Category: News articles
Pragma sponsors its first ladies cycling team with riders Hanlie Booyens and Sharon Laws
December 10, 2012
Sharon Laws left and Hanlie Booyens right Pragma is usually associated with the bike wash and sponsoring male and mixed cycling teams at the Epic. This year, we are adding some flavour to the mix and will be sponsoring team Pragma Volcan Ladies. Hanlie Booyens and Sharon Laws are both competitive and seasoned riders and […]
Pragma wins prestigious Shell Batho Pele Award
Batho Pele Award Physical asset management company, Pragma, walked away with top honours at the recent prestigious Shell Batho Pele Awards, acknowledging the company’s outstanding Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) performance in the Shell retail network in South Africa. The Shell Retail and Pragma team of Ronnie Taljaard, Edna Jackson, Andre Cloete, Haroon Coovadia, […]
Supreme poultry UCW Petra Diamonds
Centralised EAM system for Supreme Poultry Supreme Poultry has taken a leap forward in their asset management practices. They have contracted with Pragma Products for the implementation of On Key on a single data base to have centralised standards and control between their three abattoirs in Botshabelo, Tigane and Mafikeng. On Key implementation commenced in […]
Pragma staff exchange a fancy wine and dine for community service
December 7, 2012
As part of Pragma’s dedication to embrace Corporate Social Investment, a companywide initiative, Pragma Cares, was launched at the beginning of 2012. During the year, we were involved with several projects where various communities benefited from the initiative. To involve all staff members, CEO, Adriaan Scheeres proposed that employees consider exchanging their annual year end […]
Shutdown planning important at end of year
December 5, 2012
Pragma offers some valuable advice A shutdown often has a significant impact on the production capacity and cash flow of a business during the shutdown period, and depending on market conditions and demand for the product, can result in a substantial loss of revenue. Says Stefan Swanepoel, Associate Consultant at Pragma: “Shutdowns also account for […]
Tiger Brands announcement
September 26, 2012
Partnership Announcement The Tiger Brands Foundation has announced its first corporate funding for its schools feeding programme. Physical asset management company, Pragma, has committed to fund the project over the next two years to provide in-school breakfasts to 323 vulnerable learners daily. Pragma has shared a long history with Tiger Brands by providing computerised asset […]
Your MRO warehouse will benefit from the warehousing BP
September 17, 2012
Pragma Products is making good inroads into formalising Pragma’s original methodology and 20 years of experience in Physical Asset Management into business processes (BPs). The sixth and latest business process is Warehousing which was released in December 2009. The purpose of this business process is to administer and control a warehouse of maintenance, repair and […]
Woestalleen Coal Mine turns to business processes 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. In May, the implementation of the Asset Register Administration BusProc, Work Planning and Control […]
Ultrasound signals the maintenance tool of sharp shooters
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 […]
