Preparing maintenance from the construction stage
Experience has shown that the earlier reliability and maintainability are taken into account in a construction project, the better. These should be specifically addressed from the design stage of a project, as illustrated below. This approach, which consists in paying more attention to maintenance earlier in the project, to reduce future operation cost, differs markedly from that of Chinese engineering and construction companies.
read moreEmbedded maps, three levels of GIS integration
From its first release in 2011, bluebee® cloud naturally featured embedded maps, an integrated GIS (Geographical Information System), allowing users to display and manage spatial data related to facilities, equipment and networks, incidents and work done, as well as workers.
read morePcVue and Siveco, proven track record and local support for SCADA-CMMS integration
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.
read morebluebee® cloud: Control & monitoring integration
Siveco and its partner PcVue have designed a two-way integration toolkit between Siveco’s bluebee® facility management and maintenance system and PcVue Solutions’ HMI and SCADA system. The joint solution demonstrates the openness of both systems and brings unique benefits to owners/operators of automated facilities.
read moreLearning from retailers
When we started this company in 2004, coming from an infrastructures and utilities background, we would not have imagined applying our know-how and technology to retail stores! After all, a retail store is technically much less complex than a plant, represents a much smaller investment and technical failure certainly has less impact…This article will simply look into recent stories featuring our experience with retailers and try to show their relevance to other industries, more particularly to industrial plants.
read morebluebee® for retail, with POS integration
Retailers may have defined their “best practice” in terms of Facilities Management (FM) or Risk Prevention (RP), but how do they ensure this best practices is actually applied to all the stores? Traditional paper-based processes, relying on procedures, coaching, auditing, etc. often do not work in China. In a large organization, they also represent an enormous administrative burden.
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