In 2017, Siveco started working with smart glasses supplier LLVISION at the bluebee® lab in Shanghai, aiming to develop wearable solutions that would make use of the glasses true ergonomic design and edge computing capability, for Operation & Maintenance purposes. This led in early 2019 to the first release of bluebee® for smart glasses, a standard plug-in for the bluebee® maintenance and inspection app, already widely used among Siveco customers. The functionalities are automatically enabled when the mobile phone detects the presence of the glasses. The phone can then be left in the pocket, while the technician conducts its inspection round hands-free. Remote support functions were separately developed by...

As the COVID-19 crisis has already lasted over 9 months, although there are signs of economic recovery in China, many companies have been severely impacted in particular SMEs. Maintenance improvement is becoming a priority again (our marketing hotline is receiving more calls than ever before) but expensive 4.0 budgets are getting cut. To meet the immediate needs of SME clients, Siveco has repackaged our proven solutions and services under the new “bluebee® club” concept.

The Smart Maintenance Conference 2020 (SMC2020) was held in Shanghai on September 2-3, attracting a large numbers of industry professionals and experts to share their perspectives on developing trends and latest technologies. As the event, initially planned in February 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis, many vendors and suppliers had chosen not to join or to reduce their participation. On the contrary, Siveco decided to prove its continuing commitment to China’s maintenance community with a particularly strong showing at this year’s...

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).

You probably wonder, just as I do, where did the first half of 2020 go…? We have all been very busy fighting our battles, dealing with the challenges brought by COVID-19 and others. In previous newsletters we have shared some of our clients’ experience in the crisis, this month I just want to tell everyone to keep strong! And to all our faithful, trusted, customers: do not hesitate to let us know if we can help in any way!

In the era of industry 4.0, most energy projects in Asia still enter commercial operation without a maintenance system in place. Instead, the operation and maintenance (O&M) team, already busy with start-up issues, struggles to gather technical documentation, to define paper-based procedures and when time allows, years later, to implement computerized system.