Welcome to the second issue of our Maintenance in China newsletter! I am pleased to say that the first edition, sent last month to around 70 subscribers (most of them Siveco customers) and read by another 210 (according to web statistics), received good feedback. Let’s continue and hopefully improve, with more contributions from partners and customers!

More often than not, in Chinese plants, the maintenance workshop is a disappointing sight. A place where maintenance workers seldom enter – and who would blame them?

Ensival-Moret is one of the world leaders in the pumping of phosphoric and sulfuric acids, charged liquids, and in the sugar-making and paper-making industries.

This article is based on the experience of a paper mill located in the South of France. The company aimed at increasing its production output without adding capacity, though a simultaneous increase in production speed and machine availability. At the same time, direct maintenance cost was to be cut down, primarily by decreasing bearing replacements and reducing oil consumption.

Most industries rely on meter readings, at the very least to measure the consumption of electricity and water (utility meters) but also to follow-up production (cycles, running hours, quantity produced, and other operation meters).

Our customers only get to meet a few Siveco people during the course of a project. Several of our employees suggested that maybe our newsletter should not always be so serious and we could share something about the “Siveco people”.