Mining and minerals
The mining industry is facing unprecedented challenges, from decreased commodity prices to an ever more complex operating environment. In this milieu, sustainability requires a stringent focus on physical assets. By containing production costs and keeping an eye to operational excellence, companies can reduce strain on their financial reserves.
Further to this, mineworker fatalities are becoming a keen focus area for stakeholders such as the local government, investors and mine operators alike. Engineered controls and the smart application of technology offer unprecedented potential to prevent the failure of safety barriers that are linked to physical assets and facilities. Considering our integrated approach to asset management, stakeholder health, safety and security, as well as environmental considerations, are aptly incorporated into our business model and as such our business processes and asset management offering are designed with HSSE as a key component of the value proposition.
This is where Pragma can help. Our offering, first introduced in 1990, includes asset management business processes, training material, tools and consulting capability, positioning us as a partner of choice for mining houses of all sizes. Implement our entire spectrum of services or select a specific solution to answer your precise needs; either way, you will benefit from improved performance, reduced costs and enhanced risk management.
Our people and expertise makes the difference
Our specialist asset care team comprises of maintenance engineering consultants, reliability engineers, condition monitoring specialists and maintenance planning and scheduling advisors, that are well versed in the very latest industry techniques and principles.
Business processes and best practices
We’ve developed our repository of asset-related IP, specific to the mining industry, over more than two decades. With this knowledge and our engineers’ asset management expertise, we’re geared to design custom processes and implement methodologies tailored to your asset management needs.
Pragma’s Asset Management Improvement Planning (AMIP) framework provides a structured environment in which we help you define your ideal AM state, assess your current status and identify the gaps between the two. The outcome of this AM maturity assessment can be regarded as the key input to any mining company’s asset management strategy, policy and improvement road map. We’ll assess you against best practice AM KPIs and mining industry benchmark results from our previous assessments database.
EAM software, IIoT, digitisation solutions
Our services and solutions can be delivered on a range of information systems to provide mining organisations with the information they need to manage, analyse and improve performance and guide decision making. Mining organisations, interested in a fit-for-purpose, best-of-breed EAM system or CMMS, can invest in On Key, a system-agnostic EAMS with mobile apps, designed by our engineers who understand the challenges of ensuring the effective delivery of maintenance tasks or work to facilitate improved asset reliability.
Are you planning on embarking on a digitisation journey? We are IoT.nxt agents and can assist our mining clients with IIoT enablement from start to finish at any maturity level. Our rule of thumb is always ensuring that the investment in these products and services are practical and in line with organisational expectations. You’ll have access to real-time data of your mining operations as well as being notified when any values exceed thresholds. The IIoT data can be blended with historical and aggregated data in our On Key Insights platform, a business intelligence platform built to digest and transform data from a variety of AM information sources, to perform trend analyses and to improve process designs.
