Category: News articles
Condition monitoring integral to Sasol minings success
August 31, 2012
Collen Williams, Manager Conditioning Monitoring of Sasol Mining, will be one of the speakers at this year’s Physical Asset Management Conference. He will share his knowledge and skills of the condition monitoring department, which forms an integral part of Sasol Mining’s predictive and proactive maintenance strategy. Sasol Mining in South Africa is a division of […]
Companies awarded for quality asset management practices Tetra Pak wins overall CEO award
A number of top South African and international companies were presented with awards for their exceptional physical asset management practices at the annual Pragma Client Awards function on 9 June 2011 at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West. The overall CEO Award was presented to Tetra Pak, a global packaging company, for successfully implementing […]
Cape Town Electricity Department scoops productivity award with ACC
The City’s Electricity Department’s Technical Support Services Branch is the first municipal entity with a division to win the annual national productivity award for the public sector. The winners of this year’s National Productivity Awards were announced in Johannesburg on Friday 30 October 2009. Organised by Productivity SA, the annual awards recognise organisations that have […]
Can maintenance activities save Mother Earth
Whilst claiming that we can “save mother earth” is a long shot as some environmental damage is irreversible, we as the asset management and maintenance workforce can definitely claim that we contribute to sustaining and wisely utilising the remaining resources and the environment. The importance of our industry’s contribution to this cause cannot be emphasised […]
Blind adventurer Hein Wagner to take on epic race with Pragmas Gerrie Olivier as pilot
Blind adventurer and motivational speaker Hein Wagner will take on next year’s Absa Cape Epic with experienced cyclist Gerrie Olivier as Team Pragma Beyond Vision. It will be the first time in history that a blind person participates in this extreme endurance event. Gerrie Olivier, Managing Director of Pragma Acuity and four-time Absa Cape Epic […]
Auditor general gives Uthungulu district municipality asset register the all clear
uThungulu District Municipality was given an unqualified report for the 2008/2009 financial year, with some recommendations for improvement in future years. The Auditor General required all High Capacity Municipalities throughout South Africa to comply with the new GRAP accounting standards by 30 June this year. For many municipalities this posed a huge problem as they […]
2012 Pragma clean audits for municipalities
August 28, 2012
Pragma CEO comments on clean audits for only 13 municipalities Adriaan Scheeres offers some solutions Auditor-General Terence Nombembe has called on the government to take tough action against municipalities, which fail to keep their finances in order. Nombembe said last week that many municipalities were not implementing steps for proper financial controls and that they […]
2012 Pragma Awards
Top Companies Awarded For Asset Management Maturity City of Cape Town wins overall and gold award at Pragma Client Awards A number of top South African and international companies were presented with awards for their exceptional physical asset management practices at the annual Pragma Awards function held last night (14 August 2012) at the Birchwood […]
Aquarius Platinum
July 31, 2012
On a cold Highveld morning a dedicated Pragma engineer sets out at 03:00 from Johannesburg. The quest: an AMIP assessment at Aquarius Platinum Everest Mine. Arriving at 07:00 at the mine, the frost is still thick on the ground and he is just in time to catch the morning production meeting. Thereafter there is a […]
Academy courses aligned to PAS 55 and outcomes based training
To ensure continued service excellence, Corné Kleyn, Manager of the Pragma Africa Academy, embarked on a process of upgrading all the course material. With the global focus on aligning physical asset management practices with PAS-55 (which is recognised as the world standard on physical asset management), Pragma set about aligning all its Business Processes to […]
