This month’s Tips & Tricks article also features the integrated SCADA / Maintenance System solution developed by PcVue and Siveco. PcVue is at the forefront of HMI/SCADA software development in Europe with 30 years of experience. The company’s vision is to understand, meet and exceed customer and market expectations whilst utilizing the latest technology and operating in line with countries’ legislation and manufacturing best practices.

Siveco and its partner PcVue have designed a two-way integration toolkit between Siveco’s bluebee® facility management and maintenance system and PcVue Solutions’ HMI and SCADA system. The joint solution demonstrates the openness of both systems and brings unique benefits to owners/operators of automated facilities.

In February 2014, Siveco China project manager Remi Armand relocated to Nanning to spearhead our business development effort in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He is developing local partners, with support from the Siveco teams at the West China office in Chengdu and the head office in Shanghai.

This month newsletter is focused on retail, drawing on our experience in this market in China and abroad. Ten years ago, when I started this company, coming from an infrastructures and utilities background, I would not have imagined applying our know-how and technology to retail stores! It however happened, first with Auchan, Ikea, B&Q, much later with Carrefour, Sephora. Even more surprising, we found that the advanced technological solutions we designed for retailers could also apply to industrial customers.

When we started this company in 2004, coming from an infrastructures and utilities background, we would not have imagined applying our know-how and technology to retail stores! After all, a retail store is technically much less complex than a plant, represents a much smaller investment and technical failure certainly has less impact…This article will simply look into recent stories featuring our experience with retailers and try to show their relevance to other industries, more particularly to industrial plants.

Retailers may have defined their “best practice” in terms of Facilities Management (FM) or Risk Prevention (RP), but how do they ensure this best practices is actually applied to all the stores? Traditional paper-based processes, relying on procedures, coaching, auditing, etc. often do not work in China. In a large organization, they also represent an enormous administrative burden.