MechChem Africa September-October 2024

Scott Gibson, the newly appointed CEO of Pragma, South Africa’s enterprise asset management specialist, sees strength in Pragma’s globally recognised On Key software platform, which he says can compete with world leading competitors such as SAP. Pragma’s world-class On Key EAM solution

“P ragma’s roots are in engineer ing consulting solutions. With over 200 engineers dedicated to enterprise asset manage ment, Pragma’s software competes comfort ably with the world’s top brands, such as SAP, Maximo and IFS Ultimo. I plan to use my experience growing software businesses to help Pragma achieve its international expan sion goals,” says the newly appointed CEO of Pragma, Scott Gibson, who has a proven track record from leading Dimension Data’s global digital practice and as CEO of the Britehouse Group. An industrial technology business head quartered in South Africa, Pragma has enter prise clients in 46 countries, where it helps industrial businesses to maximise their return on asset investments by supporting highly functional and reliable operations. The company’s specialised, home-grown solutions include consulting services, busi ness process managed services, training and a computerised maintenance management platform.

On Key: designed by engineers for engineers Pragma’s locally designed software platform, On Key, has been used by a multinational food packaging and processing company for more than 14 years. To date, it has generated over 2.7-million work orders to keep its assets in 172 countries in pristine condition. Other large operations using Pragma’s platform and services include Tetra Pak, Shell, Astron, Bell, Fair Cape Dairies and Massmart. On Key is a world-class enterprise asset man agement (EAM) system that offers a suite of software applications to assist asset-intensive organisations to manage their physical assets across their entire life cycle. This includes planning and scheduling main tenance work, managing maintenance activi ties, repairing and operating inventory items, tracking life cycle costs, analysing failures, managing the maintenance workforce, and more.

The On Key EAM platform To elevate maintenance management to a holistic and integrated asset management system that facilitates informed decision making through credible, real-time informa tion, the core On Key EAM system is extended through four dedicated supporting platforms: • On Key Insights is a set of business intel ligence apps that produces information to help make decisions, when needed, in the form of standard or customised reports. On Key Action focuses on streamlining maintenance work processes. Web based and offline mobile apps are used to optimise, automate and simplify maintenance activities. On Key Integrate enables standardised system-to-system integration solu • •

Pragma’s locally designed software platform, On Key, is widely used by multinational food packaging and processing companies.

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