A filling device for beverage bottles, having a filling valve by way of which different media, including a product to be bottled, can be supplied andor discharged, and a return gas pipe that is displaceable in linear fashion relative to the filling valve by means of an electromagnetic positioning drive. The software may be directly installed on the subject’s computer or may be on a remote server accessible through a communication network, such as a local network or the Internet. In order to reduce not only the static but also the dynamic loss of the power semiconductor foreign atoms are used in the stop-zone.