Swagelok Gas Distribution Program

Our customers today are expected to do more with less. They are looking for resources that can take away some of that pain and pressure and offer solutions to them. And Swagelok, through our gas distribution program, is not only offering systems but also the complete package with services and support.

The gas distribution program enables a modular platform that can meet a wide range of needs to deliver gas safely and efficiently through a laboratory, a plant, or an analytical system.

It’s intended to tackle the problems associated with taking gas from a cylinder source to any point of use they may have, so the whole customer doesn’t have to design their entire system from scratch.

The customers that we work with are responsible for maybe a couple hundred different gas distribution systems, and they have very small teams. So, what Swagelok can offer is an approach that not only looks at the current state from a snapshot perspective but also, over time, revisits those systems and documents how they have changed as needs change in the system.

Customers do not have the resources to do the constant monitoring of these systems. If these systems are not built well, they could be leaking gas. In other words, they can be leaking money. Whenever there is leakage, it comes along with needed maintenance and servicing, not to forget the downtime that might happen to the process. So, if you have a reliable system in place, you don’t have to worry about all these things.

The main reason to get a Swagelok field engineer to come and evaluate your system is that we look at it from an overall point of view, but also in the details. So, we’ll review things like system functionality, the quality of the components, and all of those things that make up the system.

One of the challenges we find a lot of our customers facing is that they are not always able to assign the same level of resources to their gas distribution program. For example, one customer has a system of over 250 gas lines but a team of only two people to look after it.

And that’s where our highly skilled professionals, who are trained by Swagelok, can go in, look at those challenges, and offer solutions that can solve some of their current issues.

We know the components. We’ve lived those components for more than 70 years, and our field engineers have extensive experience with these types of gas-handling systems at different sites all over the globe.

There are many different types of gas distribution systems available today. They vary in design, and they vary in features and configurations. That’s why Swagelok, with our expert team, can help figure out and fully understand what the customer needs are, then build a system that can really fulfill those needs. The system should be easy to understand and easy to handle, and that is what Swagelok systems can provide.

We provide consistent panels that are designed the exact same way and sized correctly for their applications. They use the exact same instructions, so customers have standard operating procedures and can standardize them across their whole system. And that’s a big thing for people these days: running their operation the exact same way every single time.

So, these subsystems are assembled and tested at the local distributor, so when they arrive at the customer site, they are ready to install.

The program that Swagelok has developed has allowed our customers, and really the owners of these systems who use them every day, to feel like their systems are being taken care of and that there is actual ownership from tip to tail. They can focus on running their business and utilizing the gas, which is really what they want to do.