Welcome to the November 2018 issue of the “Smart Operation & Maintenance – for the worker of tomorrow” newsletter! This month we are pleased to share a feedback from the session on “Smart Glasses solutions for industrial asset management”, during which the first version of bluebee® for smart glasses solution (a standard add-on to our bluebee® app) was demonstrated with our partner Beijing LLVISION Technology. Also read our latest news in China and the Belt and Road.
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Feedback from the “Industry of the Future” Working Group on “Smart Glasses solutions for industrial asset management” featuring bluebee® for smart glasses
On June 12, in Shanghai, the “Industry of the Future” working group of Chamber of Commerce and Industry France-China (CCIFC) held a session on “Smart Glasses solutions for industrial asset management”.
The working group was initially started in 2006 by Siveco’s Managing Director Bruno Lhopiteau under the name “Construction & Maintenance” and was later renamed “Industry of the Future” to more accurately reflects the topics covered. Often ahead of industry trends, since 2006, almost all sessions have actually touched on industrial IT topics!
Around 30 executives from member companies joined the seminar. The main speaker was Li Wenjiang, International Business Head at Beijing LLVISION Technology. Beijing LLVISION Technology is the maker of the GLXSS Augmented Reality (AR) glasses that have recently gained worldwide media recognition for their pioneering use by the Chinese police for security checks based on face recognition.
The presentation focused on industrial applications, most specifically for assets management, operation and maintenance. The speaker touched on the development of LLVISION, current Industry 4.0 trends, artificial intelligence, collaboration and of course the GLXSS technology itself. Mr. Li also covered usability and personal safety issues, too often ignored in the overhyped context of the “digital plant”.
Li Wenjiang, International Business Head at LLVISION, introducing GLXSS AR glasses
Client cases were presented such as Huawei (technical support), Bureau Veritas (remote inspections) and the ongoing cooperation with Siveco: bluebee® for smart glasses. The new smart glass solution is developed jointly with Siveco China as an add-on to bluebee® app, a widely-used award-winning mobile app for O&M staff. Ample Q&A time was provided at the end of the session.
Some of the seminar takeaways include:
The topic (4.0 in general) is considered very exciting by all, but most companies still lack the basic building blocks.
From our perspective, the building blocks are: a central up-to-date maintenance database with historical records. In our experience the only way to keep it up to date is to equip technicians with mobiles (to avoid cumbersome paper + input process which kills most CMMS projects) and connection to machine supervision to collect only relevant/useful data (from IoT/SCADA etc.). With such a foundation in place, it is possible to build up what is usually considered the “low hanging fruit” of 4.0: predictive maintenance.
The challenge is that most companies are still far from this stage, often relying on an ERP + printed paper process, with mostly inaccurate or useless maintenance data.
Most 4.0 projects are then more or less “cosmetic” – recent examples include: facial recognition to identify employees at the gate, tablets connected to machines to replace the traditional HMI, additional IoT sensors connected to an external cloud for energy monitoring (but not connected to anything else) and a lot of experimental projects (AR/VR) which are never put into real day-to-day usage.
On November 9, Siveco held its first customer sharing session in Thailand. The seminar was held at Essilor Optical Limited Thailand (EOLT) laboratory, where three clients gathered to share experience around O&M best practices and the use of Siveco solutions during various phases of their facilities' lifecycle.
On September 3, 2018, Siveco Asia and Suez NWS CEOs signed an agreement to further support Suez NWS development in Asia through the implementation of Smart & Paperless Solutions for Assets Management, Risk Prevention, Operation and Maintenance.
bluebee® to support Smart O&M of Shirui's Raffles City Chongqing HVAC project
Shirui Energy Engineering and Technology (Chongqing), a member of SP Group, selected Siveco China to implement its Smart O&M solution bluebee®. The bluebee® solution will support the district cooling system’s asset lifecycle, with Shirui Energy technicians using bluebee® mobile to carry out their day-to-day activities from commissioning stage.
The technician in the eco-city: feedback from the 5th Wuhan Sino-French Eco-City Forum on October 26
On October 26, Siveco China Managing Director Bruno Lhopiteau and VP Paul Wang were invited to attend the 5th Wuhan Sino-French Eco-City Forum. Siveco China VP Paul Wang spoke during the forum's main session on the topic of "The technician in the eco-city: towards the knowledge economy". session of the conference.
Chinese equipment management associations select Siveco China for "Brilliant 40 Years" award in the wake of the 1st China International Import Expo
In November 2018, Siveco China won a "Brilliant 40 Years" prize jointly awarded by the China Electric Power Equipment Management Association and the China Association of Machinery Equipment Maintenance and Renovation. The award name refers to China's 40 years of reform and opening of the Chinese economy, the celebration of which coincides with the 1st China International Import Expo, a major international event.
