A flurry of activity aimed at promoting good asset management practices
As part of its COVID-19 crisis plan, announced in February 2020, Siveco has increased its investment in the Chinese market. The company made the strategic decision to provide extra funding not only for R&D but also for marketing activities.
read morePredictive maintenance: information overload, the Cassandra effect
This is the second article in a series on the hot topic of Predictive Maintenance, drawing on the practical experience of Siveco working with maintenance improvement in China and the Asia region in the past 20 years. As seen in the first article Predictions on Predictive Maintenance: it will fail… unless., ‘right data’ is better than ‘big data’.
read moreSummer reflections on O&M innovations in times of crisis
Welcome to our Summer 2020 newsletter! Our tradition is to keep it lazy and brief, knowing that our full newsletter will return in September. I will take this chance to reflect on the first half year from my holidays in Sichuan’s Qingcheng mountains. There is little doubt that 2020 is one of toughest years ever… Some companies froze in their tracks, but many others launched transformation plans to address their needs, both immediate (remote support for instance) and long-term (reduce costs, risks and create new revenue streams).
read moreSupporting the lifecycle of energy infrastructures with Smart O&M
In the era of industry 4.0, most energy projects in Asia still enter commercial operation without a maintenance system in place. Instead, the operation and maintenance (O&M) team, already busy with start-up issues, struggles to gather technical documentation, to define paper-based procedures and when time allows, years later, to implement computerized system.
read moreFrom performance dashboards to large touchscreen displays
Siveco has always emphasized giving greater visibility into Operation & Maintenance, disciplines traditionally hidden, which leads to inefficiency. This article features the powerful reporting and business intelligence capabilities of Siveco’s Smart O&M solution, in particular when used on large touchscreens.
read moreSmart Water with Chinese Characteristics: A Practical Guide for Infrastructure Owners
The history of O&M best practices in western water companies can be traced back to Roman magistrate Sextus Julius Frontinus’s “De aquis urbis Romae”, nearly 2000 years ago. On the other hand, Chinese water companies tend to be considered laggards by international and domestic observers alike. Yet, they are moving faster than anyone had expected in terms of Smart Water.
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