For the second time our “Maintenance in China” newsletter is distributed at the Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress, held in Shanghai on September 5 & 6. I am also speaking at the event on the ambitious topic of “Technology-enabled technicians vs. the intelligent plant: the Chinese view”: behind the fancy title, I will simply share our real-life experience dealing with maintenance improvement in the Chinese market.

This article is a based on a presentation given by Siveco China’s GM Bruno Lhopiteau at the 6th Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress in Shanghai on September 6-7.

Saint-Gobain PAM, the pipe network branch of the Saint-Gobain Group, is the world’s leading manufacturer of ductile iron pipeline systems.

The partner section of our newsletter has naturally been focused on highly visible partnerships between Siveco China and companies providing complementary solutions and services. There is however another category of partners, whose importance cannot be underestimated: Introductory Partners.

As some of our readers know, while I first came to China in the late 90s to work on a paper mill project in Suzhou, the rest of my career (after I moved here permanently in 1999, until the end of 2004, when we started the Siveco business) was dedicated to power utilities.

This article is based on an interview of our GM Bruno Lhopiteau, a leading figure in the Chinese utility maintenance market, by magazine Control Engineering China, in which Bruno shares his experience in the power industry and explains its relevance to other process plants.