Chongqing Sino French Water Supply Company, a joint-venture of Chongqing Water Group and Sino French Water, has launched a maintenance improvement program with Siveco, China's largest maintenance consultancy. The project aims at establishing maintenance best practices at the company's five water treatment plants, supplying drinking water to 1.2 million people in the several districts of Chongqing municipality. To support this project, a modern Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) will be implemented, in replacement of the existing software.

According to Li Feifei, Deputy General Manager of Chongqing Sino French Water Supply Company: "Maintenance is at the heart of operating drinking water infrastructures. Our company has continuingly invested in new technologies to modernize and automate our expanding operations, to enhance water quality and customer service, with very good results over the years. The cooperation with Siveco marks another stage in our development, to introduce advanced scientific preventive maintenance methodologies with the assistance of the CMMS and Siveco experts".

According to Siveco China's General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau: "We are proud to work with Chongqing Sino French Water, a company known for its excellence, always striving for more improvement. This contracts is another very important milestone for our Siveco's development in the West of China, adding to a growing customer base in the region. It also shows we have built a significant expertise in the water industry, with our specialists in Shanghai working alongside our Chengdu team on this project."

Siveco has opened its West China office in Chengdu in April 2012 and has also developed local partners. Existing customers in Sichuan province include fertilizer producer Sichuan Lutianhua, manufacturer Saint-Gobain Proppant, as well as several sites of retailer Carrefour, property developer Greenland and facility management company Changcheng Property Group – more than a dozen projects in total. Siveco has launched an ambitious marketing program for the region in 2013, including a series of conferences on maintenance best practices.

Chongqing, as China's youngest municipality under the jurisdiction of the central government and the gateway to Western China, was the first concession project following the opening up of China's distribution networks to foreign involvement. It was also Sino French Water's first large, full services venture in China. In operation since November 2002, the Chongqing joint venture (JV) was officially established by Sino French Water and Chongqing Water Group. Today it remains the sole drinking water supplier and network manager for Jiangbei, Yubei and the new developed zone in the Northern part of Chongqing. This area is developing quickly and, over the past years, the demand for water has grown at an average rate of 14% per annum.

In 2009, we strengthened our cooperation with Chongqing Water Group by securing a new drinking water distribution contract for Yuelai District. The project is to have a daily capacity of 600,000 m3, which is constructed into 3 phases, representing a total investment of RMB1.5 billion. The first Phase of the plant was completed in 2011 and the distribution network has been merged into that of the JV.

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.

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