bluebee® X enables companies operating physical assets in China’s tough business environment and fast-changing regulatory landscape to enforce Asset & Risk Management best practices from board room to field workers.

On May 28, 2021, Siveco China team attended the French Gala Shanghai 2021 with high level representatives from our clients Yingde Gases (Asia’s largest industrial gas supplier), Baosteel Packaging (China’s leading metal packaging manufacturer), Urbaser (global waste management company), our ecosystem partners Schaeffler (integrating our solutions in their condition monitoring suite) and the Asia Pacific Urban Energy Association (APUEA).

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.

Companies trying to implement World Class Manufacturing (WCM) or Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or Lean Manufacturing in China, usually as a part of a corporate roll-out, face specific challenges, which may differ from those observed in Japan or in the West.

The film demonstrates how Siveco solutions support the implementation of the maintenance strategy defined by Baosteel Packaging, with comprehensive and standardized business processes at working level and at management level, based on Coswin 8i and bluebee®.

As part of their WCM, Lean or TPM approach, some of our customers follow the 5W+1H (“5 Whys and 1 How”) process, or similar methodologies, to help identify the root causes of failures. This process can be supported, and all related information recorded, in a tab of the Coswin work order, to ensure the process is systematically followed and to allow systematic analysis of failures.