Smart 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.
read moreSummer activities around Predictive Maintenance for Siveco and friends
In this hot summer, the Siveco China team met many friends and joined exciting activities focused on a hot topic indeed: Big Data and AI for predictive maintenance. Unfortunately no beaches, no bikinis for us, but good fun all the same! Here are a few highlights and snapshots!
read moreStrong support for HSE with Coswin 8i
This Tips & Tricks is dedicated to the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) features of our plant maintenance software Coswin 8i, a key part of our Smart O&M solution. As shown in our latest market studies, Risk Prevention, and more particularly HSE, is a top priority for plants and infrastructures owners.
read moreBIM for maintenance: smart… or not?
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...
read moreHalf a year of adventures in China and on the Belt & Road
Welcome to the “Smart O&M” newsletter for the second quarter of 2018! The first half of the year was full of adventures for us at Siveco! As the Chinese Government pursues the deployment of its 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020), incentivizing the development of sustainable infrastructures, Siveco is experiencing strong demand for Asset Management consulting services and Smart O&M solutions from Chinese Environmental & Energy utilities.
read moreBIM for Asset Management
Unlike IT vendors, Siveco is an Asset Management consultancy familiar with real-life Operation & Maintenance. Siveco has developed BIM for Asset Management solutions, based on its popular Coswin 8i and bluebee® cloud platforms, designed “for O&M people by O&M people”.
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