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Pragma's value-add verified
 I am proud that I can say that the value-add that my company delivers, result in success for our clients.
This was once again demonstrated at the regional Productivity SA Awards (Western Cape) when our clients stood out amongst the other participants. Fair Cape Dairies where awarded the first prize in the Corporate Sector and Sonnendal Dairies, went through to the finals.
In the Public Sector category, Mossie Mostert from Electrical Support Services, City of Cape Town (2009 regional and national winner) announced the 2010 winner. Mr Mostert did not only mention Pragma as their partner, but also gave tremendous praise to Pragma during his speech.
With each and every intervention that I have with a CEO or MD of a company, the question, “What does Pragma do and how can they add value to our organisation?” is directed to me,
My 30 seconds elevator speech “we improve the performance of physical assets” is usually followed by a counter question, “Will your organisation be able to operate with unreliable assets and down time in access of 20%?”
What a CEO or MD of a company want, is peace of mind. The assurance that his assets are performing optimally, that he can deliver on his production or service promise and that this is done within budget at minimal risk. This can obviously only be achieved with a clear strategy supported by business processes and best practices in place.
Our mentioned clients can definitely attest to this peace of mind.
As a final word, allow me to congratulate Fair Cape and Sonnendal Dairies, as well as the Pragma teams involved, on this outstanding performance. Fair Cape, all the best for the coming national awards.
CEO Adriaan Scheeres
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Feature Articles
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Pragma turns 20!
On the 4th of June 2010, Pragma celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Hard work, innovation and a dedicated team have been the underlying factors in Pragma's
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Woestalleen Coal Mine turns to
business process to improve production throughput
The new management team
at the Woestalleen Coal Mine found the production output at the mine unsatisfactory. They
decided to take action and turned to Pragma Products to implement business processes in
support of the On Key enterprise asset management system. |
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Aquarius
Platinum
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 series of interviews
and then a consensus mapping in the afternoon. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do
it. |
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Delmas
Coal
Pragma Africa has been busy for almost two months at Delmas Coal
implementing the new ACC. The Asset Management Charter and Standards Manual are almost
complete and the first of the Pragma staff started work at Delmas on the 1st of
June. |
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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
important to make any mistakes and system support and decision making was an important part
of the process. |
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Pragma partners with SCS Telecoms to target the telecoms
market
In mid 2009 Pragma commenced discussions with the Space Commercial
Services (SCS) group of companies, which is headed up by Dr Sias Mostert. This followed on
from the interaction with Sias in 2008, when he presented the keynote address in the annual
AMTL conference on the Extreme Reliability of Sunspace Satellites . |
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