Tag: Enterprise Asset Management
You can’t digitise chaos: Building a smarter campus
October 22, 2026
A smart campus sounds like a technology project. In practice, it is an operating maturity project. Across engineering, maintenance, facilities contracts and improvement programmes, I have repeatedly seen the same pattern: organisations invest in new technology before establishing a dependable view of their assets, processes and responsibilities. The technology may be capable, but it ends […]
Asset Management Masterclass: Strategic training for leaders driving performance, reliability and results
November 21, 2025
Author | Karen Greyling – Business Development Manager In asset-intensive industries, leaders are under growing pressure to improve performance, optimise costs, and manage risk, all while meeting global standards such as ISO 55000. Too often, however, asset management initiatives remain fragmented, struggle for executive buy-in, and fail to deliver sustainable results. The Pragma Asset Management […]
Solution-Based Enterprise Asset Management Integration
May 11, 2022
In a recent webinar on clarifying solution-based EAM system integration, members of Pragma’s On Key team laid out several facts that businesses need to consider in order to achieve successful integration. Dirk Janse van Rensburg, Managing Director of On Key Software Solutions, highlighted one of the primary drivers, which is that integration is imperative if […]
Is Easy Repair Request Logging Key to Better Uptime?
July 14, 2021
The right tools, appropriate systems and accurate data could make a considerable impact on the ease and speed at which equipment is repaired in your organisation. Verdantix’s latest research (Verdantix, December 2020, Global Corporate Survey 2020: Operational Excellence Budgets, Priorities & Tech Preferences) suggests that: the Covid-19 pandemic is driving organisations worldwide to invest more […]
A quick review of existing maintenance concepts
May 11, 2021
Most capital-intensive organisations have years of experience in performing preventive maintenance on installations, systems and physical assets. In every industry, specific standards, legislation, rules, and points of attention are taken into account when performing maintenance. However, these aspects can change. Modifications also take place, and installation parts no longer fulfil a function during the life […]
Massmart Wins 2021 SAFMA Award for Technology
April 22, 2021
Helgard Pienaar, Solutions Specialist Massmart’s shareholders and customers have good reason to celebrate yet another success with the facilities management team involved in achieving the 2021 SAFMA Award for Technology. The national retailer’s commitment to digitise their facility and asset management processes and workflow has reaped a 25% increase in workflow efficiency across their 400 […]
Proactive Enterprise Asset Management & Human Potential
December 2, 2020
An opinion piece by Kolosa Madikizela, Managing Director Pragma Enterprise asset management Proactive enterprise asset management is more than just infrastructure and equipment. As humans, we drive the cultural values and behaviour needed to implement maintenance strategies and action the activities required for peak asset performance. Yet, the role humans play in proactive enterprise asset […]
Centralised Enterprise Asset Management Systems
November 24, 2020
The case for having a reliability centred maintenance approach has been proven time and time again. Yet, it is one of the most significant physical asset management challenges facing large, diversified organisations today. By sticking to best practices and getting the foundations of asset management in place, RCL Foods has managed to overcome this challenge. […]
Infrastructure Asset Performance in Southern Africa
October 19, 2020
An opinion piece by Kolosa Madikizela, Managing Director Pragma The economic landscape in Southern Africa has been on a downward spiral. Even South Africa has lost its status as Africa’s biggest economy, falling behind Nigeria at the end of 2019. This downward trend is severely impacting communities. As citizens, we have seen and been affected […]
Massmart Wins SAAMA Project Achievement Award 2020
September 9, 2020
A clear vision and decisive decision-making clinched Massmart the coveted SAAMA Project Achievement Award 2020 for the successful implementation of Pragma’s enterprise asset management system, On Key. Successfully implementing and managing over 300 stores currently, is a significant achievement. “The goal was to implement an enterprise asset management system that would provide Massmart with a […]
