Category: News articles
Pragma starts TPM programme implementation at Noble Bioenergia factory
August 28, 2013
In April this year Pragma initiated the implementation of a Total Performance Management (TPM) project at sugar and alcohol factory Noble Bioenergia, a multinational leader in energy, metals, minerals and agriculture. This partnership will last for 18 months in Noble’s group production unit at Catanduva, São Paulo. Luiz Antonio Magazoni, Noble’s Industry Director says, “The […]
Pragma assists NamPower with technical review of four transmission substations
Pragma, supported by Aurecon Energy Services, conducted a technical review of four key transmission substations for NamPower in May and June this year. Says Karl Nepgen, project manager and partner consultant at Pragma: “The purpose of the intervention was to assess the current condition of various operational and asset management areas as specified by the […]
PPC chooses Pragmas On Key over SAP PM
PPC has renewed its contract with leading physical asset management company Pragma for the next two years during which it will be upgraded to the latest version of On Key 5 in June 2014. Says Marthinus Burger, National Project Manager at Pragma: “During this process we’ll support them with custom development by our software team […]
HSSE and Pragmas goal zero
August 27, 2013
With our annual safety week recently concluded, Herman Engelbrecht, HSSE and Facilities Manager, shares how we are on track to making Pragma’s Goal Zero an important part of our culture. There are three reasons why Pragma focuses on HSSE: Firstly, we’re not rehearsing our lives. This is the real thing and we only have one […]
Profile Stefan Swanepoel
June 6, 2013
Thirty-seven-year-old Stefan Swanepoel is an associate consultant at Pragma. He obtained his B. Eng. and M. Eng. Electronic Engineering degrees from the University of Pretoria. Stefan has been with Pragma for almost three years. Prior to joining Pragma, he worked at Gaussian for two and a half years doing asset management, energy optimisation engineering and […]
Excellence in maintenance management the building block for proper asset management
June 4, 2013
In most cases, senior management and asset management specialists will use the words ‘maintenance management’ and ‘asset management’ in the same sentence to refer to the same topic. In actual fact, maintenance management is a subset of asset management. Let’s first look at the definitions of maintenance and asset management as stated in the new […]
Exploring the asset management landscape
The Global Forum Few of you may have heard of the GFMAM or their newly released document, The Asset Management Landscape. It is, however, a forum all maintenance and asset management practitioners should take note of. So let us explore this new geographical phenomenon. GFMAM is the abbreviation for the Global Forum on Maintenance and […]
Take control of your contractors by better managing their service level agreements
Many companies choose to follow the outsourcing route, dealing with an array of contractors on a daily basis. The main reasons for using contractors usually vary between the need for specialised expertise or supplementing a undersized work force due to budget constraints. Although the use of contractors has various advantages, there can be multiple disadvantages […]
Spares optimisation of great importance in physical asset management
Although companies strive towards Zero unplanned Stops (ZupS), breakdowns or accidents are imminent. In order to get the best possible turnaround time from such an incident, companies keep spares on site. Says Nelson Broden, Associate Consultant at Pragma: “The problem is that the spares volumes increase to such a level that they can become a […]
Will your plant benefit from the Focused Improvement business process
Is your asset management programme on track, yet you know that your processes are not fully optimised? Or do you experience continuous breakdowns due to an elusive problem which does not get the required attention? Since Pragma launched the Focused Improvement (FI) business process, we have helped clients to identify problems, eliminate them, and reap […]
