Maanshan foundry plant to improve maintenance with COSWIN

The foundry, 100% owned by the world's largest manufacturer of ductile iron pipes Saint-Gobain Pipelines, is the third factory to come online with COSWIN Maintenance Management System at the group's manufacturing base located in Maanshan city, Anhui province, China. The foundry started operation in 2004, producing iron fittings of nominal diameter from 80 mm to 300 mm, with a capacity of 8000 tons per year. The plant employs 350 staff.

 

Maanshan foundry plant

 
On June 3, 2009, a joint Saint-Gobain and Siveco team uploaded the plant's technical database to the system, covering over 800 systems and machines, with all related maintenance information (structures, documentation, preventive maintenance plans, spare parts lists). The entire asset base of the company in Maanshan, representing a capital investment of over 100 millions Euros and more than 1,400 employees, is now managed using COSWIN.

 
The cooperation between Saint-Gobain Pipelines and Siveco China started in late 2006, during the construction of the company's iron-making plant. Siveco was hired to build the plant technical database and to ensure that failures were systematically recorded from the commissioning phase. In 2008, a central maintenance management team was setup to support all Saint-Gobain plants in Maanshan and a modernization project was launched in the main plant, producing iron pipes. As part of this project, COSWIN was rolled out in less than 2 months, during the busy start-up period, to support a more reliability-focused maintenance approach. The foundry, now also using COSWIN, is using it to further improve its productivity: by enforcing a systematic recording of failures and work done, a historical database is being built, enabling optimal management decisions based on technical-financial analysis, for example decisions as to the job frequency, design changes, suppliers change etc.

 
About Saint Gobain Pipelines

Saint-Gobain Pipelines (www.saint-gobain.com.cn), the pipe network branch of the Saint-Gobain Group, is the Worlds' leading manufacturer and exporter of ductile iron pipeline systems. More than 115 Countries, 1000 cities around the world, approximately 100 of which are capitals, are equipped with Saint-Gobain pipeline systems which include pipes, fittings, valves, fire hydrants etc. Established in 1997, Saint-Gobain Pipelines (China) owns plants located in Maanshan city, Anhui Province and Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, producing ductile iron pipes & fitting from 100mm to 1000mm, with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year.

 
About Siveco China

 
Siveco is the number one supplier of Facility Management (FM) and Maintenance Management Systems (MMS, also known as EAM) in Europe with around 82,000 users in over 60 countries. Siveco works with industry-leading customers in the manufacturing, infrastructure, and facility management markets. By implementing innovative management solutions, the company assists facility owners (and their service suppliers) in optimizing the utilization of their assets and reducing their operation costs, while improving safety and ensuring regulatory compliance. Siveco GROUP was founded in 1986, with headquarters in Paris and global R&D in Montpellier, South of France. Global customers include the world's largest utility EDF, GDF Suez Group, Danone, Greek Olympic Facilities, Singapore Metro, etc. Siveco China was set up at the end of 2004 in Shanghai, with already over 30 references including Beijing Oriental Plaza, Saint-Gobain, Ikea, ArjoWiggins Chenming Paper, Danfoss, etc.

 
Siveco China website: www.sivecochina.com