As China is gaining importance in the international markets, Chinese construction firms and major equipment suppliers have become involved in many infrastructure and industrial projects all over the world, and more particularly in Africa. Projects won by Chinese firms include roads, bridges, metro systems, refineries, telecommunication networks, pipelines, etc. These projects, perhaps due to the influence of European consulting firms in these regions, often require a CMMS to be implemented from the construction stage.

Using BIM (Building Information Modelling) for Facilities Lifecycle Management has become a hot topic in the last few years, but it is never implemented in practice. One reason is a lack of understanding of maintenance by design institutes and BIM vendors or related company. Another reason is the lack of suitable technological tools. In this Tips & Trips, we would like to illustrate this integration using the real-life integration made between the Cadmatic design tools and our bluebee® facilities management system.

At the beginning of June, our General Manager Bruno and Operation Director Guillaume went to Paris to join the annual meeting of all Siveco Group subsidiaries. In parallel to the main event, Siveco China held meetings with our various African partners to coordinate EPC projects won by Siveco China. The excellent collaboration between the various offices and partners, most of them part of the Siveco network for more than ten years, ensures great support for our customers.

Siveco China is now the only maintenance consulting firm and the only CMMS supplier to be ISO 9001 certified in China (and apparently in Asia as well). Our exact scope of certification is: sales, support, design and development of maintenance management system and related mobile solution; sales and execution of maintenance improvement services.

This article is a follow-up on the article “A practical application of international maintenance standards in China”, published in 2010. In the past few years, Siveco China has gone much further and developed project guidelines for the implementation of international maintenance standards through the utilization of our technological tools. Those guidelines are used internally in our customer projects, as part of our ISO 9001-certified procedures.

In previous newsletters, we recapped key projects launched during 2014, with a focus on multisite clients in the process industry and in the automotive industry. This month we would like to share the experience of a multisite Facility Management project launched in 2014. Facility Maintenance is a confusing term. As far as we are concerned, our focus is on the management of facilities from a technical perspective, which includes maintenance and more generally technical risk prevention, a major and growing concern in the Chinese market.