Transition from construction to maintenance represents a major challenge in the Chinese market, more particularly when it comes to documentation for Operation & Maintenance (O&M). While building owners find it very difficult to obtain real as-built drawings, equipment documentation is also lacking and maintenance guidelines impossible to find. As a result, FM teams are often left to improvise their maintenance activity, relying on the experience of their team members.

This article is a follow-up on the article “A practical application of international maintenance standards in China”, published in 2010. In the past few years, Siveco China has gone much further and developed project guidelines for the implementation of international maintenance standards through the utilization of our technological tools. Those guidelines are used internally in our customer projects, as part of our ISO 9001-certified procedures.

The scope of Siveco’s Enhanced Support Contract has been covered in previous articles. Over the years more and more clients have joined the program, benefiting from it in various ways. For this month’s Reliability article, we would like to feature two practical examples from clients we recently visited during the week-long visit of Siveco’s Operation Director Guillaume Gimonet and Customer Service Manager Sunny Wang in Guangdong province in early April.

An increasing number of Siveco customers choose to outsource the hosting of their solutions, instead of investing in their own servers and hiring the IT resources required to maintain them. This is true not only of smaller companies without a strong IT department, but also of larger corporations with very well-established in-house IT team.

Maintenance is seldom recognized as a key aspect of plant operations in China – how many articles have you read on the subject? Trendy topics such as Green Technologies or Lean Manufacturing are almost never seen in relation to maintenance, which however plays a critical role in their successful implementation.

Maybe you already contacted our support team and had the pleasure to be served by Mirley, Sophia, Sunny or more recently Peter, who joined the team few months ago. But how much do the readers of “Maintenance in China” know about the daily life of our Customer Support team?