CEPSA Deploys Athelia’s Gasflow For their cylinder tracking and production automationWithin their liquefied petroleum gas cylinder distribution activity, CEPSA manages a park of more than 6 million gas cylinders. They have chosen to adopt GASFLOW, developed by Athelia, in order to track these key assets and automate their production processes enabling real time decision making at plant level.

Customer The need The mission

To automate the filling process in the Identify all cylinders through RFID technology enabling CEPSA CEPSA (Compañia filling chain, avoiding errors produced to gain unprecedented insight into processes & operations Española de Petroleos by manual processes and inspections. Athelia partnered with CEPSA to S.A.). Refinement and To be able to discriminate any cylinder deploy an industrial grade solution commercialization of before it gets filled following different criteria, because of defects, minimizing the impact on normal petroleum products operations. maintenance or any other security or quality related issues. By working in collaboration with the Since 1929 To obtain visibility over the logistics partners who provide engineering In 1929 CEPSA was founded cycle of the cylinder. services to CEPSA, Athelia ensures a as the first private petroleum To gather key indicators about cylinder perfect integration of GASFLOW with company in Spain activity, such as rotation ratio, all existing infrastructure. maintenance history, lost cylinders or A set of support services utilization patterns (zone, season, encompassing all the elements of the 6 Million etc…) solution guarantees durability of the Butane and propane cylinders solution in the long term.

Result: Optimized production and better 21M Tons cylinder rotation Petroleum refined per year With our old system, based on visual We maintained our chain speed at 30 meters inspection and tare calculation, errors were per minute with GASFLOW, optimizing the frequent. With GASFLOW we have 100% supply chain. It is truly a revolution for our 11.000 reliability identifying cylinders in the filling organization! Employees line. If there is a cylinder with any problem or needing maintenance, the system rejects Stéphane Barthélemy it on its own and redirects it to Director of Logistics and Production maintenance. with no intervention. CEPSA GAS LICUADO Why CEPSA chose GASFLOW solutionAthelia Solutions expertise, 10+ years innovating A solution adapted to the needs of CEPSA After careful evaluation of different technologies GASFLOW answered all challenges of the project: and providers, CEPSA identified the factors that ✓ One installation for all types of cylinders made them decide to partner with Athelia: (stainless and carbon steel or composite) • Deep knowledge of the LPG sector ✓ Tag can withstand cylinder conditions (dirt, wet • Mastery of all RFID technology elements or damaged, as opposed to barcode or data • Experience in ATEX environments matrix) • A trustworthy partner for the long term, as an ✓ Perfectly integrated within the existing Air Liquide Group company infrastructure of CEPSA and ATEX regulations

GASFLOW has become an essential tool to The solution gathers more than 1000 tracking events per month. Cylinders are equipped with RFID at a fast optimize all processes associated with the growing pace of 500k/year. cylinders activity, especially those related to the filling chain.

Successfully deploying GASFLOW

It all starts with the development of a full set to make sure the RFID solution will withstand of laboratory tests so RFID is perfectly fitted the test of time in the specific conditions of to the environmental and material conditions the customer. of cylinders. An impact analysis is then Once ready, a pilot is run to make sure all the developed in order to ascertain the impact of benefits of the solution will be realized, GASFLOW eliminating all possible risks prior to a full within the fledge deployment in all customer factories. existing Once the pilot is a proven success; in the infrastructure case of CEPSA, the full deployment consisted of CEPSA. of: ✓ 5 filling centers Athelia then ✓ 2 retest centers performs a ✓ 1 Central system at headquarters and complete accessible anywhere from the internet study about ✓ 1 Cylinder manufacturer directly connected tag to CEPSA GASFLOW central attachment SPAIN | FRANCE | USA | UK www.athelia.com | [email protected] +34 916 302 111 | +33 155 915 933