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).

This is the second article in a series on the hot topic of Predictive Maintenance, drawing on the practical experience of Siveco working with maintenance improvement in China and the Asia region in the past 20 years. As seen in the first article Predictions on Predictive Maintenance: it will fail… unless., ‘right data’ is better than ‘big data’.

The Smart O&M project implemented by Siveco for Nangang petroleum storage has entered its fifth year of operation. Making full use of the maintenance management system put in place before startup, the maintenance team of Nangang terminal insists on the maintenance summary meeting at the end of each month and analyzes the work situation of the month by using the standard report defined by Siveco. Multiple data indicators, including: work order completion ratio, top five failure causes, and top five repair measures, etc. have become the main reference for reviewing the maintenance team work, and it has truly helped Nangang team to continuously improve maintenance...

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...