Category: News articles

Ultrasound signals the maintenance tool of sharp shooters

September 17, 2012

Tommy Roes, SDT Product Manager at Martec, will be one of the speakers at this year’s Physical Asset Management Conference. Roes is responsible for the SDT and Ultrasound related side of the Martec business profile in which he helps companies to improve their equipment reliability and profitability through various programmes consisting of ultrasonic detection technology. […]

Tony Azevedo joins the products business development team

Tony Azevedo has been appointed to the Pragma Products business development team, supporting Marthinus Burger in the Western and Eastern Cape, as well as some of the southern African countries. Tony, who has a lifelong background in sales and is fluent in Portuguese, joined Products in January this year. He underwent intensive training in preparation […]

The upside of the downturn

The upside of the downturn, and how it will affect your physical assets It is said that every dark cloud has a silver lining. Recessions, while painful, are an important part of the natural order. They help to shake out the excesses that tend to occur during the boom times, and refocuses companies on productivity […]

The ACC optimising hightech equipment at Etlin

Etlin, a company involved in food processing in the Durban region, will take on the ACC service to maintain their high-tech stainless steel equipment in their new processing plant. Apart from assisting with general asset management functions, the ACC will assist Etlin in compliance with HACCP and other standards associated with the industry. A total […]

The 2011 ABSA Cape Epic an epic journey in the true sense for Team Pragma

Team Pragma, who will be participating in the 2011 ABSA Cape Epic mountain bike race, will truly commence on an Epic Journey. Gerrie Olivier, Pragma’s most experienced and daring (maybe crazy at times) cyclist has invited Hein Wagner, adventurer and motivational speaker, to be his partner. If you know who Hein is, you have already […]

Stretching the CMMS boundaries with On Key 5 and Dirk Janse van Rensburg

The scope of a Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) is, and always has been, a popular topic of debate among asset management practitioners. Traditionally it was recognised as the information system accountable for maintenance work management. Dirk Janse van Rensburg, head of Pragma’s product development division, will be addressing the positioning of a CMMS in […]

Smith of American Company gpallied to speak at this years PAMTLconference

Ricky Smith, who has more than 30 years experience in maintenance as a maintenance manager, supervisor, engineer, training specialist and consultant, is a well known published author and works as Senior Technical Advisor for GPAllied. He will be one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Physical Asset Management Conference, presented by Pragma. The conference […]

Sleep easy at Netcare

Late in 2009 Netcare embarked on a process of implementing a SAP PM pilot site. The stakes were high: fit in to the SAP IHS (ERP) implementation or your project is canned. Peter Schilder, group technical manager of the Netcare group immediately engaged Pragma, having learnt our ways at Medi-clinic. The implementation process was too […]

Shell Retail and commercial growing their relationship with Pragma

Over the years Pragma has become an integral part of the Shell family. Our partnership, dating back to April 2006, has recently been reconfirmed and the contract extended with more responsibility being passed on to Pragma as from 1 April 2011. The Facilities Maintenance contract (FMC) for the Retail and Commercial Fuel sites in RSA, […]

Saldanha Bay Municipality appoints Pragma Africa as its physical asset management partner

After putting out a tender in April this year for an asset management system, training on the system and an access control system, Saldanha Bay Municipality announced that the contract has been awarded to Pragma Africa. To date, Saldanha Bay Municipality (which includes Vredenburg, Paternoster, Langebaan, St Helena Bay, Jacobs Bay, Hopefield and Saldanha) did […]