Organizing 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.
read moreThe assessment and its benefits in practice
As this month’s newsletter focusing on the maintenance assessment, we would like to share some audit stories and the concrete benefits observed. Customers that have benefited from Siveco maintenance assessments include Auchan, Aotong Chemicals, Arkema, Bayer, Berlinwasser, Daramic, Evonik, Faurecia, FIAMM, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, SCA Packaging, Shanghai 2010 Expo Pavillions, Sogefi, etc.
read moreTianjin water JV benefits from group best practices through Coswin
Tianjin Tanggu Sino French Water Supply was formed in 2004 in response to the rapid economic growth of the Tianjin Binhai New Area. Based on the good results obtained by several other joint-ventures of Sino French Water with municipal water groups elsewhere in China, Tanggu Sino French selected Siveco to deploy a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in order to improve its maintenance practice.
read moreSiveco partner network in Africa
As China is gaining importance in the international markets, Chinese construction firms and major equipment suppliers have become involved in many infrastructure and industrial projects all over the world, and more particularly in Africa. Projects won by Chinese firms include roads, bridges, metro systems, refineries, telecommunication networks, pipelines, etc. These projects, perhaps due to the influence of European consulting firms in these regions, often require a CMMS to be implemented from the construction stage.
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