The difference between Planning and Scheduling
Too many people confuse Planning and Scheduling, two related but different processes. In this brief article, we would like to clarify the difference between the two.
read moreHazardous waste incineration plant optimizes plant inspections with bluebee® mobile solution
The bluebee® project aim was to improve the quality of maintenance by standardizing the inspection content (such as routine and daily inspection) and increasing the reliability of data coming from the field. The use of bluebee® was to eliminate the traditional paper work orders from the CMMS system and help establishing a real inspection database for diagnosis and performance analysis.
read moreScheduling with Coswin 8i: the Organizer tool
In this Tips & Tricks, we would like to briefly outline the Coswin 8i Scheduling tool. For more on the differences between Planning and Scheduling, see this Reliability article. Talk to your Siveco consultant for more details! There are two main ways to use this advanced scheduling tool:
read moreOrganizing a modern maintenance department at one of the world’s largest boiler factory
In 2007, Alstom acquired a majority stake in Wuhan Boiler Company (WBC), initiating a project to relocate production from its historical location started in 1957 in downtown Wuhan to a newly-built facility in the East Lake Development Zone. In 2015, US energy giant GE acquired Alstom’s energy business, the biggest industrial investment GE has ever made.
read moreMaintenance 4.0 in practice: optimizing water supply assets with field inspections on mobiles
To meet its maintenance improvement objectives, Chongqing Sino French Water has implemented the Coswin computerized maintenance management system since the beginning of 2013. After one-year operating with the system and the results obtained, new requirements were raised by the management team: based on the CMMS, how to fill in the gap between onsite inspection and back-office engineering?
read moreThe Siveco maintenance assessment
After over 20 years running maintenance assessments worldwide, Siveco has shown that poor maintenance can drag down profits by up to 40%. Based on a unique experience combining both industrial maintenance expertise and consulting project in China, Siveco has developed a proven maintenance assessment methodology: an approach that has delivered results for many facility owners in China.
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