Category: News articles

SAMCO grows with Pragma’s support

June 30, 2016

The South African Maintenance Company (SAMCO), a young and energetic company which provides general maintenance service to the petroleum industry via Pragma South Africa, has grown from only two to a workforce of ten employees servicing three regions across South Africa, including Gauteng, the Western and Eastern Cape. According to Edna Jackson, Business Area Manager, […]

Physical Asset Management Company scores for Enterprise Development

June 29, 2016

Leading physical asset management company, Pragma, has achieved a Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) rating. The company, which was founded 26 years ago in South Africa, scored close to full marks for preferential procurement and enterprise development and qualified as an Empowering Supplier. According to Kolosa Madikizela, Cape Regional Manager, preferential procurement and […]

Pragma announces winners of FMC Awards 2016

Public recognition is one of the best ways to acknowledge engaged employees and contractors for their efforts and dedication in delivering excellence in the workplace. This is exactly what the Shell Facilities Management Contract (FMC) Awards are all about and Pragma’s employees and contractors recently walked away with top honours at a prestigious event hosted […]

Orphan Daniel Frank shines with Pragma bursary

Full credit for Pragma’s Socio Economic Development projects Daniel Frank is a grade 11 student at the prestigious and tradition-rich Paul Roos Gymnasium. Besides excelling in chess – he is a Western Province player and has won several awards – Daniel excels at school, where he stays in residence during the week. His story is […]

Pragma wins Shell Retail Engineering Partner of Choice Award

Leading enterprise asset management company, Pragma, walked away with the 2015 Shell Retail Engineering Partner of Choice award. Says Haroon Coovadia, Shell SA Retail Network Manager: “The award was given to Pragma in recognition of the value add they brought to the Shell business through their efforts by stepping up and assisting us in delivering […]

This is why BBBEE works

April 26, 2016

Leading physical asset management company Pragma achieves Level 1 B-BBEE rating Pragma Africa, a subsidiary of the leading physical asset management company, Pragma, has achieved a Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) rating. Says Attie Nieuwoudt, Managing Director: Pragma Africa: “After securing our Level 2 rating in 2014, we decided it could be improved […]

Is it the software that is not working or is the business process wrong

April 1, 2016

A quick search of the internet for the top reasons that enterprise asset management system (EAMS) implementations fail, reveals a wide range of culprits such as insufficient training, vendor support, scalability, etc. However, you would seldom find the reason that the software does not support the business processes and yet this is one of the […]

Pet Food Manufacturer in Spain selects On Key 5 as EAM

C&D Foods has approved the implementation of On Key 5 as the enterprise asset management (EAM) system for their production plant in Spain. This plant is one of the largest dry pet food production plants on the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in the north-western Spanish plain close to Valladolid in Spain’s largest grain-growing region. […]

How will 3D printing change the face of maintenance

March 4, 2016

One of the biggest challenges that manufacturers face is to strike the balance between lowering spare part stock costs while ensuring uptime of their production equipment. The science of optimal spare part management (SPM) is well documented with many theories and complex software implemented across the globe to try and optimise this conundrum. But what […]

Stijn Wouters introducing spare parts management in South Africa

February 22, 2016

Stijn Wouters, managing consultant of Gordian Logistic Experts South Africa, has a background in operations research and specialised in inventory management, supply chain management and quantitative modelling with a strong focus on spare parts management. Stijn has worked for Gordian Logistic Experts for more than five years, originally in the Netherlands. To name only a […]