First of all, I would like to thank those of you who attended the 8th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress in Shanghai last month. For those who did not attend, perhaps because you are not working in the Process Industry, you really missed something… We all had fruitful exchanges on best practices and improvement methods and of course we all made useful contacts.

Welcome to the September issue of our newsletter, which we decided to send after the Mid-Autumn holidays when everybody goes back to work… I hope you enjoyed a happy Mid-Autumn Festival with your families, fresh and ready for the fourth quarter!

As I am getting ready for my summer vacation in the mountainous area of Northern Italy, birthplace of my ancestors, and in another mountainous area of France, where I was born, I am tempted to reflect on our history.

June was a very eventful month for us at Siveco. As usual, some will say! We have signed very exiting deals including yet another multisite automotive account (with leading Italian auto supplier Magneti Marelli) and a flagship oil & gas project with state-owned Fushun Mining Group.

Another month has passed, I have spoken at a few more conferences, we have recruited a few more people, signed a few more deals… Business as usual? Well, perhaps, but in that special Siveco way…

In a recent interview by China Plant Engineering magazine, I spoke about the “death of EAM”… This interview apparently drew a lot of attention. How can software introduced more than 15 years ago, long before even mobile phones and internet connections became common (I distinctly remember a time when I was implementing EAM systems but did not own a personal mobile phone), represent a modern approach to maintenance?