--- title: "Maintenance Archives" description: "Maintenance" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/maintenance/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/maintenance/.md last_converted: 2026-10-30T06:49:36.240Z --- # Tag: Maintenance ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags AIV Asset Identification and verification Contractor Management Critical Assets Maintenance Tactics Massmart On Key's Asset Register Retail Retail Sector Retailer Stock levels Maintenance On Key ##### Determining optimal staffing for maintenance departments October 12, 2021 By Philip Hanekom, Associate Consultant at Pragma Africa Any Asset Management (AM) system either fails or succeeds because of people. Competence, process discipline and capacity are key, and without these fundamentals, in place, any system is bound to be ineffective. This article will focus on capacity, but first, let’s take a quick look at the [...] ##### Tags Asset Replacement Value Load Balancing Maintenance Workload Planned Utilisation Plant operating model Resource Planning Tactical Maintenance Wrench Time Asset Management Maintenance ##### An insight into Maintenance Work Management July 12, 2021 Pragma Academy Subject Matter Expert Tim Beavon I have been working in the asset and maintenance management fields my entire professional life. It has always astounded me that organisations continually appear to feel frustrated at their organisation’s inability to get the maintenance planning office “right”. In this article, I will endeavour to convince you that, [...] ##### Tags Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Maintenance Supervisor Maintenance Work Management Planner Scheduler Asset Management Maintenance Maintenance management ##### A quick review of existing maintenance concepts May 11, 2021 Most capital-intensive organisations have years of experience in performing preventive maintenance on installations, systems and physical assets. In every industry, specific standards, legislation, rules, and points of attention are taken into account when performing maintenance. However, these aspects can change. Modifications also take place, and installation parts no longer fulfil a function during the life [...] ##### Tags Asset Manager Asset Owner Asset Type Cluster Components Economically Profitable Failure Analysis Functioanl Decomposition Functional Analysis Maintenance Concepts Optimisation Preventive Maintenance Quality Quick Review Risk Reduction Sustainable Asset Management Data Analysis Enterprise Asset Management implementation life cycle Machine Maintenance Physical Assets Pragma ##### Combine Facilities & Asset Management to Save Millions 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 [...] ##### Tags Asset Managemen Bottomline Buildings Business Processes Cost of Production Facility Integration Julia Phala Operational Efficiences Processess Productivity Savings Assets Equipment Facilities Management Maintenance Manufacturing People Physical Asset Management Technology Work Planning and Control ##### Mind shifts save money | Reducing general maintenance costs in retail July 10, 2020 By Morné Steenkamp Irrespective of your business or work environment, poor decision making often comes back to bite you. When talking about maintenance, it is something that could result in significant damage, costing the business dearly. How can we facilitate better decision making at ground level to prevent potential failures and save some money? The [...] ##### Tags Branch Manager Budget Electrical Environment General Maintenance Insourcing Lower Priority Work Money Morne Steenkamp Operational Organisation Retail Saving Stock Management Maintenance ##### 10 Maintenance Tips for Lockdown May 25, 2020 With many countries currently in some form of forced lockdown, a number of businesses have been forced to shut down their operations for an uncertain time period. Many organisations can lock their front door and go home, working remotely to continue their activities. Others in asset-intensive industries like mining, manufacturing or utilities do not have [...] ##### Tags Casey Wolters Covid-19 Covid-19 Lockdown Equipment heating HVAC system Maintenance maintenance tips Manufacturing Mining Shutdown ##### Data investment: Start now for future gains September 20, 2019 Is the present you looking after the future you? Fundamentally, this is what investment in data now means for your business in the future. Consider what could happen if one of the sensors on a critical asset fails without anybody noticing. It could result in a catastrophe when an ageing transformer explodes due to overheating, [...] ##### Tags asset condition Data data processing disruptive Enterprise Asset Management innovation investment investment in data Maintenance Maintenance management ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags challenges in developing OEM maintenance plans Contracts Customised Customer Equipment specification customisation Henk Wynjeterp Industry 4.0 Maintenance Maintenance task customisation OMM game Optimum Maintenance Mix game ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags Algorithms Asset Management Big Data Business Capex budget Cloud Computing Communication Connected Data Analysis Enterprise Industrial Internet of Things Industry 4.0 Internet of Things ITU process Maintenance Manufacturing Monitoring Phone. Predictive Techniques Reliability Engineer Standardisation Technology Wireless Data