Tag: Industry 4.0
Predictive precision: How condition monitoring transforms maintenance strategies in Industry 4.0
October 5, 2023
Authors | Matt Bridger and Scheepers Schoeman Decoding Industry 4.0: The rise of condition monitoring The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is marked by integrating digital technologies into industrial processes, reshaping the asset management environment. This integration has opened up new opportunities for organisations to increase efficiency and productivity, with condition monitoring emerging as […]
Pragma | 30 Years in the making
July 15, 2020
2020 might forever be known as the year in which Covid 19 struck, but life goes on despite this and many other challenges that businesses face. It is with this mindset, that we take a look back at an engineering firm that was born on the first of June 1990. “Politically South Africa was in […]
Industry 4.0 technologies are driving efficiencies in asset management
March 5, 2020
Industry 4.0 has many advantages and different applications in different industries. For maintenance management, the On Key EAM system enables asset owners to create a digital twin to know precisely where their assets are, what type of assets they have and their asset value.
Competence in an ever-changing asset environment
December 3, 2019
How many times has it been said that people are our most valuable assets? Typically, we think of assets as items that are of value to an organisation – but without people, the value of physical assets is seldom realised. We need to take a look at the impact of Industry 4.0, the spread of […]
Customised customer maintenance contracts, an emerging theme from OEM roundtable workshop
April 15, 2019
A key theme that Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) face is the concept of customer-specific customisation to serve the purposes of customer maintenance contracts. This was one of the elements that emerged during a roundtable workshop that Pragma hosted at their Maarssen office in the Netherlands on 20 March 2019. Henk Wynjeterp, Pragma General Manager, hosted five […]
Developing a digitisation road map
February 20, 2018
We stand at the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitisation should be high on the agenda of organisations that strive to remain relevant and competitive. In this fourth industrial revolution, we must embrace a range of new technologies that combine the physical, digital and biological worlds. This cyber-physical world, where the management of […]
Learning 4.0 is here and we should be excited!
December 13, 2017
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X. With the dawning of Learning 4.0, this powerful statement is now more relevant than ever before. Before we unpack what Learning 4.0 is, let’s step back in time and watch how this learning evolution unfolded. […]
Maintenance, IoT and Industry 4.0
November 29, 2017
Mario Kuisis of Martec talks about the implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 and why maintenance professionals need to sit up and take notice. IoT and Industry 4.0 are creating a stir, in fact, quite a stir. You might be asking, what’s all the fuss and hype about? Is it another one […]
Investing in data for your organisation’s future
September 29, 2017
We interview Stefan Swanepoel, Pragma’s Enterprise Asset Management Product Manager, to learn more about the importance of data. The future is here, are you ready or will you fall into obsolescence?
