A newly established Sino-US joint-venture has selected China's largest maintenance consultancy Siveco to provide maintenance engineering services for its new plant located in Hubei province. The company is the world's leading manufacturer of battery separators for automotive and industrial applications. Siveco will support the implementation of good maintenance practices during plant start-up, offering the following range of services:

- Definition of the maintenance strategy
- Organization of the maintenance department
- Building up of the spare-parts stock
- Development of troubleshooting and preventive maintenance guidelines
- Implementation of maintenance methodologies
- Setting up accurate technical documentation
- Start-up assistance for the first production line
- Maintenance support during the installation of the second line

The Siveco team will be onsite at the beginning of June, with full access to the various Siveco technology tools, and receive support from the Siveco back-office located in Shanghai.

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.

Siveco website: www.hbdbzs.com

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