On December 15, the Siveco China team held its traditional Christmas party. The theme this year was “Jianghu”, literally “rivers and lakes” in Chinese, referring to a sub-society of bandits, martial artists, vagabonds and other unusual characters in ancient China. The entire Siveco team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Wear!

We decided to publish the November 2016 issue on the theme of “Maintenance 4.0” in magazine format, with printed copies and pdf versions available to subscribers. In the era of the China Dream, there is now widespread awareness of safety, sustainability and their relation to maintenance. Maintenance as Risk Prevention.

China’s Hanas New Energy is one of the world’s diverse energy solutions providers. Hanas New Energy’s core business is the provision of wind power, solar-thermal power and distributed energy. The Group also delivers production of LNG, CCHP, urban gas operation, and centralized natural gas heating and cooling. Hanas New Energy is promoting China’s energy transformation.

BIM is fast becoming mandatory in large buildings and infrastructure projects, yet its actual usage for operation and maintenance remains an open question. In the process industry, 3D plant design has a long history but is usually not linked to maintenance. In early 2016, Siveco released of its standard integration module bluebee® cloud for Revit®, as part of the company’s Maintenance 4.0 suite.

Sustainable infrastructures have become a matter of national priority in support of the “China Dream”. An elusive concept for many, merely a business opportunity for others, the China Dream is very concrete for us at Siveco China: all our projects aim at reducing the life-cycle-cost and increasing the useful lifetime of the infrastructures with our Maintenance 4.0 approach.

The “bathtub curve” maps the failure rate over time for complex electro-mechanical systems such as machines or plants. Its shape is the same all over the world, but certain characteristics of Chinese construction projects tend to result in a less optimized curve. Let us explore the bathtub curve!