Welcome to the October 2022 issue of the Smart O&M newsletter! We hope you will enjoy this month’s Reliability article on "The Future of Operation & Maintenance". We are also happy to share postcards from our activities in Thailand. Plus our Latest News. Enjoy!
Reliability
The Future of Operation & Maintenance
Media hype has led us to believe that technology would soon revolutionize maintenance. Dreams of flying robots, video game-like smart glasses, flashing digital twins, often hold the sad promise of getting rid of maintenance people altogether.
The reality remains that the more automated, the more sophisticated the systems, the more demands are put on maintenance people and their skills. The problem is compounded when this glorious technology did not address actual needs.
Predictive maintenance is often said to be the low hanging fruit of Industry 4.0. Yet to maintenance practitioners it is nothing new. Technology has improved, but the implementation challenges we met in the 1990s still exist today: a maintenance strategy that utilized predictive maintenance must be defined, relevant measurement points and corresponding actions established, people trained.
The idea to use 3D BIM models in operation has also emerged. We have all seen movies showing a technician using a tablet to view “behind the walls”, almost knocking his head on the pipes, breaking half a dozen safety rules in the process of demonstrating this unnecessary usage of BIM. Luckily, this seldom passes the Proof-of-Concept stage. The company could not afford all the broken iPads.
On the Belt & Road with clients and partners in Thailand
Thailand is a priority for Siveco China’s development in Southeast Asia owing to the country’s well-developed industry and growing infrastructure development. During October, our Managing Director visited local clients and partners.
Siveco China is active all over Asia with projects not only in Thailand, but also in Brunei, India, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, etc. supporting Chinese EPC projects, regional clients and local clients.
Anhui Baosteel Canmaking deploys Maintenance 4.0 solution by Siveco China
Anhui Baosteel Canmaking Co., Ltd., under Baosteel Packaging (one of the leading producers of metal packaging for fast-moving consumer goods in China), deploys its Maintenance 4.0 project, named "EMS" internally, with Siveco China.
Siveco China to speak on Resilient Infrastructures at high-level Sino-French sustainability event (Shanghai, November 8)
Siveco China's Managing Director Bruno Lhopiteau is invited to deliver a speech on Resilience and lifecycle of critical infrastructures: from strategy to implementation in operations.
