--- title: "Automotive Focused Improvement Case Study" description: "A leading South African automotive manufacturer used Pragma's Focused Improvement approach to tackle a high equipment failure rate. See the results." image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/resources.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/resource/client-reference-manufacturing-focused-improvement-project-addressing-high-failure-rate-of-equipment/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/resource/client-reference-manufacturing-focused-improvement-project-addressing-high-failure-rate-of-equipment/.md last_converted: 2026-10-07T19:41:32.996Z --- # Client Reference | Manufacturing | Focused Improvement project addressing high failure rate of equipment August 1, 2019Our client is a leading automotive manufacturer in South Africa. The client embarked on a journey to implement an asset management system based on the Pragma Way. One part of that system is Focused Improvement and structured problem-solving Download case study ##### More content ##### Reference story | Packaging | Maintenance plans The biggest benefit of this focused improvement project is the reduction in claims placed by... Find out more ##### Case Study | Oil and Gas Retail | Shell | Facilities Management Centre Pragma and Shell’s longstanding asset management partnership has resulted in 80% downtime reduction on fuel... Find out more ##### Case Study | OEM | MacAdams | AMIP Without Pragma’s involvement, we would only have been able to come up with 10% of... Find out more ##### Municipality | Fleet Management on SAP® PM Improved Water and Sanitation Fleet Services management results in improved vehicle availability and reliability. Find out more ##### Client Reference | Facilities Retail | Maintenance Budget Management Our client managed their operational budgets reactively using spreadsheets. It created a lot of manual... Find out more ##### Mining | Mobile work management Since the roll-out of the application, it has made it much easier to measure work... Find out more ##### Chicken processing equipment | After sales For Meyn, it is important to have a trustworthy single view on our Installed Base... Find out more ##### Client Reference | Oil and Gas Petrochemical Plant | Equipment Maintenance Strategies Pragma facilitated the successful development of equipment maintenance strategies and tactics, helped convert them into... Find out more ##### Case Study | OEM Packaging | Sidel | Asset Management Improvement Assessment Pragma’s consultants assessed the maturity of our organisation in a structured manner. The output was... Find out more ##### Reference story | Fast foods | Increase statutory SLA’s Since the implementation of the initiative, the statutory SLA for work orders completed increased from... Find out more