SAAMA Conference 2023

The theme for SAAMA 2023 is Asset Management: Pioneering the African Renaissance.

The SAAMA Hybrid Conference was held on 7 & 8 June 2023 at The Southern Sun – Cape Sun in Cape Town, offering both physical and virtual attendance to the SAAMA audience.

The 2-day conference was worth 2 CPD points


 

 

 

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Tim Beavon


Topic: Mastering the Art of Maintenance Management: Bridging the Technical and People Skills Gap for Frontline Managers

Tim is currently employed by Pragma Academy as a Partner Consultant. In this capacity, he is responsible for the development and management of the Maintenance Planner Qualification programme. Tim takes advantage of his 30+ years of experience when developing material for coaching and training people in the field of asset and maintenance management.


Mark Broussard


Topic: Reactivitis: A Chronic Condition of Industry

Mark is the President & CEO of Strategic Asset Management Inc, he has held several positions in industry related to maintenance and reliability, from both design and manufacturing perspectives, for more than fifteen years.  Mark entered management consulting over twenty-three years ago and has created substantial value for clients in upstream oil and gas, mining, metals, and petrochemicals industry verticals. 


Dr Jasper L. Coetzee


Topic: Maintenance auditing for the purposeful Asset Manager

Dr Jasper Coetzee is the founder of AM-Tech, and the principal of the Terotechnica Asset Management College. We develop Physical Asset Management Leaders, and do training in Asset Management and Maintenance principles for people in industry. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering, focussing on Reliability Centred Maintenance, and I am a fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.


Johannes Coetzee


Topic: Moving beyond condition monitoring: Predicting failures before the first signs are detectable

Johannes Coetzee is the MD of Martec (a specialist condition monitoring company) and Chairman of the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM), the umbrella forum for professional associations in the field of maintenance and assets management across the world. He is the past-president of the Southern African Asset Management Association (SAAMA) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. 


Louis Coetzee


Topic: Asset Management Strategy Development: North Africa

Louis is a Professional Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in Construction and Maintenance of large industrial plants and - infrastructure in Africa. He has held senior executive positions at AVENG and REDIS, and is a founding Director at STELO, that provides Maintenance services to industrial clients in Africa. 
 


Willem de Vos


Topic: Optimising Asset Management through Digital Transformation: Overcoming Challenges and Enhancing Operational Efficiency

Willem de Vos, a qualified mechanical engineer, is passionate about simplifying the complexity of asset management, solving problems and putting practical improvements on the table. In his current role as Focused Improvement Engineer for Shell, he works across various departments, projects, operations and HSSE. He gets to challenge himself in defining the real problem and coming up with the best suitable solution that will improve performance, while bringing down costs and mitigating risks for the client. 


Amanda Filtane


Topic: The AIM of BIM : How a structured approach to Digital Project Delivery will support the development of the Asset Information Model

Lecturing in Construction Management at UCT, Amanda is completing her PhD on Construction Business Models. She completed her Master of Philosophy in BIM where she assessed the competencies and maturity levels of practitioners in SA and developed a BIM acceptance model. Her research includes work on the ISO19650 series and its implementation frameworks.


Thomas Fuller


Topic: The AIM of BIM : How a structured approach to Digital Project Delivery will support the development of the Asset Information Model

Thomas' interest lies in green fields development with strong focus on green buildings and sustainable development, investment fundamentals, portfolio resilience, whole-of-life analysis, net zero building performance and reduced embodied carbon construction, aimed at achieving lowest cost of occupation for tenants, best building performance, strong development yield and maximising growth in net operating income.


Joachim Gidiagba


Topic: A Shift in Asset Management Culture in the South African Mining Industry

Gidiagba Osheyor Joachim is a senior lecturer at Terotechnica Asset Management College and a PhD fellow at the University of Johannesburg where he is currently working on solving supplier selection problems for both mining and oil & gas industries. He has over 5 years of experience in Physical Asset Management with major interest in System Reliability, Reliability Centred Maintenance, and Maintenance Logistics.


Philip Hanekom
 

Topic: Unlocking the Hidden Business Value of Assets: The Power of Asset Management Maturity Assessments

Philip is an experienced Asset Management consultant in Pragma's advisory group. With a background in maintenance work management and focused improvement, he has consulted to clients across several industries. Philip specializes in audit and maturity assessment work, with a focus on strategic planning and systems implementation.


Stephan Hodgson


Topic: Asset Management Strategy Development: North Africa

Stephan Hodgson is an industrial and mechanical engineer. Passionate about asset management and Africa, Stephan occupied Maintenance and engineering management positions in large mining companies in DRC and Madagascar before becoming a director at STELO. Stephan thrives on going into the field and helping clients all over Africa realise value from their assets and develop their national teams to sustain their performance while reducing their risk.


Etienne Human
 

Topic: Effective Pump Management: The Technical Importance of the Correct Pump Procurement

Etienne Human studied Electronical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at different universities.  He was a reliability engineer at two different companies, but also hold positions in Technical Maintenance, Technical Auditing, Condition Monitoring and Procurement and Supply.  He gained most of his experience in the Petro-Chemical, Power Generation, Mining and Consulting Environments. 


Andre Jordaan
 

Topic: Unlocking Cost Savings: Optimising Spare Part Inventory Management with Engineering and Asset Management Principles

Andrѐ is Partner Consultant at Pragma, has 20 years’ experience in the industry and has a B.Engineer (Mechanical) and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch. He consults in AM Strategy, focussed improvement, AM training and using financials e.a. to facilitate decision making.  He is married with 2 young kids and loves participating in sport.


