“Maintenance is sexy” at the 8th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress in Shanghai

The Siveco China team took part in the 8th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress, held in Shanghai on September 19-20. This year, Siveco had a rather extensive presence at this important event, with General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau giving a keynote speech on his long experience of maintenance in China and acting as chairman for the main Engineering & Maintenance session.

Several Siveco customers also spoke at the conference, namely from Saint-Gobain Pipelines (large diameter iron pipeline plant in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province) and Bostik (the adhesive maker's largest plant worldwide, located in Changshu, also in Jiangsu). All presentations received praises from the audience for their innovative and practical approach.

In addition to those presentations, Siveco held a booth in the exhibition area, where Siveco engineers answered questions from the audience. The booth, highly visible thanks to the lively presence of our bluebee^® girls, showcased our revolutionary mobile solution "for the worker of tomorrow" and its utilization in process plants. The bluebee^® girls kept the crowd of technical managers entertained throughout the event, making this probably the most memorable Engineering & Maintenance Congress ever.

Coincidently, two of our partners Motorola (supplier of mobile devices), Vantech Instrument (condition monitoring suppler, the local agent of 01db-Metravib) were also exhibiting at what has become the largest process industry event in China. Based on joint project experience, Siveco and the partners tied up to better showcase the benefits of working together.

Finally a lucky draw was performed and a lucky maintenance manager won a Galaxy Notes tablet running bluebee^® surveyor, our solution for site survey and condition assessment.

The congress proved very fruitful, with extensive exchanges between plant managers. Some of the discussions will lead to articles in Siveco's monthly newsletter "Maintenance in China", the first of which has already been published, on the topic of Show me the money! How to financially justify maintenance projects to top management.

Thanks to all participants and looking forward to the 9th Annual Process Industry Engineering & Maintenance Congress next year!

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

Siveco China edits the monthly "Maintenance in China" email newsletter, available to subscribers and online readers at:
http://www.sivecochina.com/en/maintenance-in-china/