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.

In 2007, Alstom acquired a majority stake in Wuhan Boiler Company (WBC), initiating a project to relocate production from its historical location started in 1957 in downtown Wuhan to a newly-built facility in the East Lake Development Zone. In 2015, US energy giant GE acquired Alstom’s energy business, the biggest industrial investment GE has ever made.