Conference on “The convergence of GIS & BIM for Facilities Management – lessons from China” in Hongkong on June 17

On June 17, Siveco's founder Bruno Lhopiteau was invited to speak on "The convergence of GIS & BIM for Facilities Management – lessons from China" at an event organized by leading design firm Arup in Hongkong. The presentation was part of Arup University's GIS Master Module, a joint postgraduate program run by Arup and Manchester Metropolitan University. This lecture was simultaneously broadcasted to Arup Shanghai and Manila offices.

Some of the topics covered by the presentation:

•  Integration between GIS and Facilities Management systems of all sorts (CAFM, CMMS, EAM etc.) is nothing new. It has a solid 20+ years history.

•  Yet, disruptive technologies that have become prevalent today, such as cloud and mobile computing, offer new opportunities, which historical players (Western infrastructure owners and software vendors) may find difficult to address.

•  China, on the other hand, with its abundance of large, geographically dispersed, greenfield infrastructure projects, its comparatively immature FM market and its openness to new technologies, provides the perfect playground for an innovative technology-driven approach to facilities management.

•  In the form of case studies and live demonstrations, the talk covered the utilization of GIS, BIM and mobile technologies as a catalyst for "best practices" in FM. The speaker also touched on the convergence of BIM and GIS, as a way to overcome the obstacles to the adoption of BIM in FM and to extend the reach of BIM to facilities managers and technicians.

The presentation received excellent feedback from the 60+ attendees in Hongkong and remote viewers in Shanghai and Manila.

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.). bluebee^® has won several awards including the prestigious Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2012.

Siveco has over 70 customers across more than 700 sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, Arkema, Brose, Carrefour China, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Fushun Mining Group, Shanghai World Expo 2010 pavilions, GDF Suez, Greenland Holdings, IKEA, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, 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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