Feedback on “Optimizing operations in tough economic times” at the 10th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress

Siveco made an impressive showing at the 10th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress in Shanghai on September 10-11.

On the first day, General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau gave the keynote speech on "Optimizing operations in tough economic times". The lively presentation, focused on practical ways technical managers could initiate and obtain approval for improvement projects, received excellent feedback from the audience. On the second day, Siveco's Senior Consultant Shirley Xuan acted as chairwoman, moderating Q&A sessions throughout the day.

Siveco also held a booth, where maintenance consultants answered questions from the audience, in cooperation with two partners: Bartec (explosion-proof mobile hardware) and Vantechinst (condition monitoring). The booth features a live demonstration of bluebee^® cloud (running on a large touch-screen panel sponsored by Twinflag) and bluebee^® mobile (on Bartec industrial mobiles and on consumer-grade Android mobile phones).

A special Process Industry edition of Siveco's "Maintenance in China" newsletter was distributed at the event, containing many relevant articles as well as case studies. This newsletter is also available online in English and Chinese:

Siveco's bluebee^® girls were the highlight of the event, living proofs that maintenance, far from being a dull engineering discipline, could be fun and sexy. The girls walked around, mingling with attendees, taking pictures and keeping the crowd of technical managers entertained throughout the event…

Finally, a lucky draw was conducted by Bruno Lhopiteau and the bluebee^® girls: a lucky reliability manager won a Galaxy Tab 3 running bluebee^® surveyor.

The congress proved once again to be a good place to exchange ideas, to learn from each other and avoid costly mistakes. Topics discussed this year included how to financially justify maintenance projects, how to approach ROI estimates, how to obtain more benefits from corporate SAP projects… on top of the more traditional maintenance and reliability subjects. The congress was markedly smaller than previous years, due to sponsors cutting down on marketing budget and industrial firms controlling expenses more tightly – in total contradiction with the need to further optimize maintenance in tough economic times! This will be the topic of a future issue of the Siveco "Maintenance in China" newsletter.

The Siveco team would like to thanks to all participants for the good time spent together!

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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