Conference on “A new approach to Safety and Risk Prevention in China: experience with Chinese property developers” (Shanghai, November 23)

On November 23, Siveco China's General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau was invited to speak on the topic of "A new approach to Safety and Risk Prevention in China: experience with Chinese property developers". The conference was organized in Shanghai by the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China and was open to other international chambers, as well as non-members.

For several years now, safety issues keep making headlines in China – construction site accidents, fire safety, elevators and escalators problems, food safety, etc. While multinationals often struggle to implement or adapt their western models, some large Chinese companies are developing their own innovative approach to deal with the problem, "with Chinese characteristics". Bruno Lhopiteau, active for 15 years in the Chinese facilities maintenance market, shared recent experience with local property developers trying to implement "best practices" of risk management across hundreds of sites using technology-driven solutions…

Some of the topics covered:

–  The difficulties of implementing "best practices" in China
–  Building a compliance system: what works, what doesn't
–  Experience with MNCs
–  The Chinese way: experience with innovative local companies

The event targeted multisite industrial and facilities owners or operators in the Chinese market, as well as related suppliers and consultancies. The presentation received good feedback from a varied audience of construction companies, FM service suppliers, architects and consultants. Similar meetings will be held in other Chinese cities in the coming months (details to be announced).

Siveco is the largest maintenance consultancy in China. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", Siveco has developed a unique approach to address the needs of plants, facilities and infrastructures owners in China through the utilization of technological tools. While the market has historically been plagued by IT suppliers without understanding of industrial reality, Siveco is run by maintenance people for maintenance people, focusing on obtaining rapid and sustainable improvement.

Siveco supports best practices in maintenance, facility management and risk prevention through a range of services including assessment, maintenance engineering, CMMS implementation, etc. Siveco provides a suite of very intuitive mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow", known as bluebee^®, running on its own cloud computing platform and compatible with any back-office maintenance system (COSWIN, Maximo, SAP PM, Datastream, etc.).

Siveco has over 60 customers across more than 600 sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, ArjoWiggins, Arkema, Beijing Oriental Plaza, Brose, Carrefour China, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Danfoss, Expo 2010 pavilions, GDF Suez, IKEA, International Paper, Kerneos, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, State Grid, ZF, etc.

Siveco China is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates a R&D center, and has a branch office in Chengdu. The company is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, Europe's largest CMMS supplier with over 82,000 users worldwide.

Siveco website: www.sivecochina.com

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