Maintenance is seldom recognized as a key aspect of plant operations in China – how many articles have you read on the subject? Trendy topics such as Green Technologies or Lean Manufacturing are almost never seen in relation to maintenance, which however plays a critical role in their successful implementation.

In December 2012, SITA Waste Services selected Siveco China to implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System for the Renwu waste incinerator. The choice of Siveco was based on the company’ successful experience at another SITA facility located in mainland China: SITA, in joint venture with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), has designed, built and operates a 60,000t/year hazardous waste incineration plant near Shanghai.

In this article, we would like to share how we successfully grow our business in new markets, countries without local Siveco office, by working alongside EPC companies. The experience of Siveco in the Korean market is a perfect illustration of this model, which we hope will encourage partners in other countries.

From its first release in 2011, bluebee® cloud naturally featured embedded maps, an integrated GIS (Geographical Information System), allowing users to display and manage spatial data related to facilities, equipment and networks, incidents and work done, as well as workers.

The Siveco Shanghai Christmas Party was a success on December 16th, with Yunnanese food and drinks and… costumes! Our theme this year was something like “trades” or “occupations”, so we had security guard, teacher, doctor, cook, painter, tennis player, sexy maid, priest and nun, maintenance worker, guerrilla soldier, old Shanghai businessman, yakuza playboy and a few other less convincing ones…

After go-live, the CMMS project of Sita Waste Services in Taiwan, at the Renwu Waste-to-Energy plant , entered its Enhance Maintenance Support phase. As part of the support scope, Siveco’s Customer Service Manager Sunny Wang visited the customer onsite and conducted the first yearly system assessment on September 10, 2014.