Belt & Road: Siveco to moderate Afcham-CCIFC seminar on IoT in African manufacturing
2020-07-03
Siveco China's Managing Director will moderate a seminar on "How the IoT is reshaping Africa's manufacturing industry: focus on Food & Beverage" co-organized by the African Chamber of Commerce (Afcham) and the French Chamber of Commerce in China (CCI France Chine) in Shanghai on July 13. The seminar, open to Afcham and CCI members or by invitation, will also be accessible online.
In the past decade, economic ties between China and many African countries have deepened. As the massive infrastructure build-up continues, industrial projects also abound. The global trend of digital transformation of the industry, termed "Industry of the Future" by French industrial policymakers and in which China has emerged as a new leader, most recently with the "New Infrastructure" initiative driven by 5G, is alive and well on the African continent.
For this special session of the "Industry of the Future" working group, co-organized by the African Chamber of Commerce (Afcham) and the French Chamber of Commerce in China (CCFIC), we have invited two players in the Africa-China trade: Jilles Djon, founder of Bell Telecom Engineering Corporation and Director at the Afcham, and Bass L. Cheng, founder of AfricaPay, to share their recent experience of how the IoT of reshaping Africa's manufacturing industry, with a focus on the Food & Beverage sector.
This unique event will be held on site at the CCIFC office in Shanghai and simultaneously relayed as a Webinar.
The Working Group is coordinated by Bruno Lhopiteau, Managing Director of Siveco China, active in China and on the Belt & Road, most particularly in African infrastructure projects.
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About Siveco China
Siveco China (www.hbdbzs.com), founded in 2004, is a pioneer in the development of Smart Technologies for the Operation & Maintenance of infrastructures and industrial plants, with a focus on mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow".
Long before the terms "smart" and "4.0" were coined, Siveco has been helping clients optimize the lifecycle of their assets and ensure regulatory compliance using IT. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", the company has designed a unique approach combining expert maintenance consulting and technological innovation. Smart O&M solutions developed in Siveco's R&D center in Shanghai cover Asset Management, Maintenance 4.0, Risk Prevention and HSE, utilizing Mobility, IoT, BIM, AR and AI technologies.
Siveco China has over 900 customer sites all over Greater China and on the Belt & Road, including ABB, Baosteel Metal, Beijing Environment, Capital Water, Carrefour China, CEPSA, CNEEC, CNOOC, COSCO, Fushun Mining, Engie, Everbright, GE, New World Development, Saint-Gobain, Shell, Suez NWS, Yingde Gases, Zhongshan Water etc. The company boasts a growing export business, working alongside Asian EPC companies and with international clients in Southeast Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.
Siveco China has won numerous awards, most recently the prestigious Brilliant 40 Years prize by the China Electric Power Equipment Management Association, Top Ten Enterprise for Asset Informatization Service by the and the China Association of Machinery Equipment Maintenance and Renovation (CAMER) and Best Industrial Software 2017 by Control Engineering China. Previous awards include CHaINA Supply Chain Excellence Award 2013 and Engineers' Choice Awards by Plant360 in three categories in 2015.
Siveco is ISO 9001-certified by Bureau Veritas for its entire scope of business. The company is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates its R&D center, and has offices in Hong Kong. Siveco China is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, a European pioneer in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
Siveco China publishes the monthly "Smart Operation & Maintenance – for the worker of tomorrow" email newsletter (), bilingual English and Chinese, available to subscribers and online.
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