Technology

The outsourced asset care service – is this a panacea for the struggling maintenance departments of small to medium-sized enterprises?

June 15, 2022

Proper and consistent maintenance can make or break businesses. The headline in a local newspaper, Business Day – dated 13/06/2022, reads “Poor performance and degradation of rail and port infrastructure have seen SA’s coal exports drop 20% from about 80 million tonnes in 2017 to about 64 million tonnes in 2021”. All around us we […]

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How to Achieve Solution-Based EAM System Integration | Yes, it is Possible!

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 […]

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Massmart’s approach to digitising its facility and asset management practices secures them the prestigious 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 […]

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Increase efficiency and save millions | Combine your facilities and asset management functions

December 2, 2020

Julia Phala, Head of Sales and Client Relation Management Are you a manufacturing business struggling to contain the cost of production and upkeep of your physical assets such as buildings and equipment? In challenging economic circumstances, such organisations are usually under pressure to save costs to meet bottom-lines. Traditionally asset management and facilities management are […]

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Pragma firming up its use of technology | from IIoT sensors to blended learning

April 5, 2019

Pragma’s R&D and Academy teams have been hard at work to deliver digitally transformed asset management and training services. In response to industry requirements, we have made sure that the latest additions to the Pragma range of solutions tap into the endless possibilities that emerging technologies provide. On Key 5 modifications Apart from valuable modifications […]

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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 […]

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Pragma and Semiotic Labs work together to advance smart maintenance

December 18, 2017

On December 15th, the companies signed an agreement for the development of services that prevent unplanned downtime of industrial equipment. Semiotic Labs provides a solution that predicts when and why electric motors and rotating equipment fail. Pragma integrates this solution with its On Key EAM and Asset Management services offering. In this way, clients are […]

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The IoT enables a vast array of sensing and data gathering devices to be installed, connected and set up at low cost by non-specialist staff with a standardised communication network and data analysis tools.

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 […]

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