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.

For this first newsletter after the Chinese New Year, we would like to recap some key projects launched during 2014, with a focus on process plants: power generation, waste and water, chemicals and oil and gas. Siveco China has developed specific expertise delivering CMMS-based maintenance improvement projects for large multisite organizations that have their regional headquarters in China and sites all over the Asian region.

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, our team has prepared a book collecting many of our customer’s success stories of maintenance improvement. The book will contain case studies, most of them already published in this newsletter over the years, each with updated content and latest achievements. Currently under final design, we will officially release it after the Chinese New Year.

In December 2012, SITA Waste Services selected Siveco China to implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System for the Renwu waste incinerator. The choice of Siveco was based on the company’ successful experience at another SITA facility located in mainland China: SITA, in joint venture with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), has designed, built and operates a 60,000t/year hazardous waste incineration plant near Shanghai.

This case study, written before the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft, represents a great example of optimizing maintenance costs in tough economic times. Siveco’s first encounter with Nokia was during the company’s heydays, when the LEED Gold certified Nokia Beijing campus was the center of attention in the Facilities Management community.