In the field of maintenance, crises sometimes turn out to be beneficial. Manufacturers must optimize the management of their assets, which they could neglect in good times. China’s growing regulatory constraints are also rather favorable to us, as our solutions ensure their effective implementation.

Since 2009 in its Shanghai-based R&D center, known as the bluebee® lab, Siveco China has developed innovative solutions to meet the compliance, traceability needs of the food industry.

The FMECA is a tool used to systematically analyze potential component failures, their causes and effects and identify the resultant effects on operations so as to take the necessary preventive actions to improve the reliability of facilities, quality of outputs, safety of operations, etc.

Thanks to the bluebee & BIM integration, BIM gains access to property management team, findings its way, for the first time, to the control room and even directly to field workers through the bluebee mobile apps. Conversely, operators and technicians, for the first time, obtain direct access to valuable BIM data, helping further enhance the model with operations data.

Siveco China has long been promoting exchanges with the industrial community, for mutual learning and ultimately to foster better asset management and digitalization practices. Recently returned from a long trip in South East Asia, setting up new operations, our Managing Director was invited to speak at several conferences in Shanghai. This article highlights some of these events.

Media hype has led us to believe that technology would soon revolutionize maintenance. Dreams of flying robots, video game-like smart glasses, flashing digital twins, often hold the sad promise of getting rid of maintenance people altogether. The reality remains that the more automated, the more sophisticated the systems, the more demands are put on maintenance people and their skills. The problem is compounded when this glorious technology did not address actual needs.