Tag: On Key
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 […]
Pragma partners with Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team to power maintenance excellence
January 27, 2025
Author | Liza Schroeder Pragma is proud to announce its support of the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, a Swiss UCI ProTeam competing at the highest level of road cycling. As part of the partnership, Pragma’s On Key Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS) will be instrumental in managing and streamlining the maintenance of the team’s vehicle […]
Solving Retail Asset Management Challenges
December 10, 2021
Retail branch managers have a broad set of responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities include staff management, keeping optimal stock levels and ensuring that the branch expenditures stay within budget. Ultimately, the retail manager’s responsibility is to create and maintain a welcoming and satisfying experience for customers. Maintenance is part and parcel of this important customer […]
Proactive Infrastructure Maintenance After Civil Unrest
September 30, 2021
Author | Julia Mamakoko, Business Development Executive With an estimated R 50 billion cost to the economy, there is no doubt that the July 2021 civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal, and certain parts of Gauteng, has left South Africa poorer. While more than 300 lives were lost, the excessive looting also resulted in the destruction of infrastructure. […]
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 […]
Massmart Wins Global FM 2021 Award of Excellence
May 25, 2021
What a privilege to congratulate Massmart on achieving the Highly Commended Award of Excellence in FM presented by the Global FM association. Massmart is a well-deserving recipient of this award as they took full ownership of their facilities management journey and achieving their goals. Previous awards Massmart’s accomplishments started in 2020 when they won the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
