Indeed, we observe our business has picked up during Q1 2016, as more companies finally start to pay attention to optimizing assets utilization and maintenance. More and more customers show interest in our ROI-driven approach, combining specialist maintenance consulting services and Maintenance 4.0 technology.

Too many people confuse Planning and Scheduling, two related but different processes. In this brief article, we would like to clarify the difference between the two.

The bluebee® project aim was to improve the quality of maintenance by standardizing the inspection content (such as routine and daily inspection) and increasing the reliability of data coming from the field. The use of bluebee® was to eliminate the traditional paper work orders from the CMMS system and help establishing a real inspection database for diagnosis and performance analysis.

In this Tips & Tricks, we would like to briefly outline the Coswin 8i Scheduling tool. For more on the differences between Planning and Scheduling, see this Reliability article. Talk to your Siveco consultant for more details! There are two main ways to use this advanced scheduling tool:

As of March 2016, Siveco Group has been in business for 30 years! 30 years helping customers optimize their maintenance, 30 years of innovation, 30 years building a unique know-how… and 12 of those years in China!

For this article, we have talked to the General Managers of plants that have upgraded from Coswin 7i to 8i. We asked them what they liked in the new version and why was it worth upgrading. Here is their feedback.