This interview of Siveco China’s General Manager was published in China Plant Engineering in December 2011.

Sogefi, an Italian Group, is a worldwide leader in the automotive parts industry, specializing in flexible suspensions components and filtration systems.

Operating from China, Siveco has already grown a significant customer base in Southeast Asia including major infrastructure projects.

This is the second tips & tricks article in a series dedicated to bluebee® cloud

Once more, we have come to this special time of the year. We have set up the Christmas tree at the office and at home. For me, Christmas always brings back childhood memories of family members reunited on snowy days.

The special “Lean Manufacturing” issue of our newsletter, published in June 2010, turned out to be very controversial. I perhaps should not have been surprised, as the title of my editorial was a punchy “Lean & TPM: beyond the hype, delivering sustainable results”… I highlighted the specifities of maintenance in China, which we are rather familiar with, and explained why they should be taken into account: a Lean production process puts enormous pressure on equipment reliability, a major weakness at most plants. One of the key points I raised was the necessity to reduce the breakdown rate before implementing autonomous maintenance activities as part of...