This month I am proud to introduce the second part of Tom Harada’s interview on the link between maintenance and lean manufacturing. In this month’s interview, Tom Harada provides deeper and more specific insight into the subject, which many of our readers will feel familiar with. Maintenance is at the core of operating a lean production system.

Since 1964, the year diplomatic relations were established with the People’s Republic of China, the French Embassy has occupied a small villa in Beijing’s Sanlitun embassies district.

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 in Asia, Africa, the Middle-East and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Europe.

As part of the bluebee® tips & tricks series, this article explains the technical architecture of the mobile solution and provides an overview of system components, which are used across all functions of bluebee®.

In a recent interview by China Plant Engineering magazine, I spoke about the “death of EAM”… This interview apparently drew a lot of attention. How can software introduced more than 15 years ago, long before even mobile phones and internet connections became common (I distinctly remember a time when I was implementing EAM systems but did not own a personal mobile phone), represent a modern approach to maintenance?

We first started working with Risk Prevention in 2009, in the wake of increasing media coverage of metro accidents, fire hazards and elevators mishaps. The government started to put more efforts on enforcing existing regulations and new rules were put in place, while companies’ managers also became more aware of safety issues.