Hanwha Engineering & Construction selected Siveco China to deliver a turnkey CMMS for the 450MW simple cycle gas turbine power plant under construction in Biskra province, Algeria. The power plant, a 450MUSD investment by Algeria state-owned power company SPE, will start operation in early 2015. Siveco China will provide the project turnkey, with data preparation services and CMMS configuration performed at the firm's engineering offices in China, regular coordination meetings with the Korean EPC and its suppliers in Korea, final system setup and end-user training onsite in Algeria, with Siveco's local partner. The project has already started.
To meet the increasing demand for electricity, the Algerian government has launched a massive investment program, with an additional 8,400MW of capacity to be connected to the grid between 2015 and 2017. Siveco China is already working with another Korean EPC Hyundai Engineering & Construction for the
3x400MW Ain Arnat combined cycle gas turbine power plant in Algeria. Siveco's CMMS Coswin has been chosen as the standard CMMS for all future power projects in Algeria. Since many EPC contracts have been awarded to construction companies from Asia, Siveco China has dedicated a team to assist the selected EPCs and their subcontractors with system design, data collection, system configuration all the way to FAT, in Asia, followed by onsite delivery working together with a local partner in Algeria.
Siveco China has gained an unparalleled experience of greenfield projects in the booming Chinese market and has started to export its know-how overseas, with projects in various countries such as Algeria, Brunei, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Sudan, etc. Siveco works either for the EPC (or its appointed subcontractor) or directly for the plant owner. For more on Siveco's approach for greenfield projects:
http://www.sivecochina.com/en/services/greenfield-projects/.
About Siveco China
Siveco is the largest maintenance consultancy in China, celebrating its 10 years anniversary in 2014. 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. bluebee® has won multiple awards including the prestigious 2010 Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2012, Engineers' Choice Award 2013 and CHaINA Award 2013.
Siveco has over 800 customer sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, Arkema, Brose, Carrefour China, CEPSA, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Fushun Mining Group, GDF Suez, Greenland Holdings, IKEA, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Shanghai World Expo 2010 pavilions, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, ZF, etc. The company also boasts a growing export business, working alongside Asian EPC companies building plants in Southeast Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.
Siveco China is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates a R&D center, and has with two branch offices in Chengdu and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, Europe's largest CMMS supplier with over 90,000 users worldwide.