I am writing this editorial from the Three Gorges Dam, visiting as a simple tourist, 20 years after having implemented the maintenance management system there! I feel greatly privileged to have come to China at the right time to build the teams that delivered so many first-ever (and other superlatives) CMMS/EAM projects! Even before Three Gorges, we worked on Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant (phase 1 followed by the others), Shanghai Metro (line 2 had just opened!) and many more.

Welcome to the Year of the Ox! Our mascots, bluebee® girl and her lovely bluebee, put on ox costumes to celebrate this important festival and to share their happiness with us. We are happy to say goodbye to the year of the Rat, challenging yet fruitful, to salute the Ox! On behalf of the Siveco team, I wish you and yours a happy and bullish Year of the Ox! May this new year bring you and your families good health and safety first of all, as well as happiness and prosperity! Happy New Year!

Christmas time has come again! In these uncertain times, we at Siveco remains more committed than ever to our customers and to the Chinese market. Last month, we held our 2020 customer conference in Kunshan. During the event, we officially released the new version of our bluebee® product suite, code-named bluebee® X. Our number of customers has increased, with now over 1,000 client sites. Our team has grown as well, in number and in age! That said, it is now time to take a little break and relax, for Christmas and the New Year.

It was my great honor to conclude this year’s Siveco China customer event in Kunshan on November 13. In true Siveco fashion, we let our customers speak at the event! Many thanks to those who shared their experience, their success with our approach, which combines maintenance know-how and innovative tech.

Historically (and Siveco already has 35 years of history, 16 of which in China), economic crises are favorable to the growth of maintenance-related business, as many companies will focus on optimizing existing assets. It is too early to tell, but we indeed see encouraging signs, such as a marked increase in the number of incoming enquiries to our marketing, both for China and overseas market (Southeast Asia and Africa).

Welcome to our Summer 2020 newsletter! Our tradition is to keep it lazy and brief, knowing that our full newsletter will return in September. I will take this chance to reflect on the first half year from my holidays in Sichuan’s Qingcheng mountains. There is little doubt that 2020 is one of toughest years ever… Some companies froze in their tracks, but many others launched transformation plans to address their needs, both immediate (remote support for instance) and long-term (reduce costs, risks and create new revenue streams).