This year the Siveco China team goes west for the holiday season! There are several reasons for us to walk in the legendary steps of Tang Seng and his disciples journeying to India. First of all, our business has expanded considerably outside of China in the past few years, into many Asian countries and as far as Africa. Second, traveling from Shanghai, west is the right way to go to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ! Last but not least, this gave us a very exciting theme for our traditional costumed Christmas party!

Do you have leftover budgets for this year? Have you budgeted maintenance projects in 2016? Have you thought about using it to run a maintenance improvement project, in the form of an audit, Coswin 8i upgrade, the implementation of bluebee®, etc.? It is not too late! Make sure you did not forget to budget for your annual Siveco support contract (enhanced or not), for planned expansion of system usage or additional services, etc.

The main reason to upgrade from Coswin 7i to Coswin 8i is to further improve maintenance performance – at every level. As part of our 2015 Summer Roadshow, we have talked with many customers already using Coswin 8i and asked them what they liked in the new version, and why was it worth upgrading. Here is their feedback! Recognizing that different people have different needs and views, we are preparing similar articles from the perspective of IT managers and top managers.

To meet its maintenance improvement objectives, Chongqing Sino French Water has implemented the Coswin computerized maintenance management system since the beginning of 2013. After one-year operating with the system and the results obtained, new requirements were raised by the management team: based on the CMMS, how to fill in the gap between onsite inspection and back-office engineering?

Coswin 8i is now accessible on tablets. In touch-screen mode, Coswin 8i screens are optimized for the tablets smaller screen format and specific touch-screen usage with fingers. Coswin 8i is certified for Windows 7 & 8 and Android 4.2 and above tablets, running Chrome version 30 or above. Screen should be minimum 7’’ (10’’ recommended).

On Nov. 14th, the Siveco Shanghai team went to Gucun Park for team building.We had a really delicious barbeque lunch there and played squeezing balloons, tug of war and the most popular game “nametag ripping battle”. Poor people who lost the game got punished to jump roping on shiatsu sheet. Since everyone had a great time with two cute little members, we are looking forward to a family day next time.