An explosion ripped through Chenjiagang Chemical Park in Yancheng, Jiangsu province on March 21, which killed 78 people and seriously injured 79. A few months before, at 0:41 on November 28, 2018, an explosion occurred near Shenghua Chemical in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province: 23 were killed and another 22 injured.

LBC Shanghai Shipping is making tangible progress towards better risk prevention with the use of a specialised risk prevention management system. In recent years, accidents in storage terminals have made headlines in China, prompting local authorities to strengthen regulations and to very significantly step up law enforcement.

The use of “smart” BIM for O&M meets practical “dumb” challenges, especially in the Chinese market where maintenance practices are not well established. Useful lessons can however be learnt from experience and standards used in the industry. A project role must be created for O&M data preparation, first to define specifications, formats, schedules before major equipment contracts are signed, then to follow up data preparation activities during construction. As far as software is concerned, a practical advice is to avoid conflicts with project teams and software vendors: instead, an O&M layer added onto the BIM model can provide the necessary support. Examples of projects in environmental utilities and buildings in mainland China and Hongkong are...

The current environmental protection industry presents such characteristics as: massive investments, rapid construction, difficult commissioning and lack of skilled personnel. The industry as a whole looks flourishing. Environmentalists’ social media posts of are full of signing ceremonies for all sorts of new contracts, public-private cooperation gatherings and handsome poses traveling around the world.

On May 25-26th, a Siveco team of Maintenance 4.0 specialists, headed by Managing Director Bruno Lhopiteau, attended the World Manufacturing Convention, a major industry event held in Hefei, Anhui province. Under the theme “Shaping the Future of Manufacturing”, the summit gathered government and industry leaders for two days of seminars, panel discussions and one-to-one meetings.

In this month’s newsletter, we are pleased to share the results of our 2017 customer satisfaction survey, with positive feedback overall and interesting trends. This year’s survey report coincides with Siveco upgrading its certification to ISO 9001:2015.