SIAD has put thousands of cylinders in circulation in less than two weeks and seen the demand for medical oxygen grow tenfold amid the coronavirus crisis.
When the exponential growth in demand for medicinal oxygen emerged, staff in SIAD’s cylinder testing departments reorganised themselves concentrating on a single, common objective: to rapidly assemble new containers to allow colleagues in the packaging department to fill them and direct them to treatment centres.
Described by Antonio Minissale, Head of Gas Cylinder Production Planning, and Roberto Carelli, Head of the Cylinder Testing Department at the SIAD plant in Osio Sopra, as “the most intense weeks”, Minissale said data analysis, demand management and production planning in the first few hours of the emergency have ensured rapid and continuous supply to the treatment centres.
Minissale explains, “Since the first week of March we have been receiving new requests, which are constantly and rapidly increasing.”
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