Established in 1997, Saint-Gobain Pipelines (China) owns plants located in Maanshan, Anhui Province and Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, producing ductile iron pipes & fitting, for both the domestic and export markets.

This month’s Tips & Tricks section is the first to be dedicated to bluebee® cloud.

Most Siveco team members, minus people stuck on projects in remote parts of China, were gathered to celebrate the birthdays of several of our colleagues: Bruno (GM), Fiona (Marketing/VAPP), Lin Min (Product) and Peter Xian (Project).

People often ask me who my competitors are. Truth is, our single biggest competitor is “doing nothing”. The single biggest obstacle to our business, with multinationals, is “but we don’t do it that way back home”. With Chinese companies, it is more like “your approach so different from all your competitors”.

How many reports have you read in the past few months, calling for more automation in Chinese factories, in response to raising labor cost? Reading specialized magazines, you may be tempted to think that automation will save China by preventing all MNCs from moving to the cheaper Vietnam. There is recurrent talk about “smart plants”, often for the purpose of “replacing people”. Perhaps the most remarkable of all claims has been Foxconn announcement that they will install 1 million robots in their Chinese assembly plants in the next 3...

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