PcVue and Siveco, proven track record and local support for SCADA-CMMS integration
Leading HMI/SCADA software supplier PcVue (china.pcvuescada.com) has been a member of Siveco China’s Value Added Partner Program (VAPP) since its very beginning in 2007.
This month’s Tips & Tricks article also features the integrated SCADA / Maintenance System solution developed by PcVue and Siveco.
PcVue is at the forefront of HMI/SCADA software development in Europe with 30 years of experience. The company’s vision is to understand, meet and exceed customer and market expectations whilst utilizing the latest technology and operating in line with countries’ legislation and manufacturing best practices. PcVue Solutions is a suite of software and hardware products for displaying, controlling, managing and analyzing the information from your installations. At the heart of this solution is the HMI / SCADA package, PcVue. The company adopts the most efficient technology and builds it into its software, in order to reduce customers’ operation costs and increase their productivity. To protect its customers’ investments in their applications, all new versions of PcVue products are backward compatible.
PcVue and Siveco have worked together to integrate their solutions, allowing maintenance and operation users to closely cooperate in order to reduce downtime, decrease energy costs and increase facility life. In the 1990s, the two company developed the first integrated SCADA-CMMS solutions for customers such as Renault Technocenter (the main R&D center of the French automaker) or Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (the city-state metro). In 2007, a standard two-way integration was built between Siveco’s Coswin and PcVue. With the development of Siveco’s bluebee® technologies after 2008, new standard integrations were designed. The integrated system is features in this Tips & Tricks article “Control & monitoring integration”.
Renault Technocenter, a joint PcVue-Siveco customer
Sample SCADA-CMMS integration for Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC)
PcVue Solutions is implemented in various sectors, such as the Building and city area Management System, the manufacturing system, Facilities & Infrastructure system, Transportation system, Water and Wastewater Utilities. These are also the key target industries for Siveco.
PcVue core clients include: Airbus, French utility company EDF, Paris-Roissy-Charles De Gaulle Airport, Renault Technocenter, Saint-Gobain, Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), South of France Expressways, the French national railway company (SNCF), the European Space Center (home of the Ariane rocket) etc. all of which are also Siveco customers. Chinese customers include Central China TV (CCTV) Tower, China Minister of Railways, China State Grid, etc.
PcVue China’s activity has grown tremendously with the help of partners like Siveco. Backed by the assistance of a worldwide sales and technical network, PcVue China can provide efficient and professional service to local and global customers.
“With the industry moving to a more decentralized and inter-connected environment, PcVue China is providing more value-added service to its customers and in the spirit of our vision, a synergy with Siveco brings exciting opportunity to provide customers with innovative Maintenance & Supervision solutions.”, Nicolas Trang, PcVue’s Chief Representative for China
“The idea of integrating supervision and maintenance, SCADA and CMMS, is nothing new: twenty years later however, useful implementations of this idea are still few and far between. As Chinese facilities and infrastructures owners become more focused on improving efficiency, PcVue and Siveco bring proven technology, a long track record of success and local support capability in China through PcVue’s distributors network and Siveco’s local R&D.”, Bruno Lhopiteau, Siveco China’s General Manager.
