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…

Companies trying to implement TPM in China, usually as a part of a corporate roll-out, face specific challenges, which may differ from those observed in Japan or in the West, more developed economies where those initiatives, or the consultants involved, often originate from.

Ten years in the Chinese industrial maintenance market have led Bruno Lhopiteau to observe that most MNCs face the same maintenance issues – and most try to apply standard western solutions.

BYJC-Fabricom is a leading supplier of turnkey automated assembly lines, primarily targeting the automotive industry.