While preparing for this March issue, it suddenly occurred to us that this month our Maintenance in China newsletter has reached his 5 years birthday! Not just myself but all of us at Siveco are very proud of the achievements of this half decade, with 53 issues and 300+ articles, covering maintenance knowledge, reference stories, CMMS users tips and the most popular section according to our web statistics: various Siveco “gossips” – customer visits, Siveco parties, funny photos etc.

For this first newsletter after the Chinese New Year, we would like to recap some key projects launched during 2014, with a focus on process plants: power generation, waste and water, chemicals and oil and gas. Siveco China has developed specific expertise delivering CMMS-based maintenance improvement projects for large multisite organizations that have their regional headquarters in China and sites all over the Asian region.

Coswin 8i is a Computerized Maintenance Management System and Enterprise Asset Management solution designed to help companies increase their profitability, by improving the management of corporate assets, increasing employees’ productivity and reducing costs, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

On behalf of the entire Siveco China team, I would like to wish you and yours a happy and prosperous Year of the Goat! 2014 has been a challenging year for many companies operating in China, partly due to regulatory issues. In the longer term, I believe this is encouraging as more and more companies come to recognize that maintenance, when optimized, can reduce cost and increase profit in hard times.

Last year, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Siveco China. Our logo was modified to mark the event, we ran a marketing campaign and many festivities. The anniversary celebration is now over… We find ourselves all grown-up, having to face adult life… Our logo has now reverted to its previous version.

An increasing number of Siveco customers choose to outsource the hosting of their solutions, instead of investing in their own servers and hiring the IT resources required to maintain them. This is true not only of smaller companies without a strong IT department, but also of larger corporations with very well-established in-house IT team.