On February 25, a group of four students of Shanghai University's Sino-European School of Technology (UTSEUS) won First Prize at the 2021 College Student Innovation Competition for their outstanding implementation of a Digital Twin of the UTSEUS building. Using the latest version of the bluebee® X suite developed by Siveco China, the project forms an excellent showcase of how practical Digital Twins for Operation & Maintenance, integrating IoT and mobility, can be deployed quickly to existing facilities without pre-existing BIM models.

 

 

 

The project was kicked off in December 2021. Bruno Lhopiteau, Managing Director of Siveco China, was invited to give a keynote speech on industrial trends at the opening ceremony. 13 well-known Chinese and multinational companies proposed subjects for the competition. 168 UTSEUS students were organized in 35 teams, each selecting a subject. Enterprise tutors provided guidance during the project. At Siveco China, students were tutored by two members of the Product and Ecosystem teams. The participating students completed their entries before Spring Festival, which were reviewed by a jury of academics and companies executives. The award ceremony took place on February 25. Siveco China congratulates the students' team for their excellent work, their original approach and innovative spirit, and thanks the UTSEUS faculty members for their support!

 

Siveco China has maintained an academic partnership with the UTSEUS since 2010, when Siveco China's Managing Director Bruno Lhopiteau starting lecturing on Industrial Risk Management at the school. Joint students projects included the "Maintenance in China" survey, various BIM-related studies, maintenance audits for the 2010 World Expo pavilions and for leading enterprises such as Faurecia, Sogefi, Suez, etc. In 2018, Siveco China gave the school full access to its Industry 4.0 risk management platform bluebee® cloud (now in its version X), offering a great playground for students and opening many future project opportunities.

 

 

Siveco China, 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 1000 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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