Siveco joins the 17th congress of the Union of the Producers, Transporters and Distributors of Electric Power in Africa

Siveco and its Tunisian partner ATMI participated in the 17th Congress of the Union of the Producers, Transporters and Distributors of Electric Power in Africa (UPDEA), co-organized by the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG), a major Siveco customer in the region.

The theme of the Congress, which took place on May 28-31 at the Medina Convention & Expo Center (Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia), was "Development of the African Energy potential and integration of networks for African countries Sustainable Development". With nearly 1.000 participants, senior managers of African electricity companies, professionals and industrialists of the electric power sector, decision makers and donors, this Congress aims at being a major event and intends to be a real and a major opportunity offered to all operators and actors in the electricity sector in Africa.

Siveco's participation in this event demonstrates the company's continuing commitment to the development of African infrastructures. In the past few years, Siveco has also developed partnerships with Chinese engineering and construction companies, aimed at offering maintenance engineering services and integrated maintenance management systems (CMMS) as part of construction projects lead by Chinese EPCs. For more information on Siveco's offering as part of construction project, see:
http://www.sivecochina.com/en/newsletter/siveco-partner/siveco_partner-siveco_partner_relieving_your_headaches_in_export_cmms_projects/

In addition to Siveco's own participation, several key African customers took part in this Congress, including the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas STEG, South African utility Eskom, Algerian power producer Sonelgaz, Canadian engineering leader SNC-Lavalin, power automation giant ABB.

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 500 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.

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