An integrated approach from the preliminary design to the final proposal of gaseous fire suppression system

Tyco Fire Integrated & Security is one of the world’s largest fire protecting and security companies. They help protect more than three million industrial, commercial and residential customers worldwide. They have many branches around the world and their huge number of employees include a diverse group of scientists and engineers, sales professionals, technicians and business leaders. The fire suppression systems are governed by the standard codes and certified by approval organizations. These systems typically consist of the agent, agent storage containers, agent release valves, fire detectors, fire detection system (wiring control panel, actuation signaling), agent delivery piping, and agent dispersion nozzles. The Italian branch of Tyco is the best Italian company in producing, designing and installation of fire suppression systems in the market of Italy and a very strong competitor for other related companies in this industry in rest of Europe and Middle East. The proposal department of Tyco Italy introduced an internship stage and was joined to Politecnico di Milano for developing new ways of preparing a proposal that could optimize and speed up this process. The stage began by training sessions and courses and then, learning the different types of fire suppression systems and the responsibilities of fire proposal engineers and department. Next, for reaching to the goal of the company, we started to study on the procedure of preparing an offer for the clients and our solution was having Standard Documents. Therefore, the logic and first idea of preparing standard documents was born and the statement of “To Remain Competitive, We Need Organization” became our slogan. Finally, as we went further in standardizing, we could better define our criteria and expand our work until finally reached our goal.