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The history of Siveco – 25 years of innovation and international expansion; 8 years and a bright future in China…

Posted on 2012-07-27

The first decade – The founding of a CMMS leader…
1986

Founding of Siveco Group (France); a pioneer of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) in the French market, the company was to become the largest CMMS provider in Europe, with over 80,000 users in more than 60 countries.
 
First contracts in the oil & gas industry and with major state-owned utilities EDF (Electricity of France) and GDF (Gas of France).
1989 Release of Siveco’s first standard software product: COSMAN. The ancestor of COSWIN, COSMAN was a MS-DOS application.
1991 Opening of Siveco UK, the first Siveco subsidiary abroad. Siveco UK later became a major player in the local CMMS market, winning projects with privatized transportation and utility companies, defense contractors and manufacturing plants.
1992 Setup of Siveco Romania as Siveco’s R&D unit. Siveco Romania was to become one of the largest software companies in Romania and the largest of all Siveco companies (68 million Euros revenue in 2011).
1994 Release of COSWIN, an innovative Windows-based CMMS, introducing key concepts such as the horizontal navigation, the Diagram Editor, the Screen Editor, the links to external documents, the integrated report writer etc.
1995 Release of COSWIN 4, with advanced functionality such as repairables handling, automatic purchase requests, actions on work orders, technical attributes, advanced preventive maintenance planning etc.
The second decade – Singapore metro and international expansion…
1996 First contract with Singapore MRT for the world’s first fully automated metro line, the North East Line, the first Siveco project in Asia, featuring implementation of the CMMS from the early construction stage and extensive integration with various SCADA and Condition Monitoring systems.
1997 Setup of Siveco Italy, confirming Siveco’s position as the leading European CMMS supplier. Siveco Italy went on to work with major Italian groups (Ansaldo, Danieli, Fiat, Finmeccanica, GE Nuovo Pignone etc.) both for the local and exports markets (e.g. the world’s largest infrastructure project, the Great Man-Made River in Lybia).
1999 Release of COSWIN Client/Server edition running on Oracle or MS SQL database. Introduction of multiple tree structures, interface tools, configurable free modules, the Clic-Clac data migration engine, etc.
2000 Release of COSWIN 6, designed for large scale enterprises, with multi-company functionalities and an improved user interface (graphical planning tool, workflows). COSWIN 6 also integrates all the developments made for the Singapore MRT project.
2002

Start-up of Siveco Greece. The company later worked with a strong focus on facilities management, landing major deals with the 2004 Athens Olympic facilities, airports, hotel chains and FM companies.
 
Acquisition of Teclogie, another major French CMMS supplier, affirming Siveco as the leader in Europe’s largest CMMS market. All Teclogie customers were migrated to COSWIN.
2002 Release of COSWIN Mobile, the first mobile version of COSWIN, already working on multiple OS platforms (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm).
2003 Release of COSWIN 7i, the first full-web version of COSWIN, at a time where most CMMS were still Client/Server based with web add-ons for Job Requests. Further user interface improvements to simply the usage of COSWIN in spite of more and more advanced functionalities.
2004 Siveco starts its operations in China through a distributor, maintenance consulting firm Arcadia Consulting, founded by Bruno Lhopiteau, a veteran of the Chinese maintenance market. First project with Beijing Oriental Plaza, one of most prestigious real estate complex in Beijing.
2005 With a positioning on maintenance improvement rather than pure CMMS, Siveco China started to win projects both with multinational and local companies (SITA Waste Services, SinoFrench Water, Auchan Supermarkets, etc.).
The third decade – The China years…
2007 Siveco China (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) opens in Shanghai, taking over all the customers of Arcadia Consulting. Growing customer base, mostly among multinational manufacturers. Setup of a Joint-Venture business with construction service provider AES International.
2007 Founding of Siveco Brazil to manage Siveco’s distributors network in South America. The company went on to implement some of Siveco’s largest projects, for example with oil company Ipiranga (Brazil) or space observatory Alma (Chile).
 
Siveco China launches its Value Added Partner Program (VAPP), aimed at providing better access to Siveco’s maintenance improvement solutions for customers across regions and industries. VAPP is designed to offer significant profit-sharing opportunities to partners with strong expertise in their industrial or geographical areas.
2008

New visual identity for Siveco Group, new company logo and corporate color changed from green to blue.
 
Setup of dedicated industry teams in the various Siveco office to further develop the company’s products and services in specific market segments.
 
Establishment of Siveco Tunisia to support business on the African continent, where Siveco was already the market leader thanks to an extensive network of partners active since the 1980s. Siveco Tunisia also included a local R&D team and a support center, part of the global support network of Siveco Group.
 
Siveco China successively acquires the maintenance business of Clemessy China (a leading French supplier of multi-technical facility services with a small installed base in China) and takes over 100% of the JV setup with AES International. Siveco becomes the largest maintenance consultancy in China.
     Siveco China joins the support network of Siveco Group, offering 24/7 hotline technical support to customers worldwide from its Shanghai support center.
2009 In the midst of the financial crisis, decision to invest in R&D in China (mobile solutions bluebee® “for the worker of tomorrow”).
 
Fast development on large multi-site customers (Saint-Gobain Pipelines, International Paper, Changcheng Property Group) and overseas business with projects in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
2010

Continuing investment in R&D (bluebee® cloud for multisite facilities management), expansion of the Shanghai R&D center, with both in-house and outsourced teams.
 
Launch of the “Maintenance in China” newsletter, a 12-page monthly newsletter available online and to subscribers, and distributed in magazine format at various maintenance events.
 
Shanghai World Expo 2010 projects focused on sustainability (the “second life” of the buildings). First customers going “live” with bluebee® (Changcheng Property Group, focused on internal auditing and inspections and Sichuan Lutianhua, focused on safety and predictive maintenance inspections of a large chemical complex).
2011 Opening of Siveco Benelux office in Belgium, covering the Belgium-Netherland-Luxemburg area (until now managed by a distributor) with major customers such as the European Union government facilities.
     Siveco tablet-PC solution wins innovation award at MAINTEC 2011, the leading Maintenance and Asset Management show in the UK.
2012 Opening of a second China office in Chengdu, immediately followed by the opening of a dedicated R&D office in Shanghai for the bluebee® and bluebee® cloud teams.
 
Today, over 600 sites use Siveco solutions and services in China. Siveco China, the country’s largest maintenance consultancy, currently employs over 40 people in its Shanghai and Chengdu and manages a network of Value Added Partners in various locations.
    

 
Siveco Group boasts over 82,000 users worldwide. After a good 2011 financial year, Siveco has confirmed its position as Europe’s largest CMMS supplier, with business in over 60 countries through a network of Siveco companies and partners.

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