In 2007, Alstom acquired a majority stake in Wuhan Boiler Company (WBC), initiating a project to relocate production from its historical location started in 1957 in downtown Wuhan to a newly-built facility in the East Lake Development Zone. In 2015, US energy giant GE acquired Alstom’s energy business, the biggest industrial investment GE has ever made.

To meet its maintenance improvement objectives, Chongqing Sino French Water has implemented the Coswin computerized maintenance management system since the beginning of 2013. After one-year operating with the system and the results obtained, new requirements were raised by the management team: based on the CMMS, how to fill in the gap between onsite inspection and back-office engineering?

As this month’s newsletter focusing on the maintenance assessment, we would like to share some audit stories and the concrete benefits observed. Customers that have benefited from Siveco maintenance assessments include Auchan, Aotong Chemicals, Arkema, Bayer, Berlinwasser, Daramic, Evonik, Faurecia, FIAMM, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, SCA Packaging, Shanghai 2010 Expo Pavillions, Sogefi, etc.

Tianjin Tanggu Sino French Water Supply was formed in 2004 in response to the rapid economic growth of the Tianjin Binhai New Area. Based on the good results obtained by several other joint-ventures of Sino French Water with municipal water groups elsewhere in China, Tanggu Sino French selected Siveco to deploy a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in order to improve its maintenance practice.

In previous newsletters, we recapped key projects launched during 2014, with a focus on multisite clients in the process industry and in the automotive industry. This month we would like to share the experience of a multisite Facility Management project launched in 2014. Facility Maintenance is a confusing term. As far as we are concerned, our focus is on the management of facilities from a technical perspective, which includes maintenance and more generally technical risk prevention, a major and growing concern in the Chinese market.

This month we would like to share another example of multisite maintenance improvement project, this time in the automotive industry. Although discrete manufacturing is considered less maintenance-intensive than process industries, maintenance can have a tremendous impact. This is especially true of automotive suppliers, facing stringent requirements for quality and just-in-time delivery from automakers, their clients.