Release of bluebee® X the new generation Smart O&M platform
On November 13, 2020 Siveco, the pioneer of Smart O&M, officially released the new generation of its flagship bluebee® software suite, code-named bluebee® X, during its annual customers event in Kunshan, China.
read moreA flurry of activity aimed at promoting good asset management practices
As part of its COVID-19 crisis plan, announced in February 2020, Siveco has increased its investment in the Chinese market. The company made the strategic decision to provide extra funding not only for R&D but also for marketing activities.
read moreHow to measure the success of a CMMS implementation
It is often said that maintenance digitalization projects have a very low success rate. Often managed by IT, most CMMS or EAM projects result in systems that maybe work from a technical standpoint (users can login and access the various functions) but cannot be used in practice (data not accurate, no useful reports, inconvenient user interfaces). Obviously such system does not help the company achieve any industrial improvement.
read moreSummer reflections on O&M innovations in times of crisis
Welcome to our Summer 2020 newsletter! Our tradition is to keep it lazy and brief, knowing that our full newsletter will return in September. I will take this chance to reflect on the first half year from my holidays in Sichuan’s Qingcheng mountains. There is little doubt that 2020 is one of toughest years ever… Some companies froze in their tracks, but many others launched transformation plans to address their needs, both immediate (remote support for instance) and long-term (reduce costs, risks and create new revenue streams).
read moreSupporting the lifecycle of energy infrastructures with Smart O&M
In the era of industry 4.0, most energy projects in Asia still enter commercial operation without a maintenance system in place. Instead, the operation and maintenance (O&M) team, already busy with start-up issues, struggles to gather technical documentation, to define paper-based procedures and when time allows, years later, to implement computerized system.
read moreSmart Water with Chinese Characteristics: A Practical Guide for Infrastructure Owners
The history of O&M best practices in western water companies can be traced back to Roman magistrate Sextus Julius Frontinus’s “De aquis urbis Romae”, nearly 2000 years ago. On the other hand, Chinese water companies tend to be considered laggards by international and domestic observers alike. Yet, they are moving faster than anyone had expected in terms of Smart Water.
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