, data and data models of a project’s management. This project description ends in a breakdown of all of its actions, milestones and time limits. And at the end of the day, the number of Gantt diagrams and roadmaps is so large that you could use them all to decorate the offices that you and your colleagues work in.
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