While maintenance and facility management expenditures tend to be considered low in China (cheap labor, locally-made spare parts, cut-throat competition between contractors), studies and experience show that companies’ top executives still focus on reducing them. Outsourcing decisions are, for example, usually motivated by an immediate reduction in maintenance spending.

Changcheng Property Group Co., Ltd. (CCPG), the first joint-stock property management company in China, ranks among the top 3 local Facility Management service suppliers.

This article is a joint contribution by PcVue China and Siveco.

The present article is the first in a series dedicated to lesser-known COSWIN functionalities, which can be easily be configured by customers’ themselves to bring immediate benefits.

This month we are pleased to introduce the driving force behind the “Maintenance in China” newsletter, our lovely marketing manager Fiona Yan.

The trend started several years ago, but nowadays everybody is talking about “Lean”. Not denying the benefits of this approach, which from my maintenance point-of-view is nothing but a generalization of the TPM principles, I am by nature very wary of today’s over-hyped concepts…