Audits & assessments
Audits & assessments
Companies tend to see maintenance as a necessary cost, often considered low in China (cheap labor, locally-made parts). Priority is being put on new investment, energy savings, safety, etc. seldom seen in relation to maintenance. Experience, on the contrary, shows that maintenance has a dynamic effect on the whole infrastructure. If maintenance is poor, the plant will never reach its full potential, safety risk will increase and the company will not be as profitable as it should be.
Maintenance improvement is often not about cutting budgets, but about improving effectiveness, reducing losses and preventing risks: indeed, our studies show that you can save more than 10 times more money by acting on indirect costs and losses, i.e. the impact of maintenance on the business. But: where and how? This is the question we can answer.
The Chinese market, in which our team has been active for over 20 years, presents its specificities. Its modern-time industrial development has long prioritized new construction, capacity expansion, rather than maintenance: the entire supply chain, including design institutes, contractors, equipment suppliers, service companies, the education system etc. was aligned accordingly. In the past few years, official studies have shown that most industrial accidents, safety and environmental problems were caused by technical management mistakes at either working level or top management. Similarly, authorities have identified higher lifecycle cost, in particular due to fast aging (early replacement) or equipment, in public facilities. This has prompted the Chinese government to increase regulatory pressure, a phenomenon that all companies operating in China have observed, and to generally promote a more risk-based approach to technical management.
Based on a unique experience combining both industrial maintenance expertise and consulting project in the past 20 years in China, Siveco China has developed a proven maintenance assessment methodology: an approach that has delivered results for many facility owners and operators in China.
The assessments are designed to answer such questions as:
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The assessment is designed to address the company's strategy and top concerns, in line with ISO 55000 Asset Management standard, while adopting a very open wide-angle approach to ensure unknown issues can be identifies.