What is bluebee®?
A lot of readers, especially old Siveco customers, ask us about bluebee® and bluebee® cloud. They have read articles and case studies, but still have basic questions: what is it, what does it do, is it applicable for me? This month’s Tips & Tricks will provide a simple introduction to bluebee® suite of products and answer some of these questions. Upcoming issues will go deeper into functional component of bluebee®.
bluebee® (no capitals, even when it begins a sentence!) is Siveco’s suite of mobile solutions for the “worker of tomorrow”. Developed in our Shanghai R&D center since 2008, it capitalizes on over 25 years of experience in the global maintenance market and over 10 years in mobility. Running on smartphones or tablet PCs, the solution works with any back-office maintenance management database (Coswin, Maximo, SAP, Datastream).
Unlike other mobile systems available in the Chinese market, bluebee® is a standard off-the-shelf product, configurable based on customers’ needs without any programming involved. Standard products benefit from the larger customer base, support plans, regular releases (one major upgrade every year)… Without all the issues brought by custom development, namely inadequate design by IT people without understanding of the business, bugs and lack of long-term support.
bluebee® can be implemented on single sites, typically to manage inspections in large manufacturing plants, with its own planning tool or running against an existing CMMS. It can also be deployed or on large multisite organizations, such as facilities management or technical field services companies, large network infrastructures, running on bluebee® cloud.
bluebee®’s functional scope, tightly integrated with the back-office solution, is very comprehensive covering all types of field work – operational and maintenance inspections, measurement rounds, meter readings, customer service, regulatory checks, site surveys, fire safety, risk prevention, facility management, etc.
From a business improvement perspective, bluebee® is the tool to implement best practices all the way down to individual field workers, to equip workers with all the necessary know-how and to allow quick feedback to central management for decision-making purposes.
bluebee® integrates powerful mobile devices management functionality, allowing quick large scale deployment and daily management of a large number of mobile devices (smartphones PDAs and tablets). This includes aspects related to data security, upgrades, data synchronization across various telecommunication channels, etc.
Target industries include:
- Industrial plants (chemicals, process, large factories in general)
- Facility management companies (FM service providers)
- Building owners (retailers, developers, hotels, large corporations or government)
- Field service companies (technical inspections, maintenance service providers)
- Infrastructure projects (grid, water, metro, rail)
- Government bureaus (fire safety, agencies with a technical role)
- Facility management companies (FM service providers)
- Building owners (retailers, developers, hotels, large corporations or government)
- Field service companies (technical inspections, maintenance service providers)
- Infrastructure projects (grid, water, metro, rail)
- Government bureaus (fire safety, agencies with a technical role)
The solution can be used at different levels, for example by a large multisite owner to manage risk and supervise its contractors, as well as by their various FM service providers to manage day-to-day work.
Quick overview of bluebee®:
bluebee®
Engineers conduct site surveys (safety, energy, maintenance) and get immediate assistance from the technical knowledge base. Non-compliance and risk areas are instantaneously reported to the central system. Scanning of asset tags (barcode or RFID) and GPS positioning ensures that inspections are actually performed.
bluebee® tablet
This Tablet-PC solution with a larger screen format ensures easy access to documents and drawings. Engineers can also create new documents onsite (photo, recordings, notes) for direct input into the structured database.
bluebee® cloud
Accessible on large touchscreen display (control center) and on any PC, bluebee® cloud provides powerful built-in management functionalities to display data in maps and charts, manage central technical data, plan and track activities, produce KPIs and management reports, manage mobile devices and integrate seamlessly with other subsystems (GIS, SCADA, video surveillance, site-level CMMS/EAM, etc.).Functional coverage includes risk prevention, maintenance, meter readings, compliance reporting based on data from the field (mobile users and online monitoring).