Stephan Kornelius


Topic: Unlocking the Hidden Business Value of Assets: The Power of Asset Management Maturity Assessments

Stephan is the Managing Director of Pragma’s Advisory and Academy business unit. He is responsible for all the advisory and training work done with clients, including the AM audit and value delivery projects. His professional background is focussed on the oil, gas, electricity distribution and manufacturing industries.   
 


Julian Lambert
 

Topic: Lighting the Way to Climate Resilience: Facing the Energy Trilemma

Julian is an accomplished sales director with 27 years’ experience in the energy sector and 20 years working in B2B sales. As Copperleaf’s Regional Director for the Middle East, Julian helps organisations optimise asset planning and management to enhance decision making, manage risk, and maximise value.


Joel Leonard


Topic: Overview of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Analysis in The Mining Industry

Joel Leonard is a Reliability Engineering enthusiast, and also an Assist. Lecturer, at the University of Pretoria. With a passion for engineering and a commitment to excellence, Joel has dedicated his career to educating others and advancing the field of mechanical maintenance.
Currently pursuing a master's degree in the Centre for Asset Integrity and Management, department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, Joel has a strong foundation in the technical aspects of engineering. 


Mark Mackenzie


Topic: How Technical Societies Can Support Industry

Mark is a highly qualified and experienced engineer with over thirty-five years’ experience in maintenance, reliability and asset management. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a Certified Fellow of Asset Management who is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia and an Adjunct Associate Professor at UWA.

Mark has worked extensively in Australia and overseas in a variety of roles and industries. He has worked in multinational companies, as well as specialist consulting companies where his technical and leadership advice is keenly sought and received. He regularly presents technical papers and tutorials at national and international conferences.


Richard Matchett
 

Topic: The AIM of BIM : How a structured approach to Digital Project Delivery will support the development of the Asset Information Model

Richard is enrolled in a PhD at Stellenbosch University, focussed on the development of Digital Twins for Roads Infrastructure. He is responsible for Zutari's digital strategy and transformation to adopt modern engineering practises.  He believes that the effective use of information systems and BIM are fundamental enablers to achieving smart infrastructure and buildings solutions.


 

Tebogo Mokwana
 

Topic: Improved Practices in Asset Performance Management at Eskom Transmission

Tebogo Mokwana is a Senior Consultant (Asset Strategy) in Eskom Transmission. He has over 15 years’ experience on asset care regimes that includes the development of maintenance engineering processes and standards, asset health formulation and asset management system development. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Tshwane University of Technology, Master of Science in Technology Management from the University of Pretoria and an Electrical Engineer’s Certificate of Competency. He is a member of ECSA, Cigre and ICMEESA. He has published and presented several papers and articles on asset care regimes.


Kribbs Moodley
 

Topic: Continuous Improvement of Asset Management and Operational Excellence in Asset Management

Kribbs Moodley, is the Advisory Portfolio Director for MPAMOT (Previously Mott MacDonald Africa).
He is a dynamic, innovative, and highly motivated executive leader with a passion to shape strategic direction, assesses needs, planning and managing delivery of infrastructure that improves our society and help communities to prosper and flourish. He also sees himself as trailblazing the convergence of digital technologies and physical infrastructure, as the now and future of engineering decisions will be managed by data. He is excited about growing diverse teams and unlocking Professional Excellences, building innovative thought leadership ideas, digital solutions and sustaining thriving eco-systems. 


Ivan Moonsamy
 

Topic: Lessons learnt from driving asset management improvement at eThekwini Metro Municipality

Asogan Moonsamy (Ivan) is currently employed in the office of Strategic Management at the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality as the Senior Manager: Asset Management. Mr Moonsamy graduated from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal in 2005 with a BSc In Engineering (Civil) and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Prior to joining the eThekwini Municipality Strategy Office team, Mr Moonsamy has worked in various positions at Transnet. These include; the Design Engineer for Bridge and Marine Infrastructure for the Transnet Design Services, the Senior Project Manager for the Transnet National Ports Authority for the Port of Durban and the Senior Design Engineer for Marine Infrastructure for the Transnet Ports Authority Head Office. 
Mr Moonsamy and his team are accountable for the strategic implementation of Asset Management at the eThekwini municipality with the aspiration that the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality aspire to improve its Asset Management maturity and the adoption of Asset Management principles and processes with an ultimate goal of achieving SANS55001 recognition.


Vumile Msweli


Topic: To be confirmed

Vumile is an international speaker and accelerator coach. She has previously worked for reputable multi- national institutions such as Barclays, Investec, Nedbank, First National Bank and Vodafone. Vumile is a Certified Financial Planner; an Operations, Finance and Strategy Specialist in both the telecommunications and finance sectors. She is the CEO of Hesed Consulting (Pty) Ltd, a pan-African Coaching firm with presence in South Africa; Nigeria; Botswana and Rwanda.

Vumile has worked closely with individuals and small businesses to coach them to fast track their trajectory in achieving their goals. She aids to empower people with the skills to excel in their particular environment. She specializes in the following coaching arenas: Business; Executive; Career and Leadership Coaching. Vumile has spoken at conferences; workshops; private corporations; expos; educational institutions; government and Non- Profit Organizations. The services she offers are speaking; facilitation; program director/MC; guest lecturing and training. 


Jan Myburg


Topic: Future Proofing Critical Infrastructure – An International Case Study from England

Jan received most of his formal education from the North-West University and ICS London (mechanical design engineering, business management, business consulting) and Gatesville / Creek Academic Group (integrated physical asset management). 
Jan also passed the very challenging SAAMA SCPP examination as well as the CAAMA / WPiAM auditors’ exam.
He started his career with the design, prototyping and small-batch manufacturing of ultra-precision geological survey instrumentation; and there-after was practically involved with workshop management, planning systems development, budgeting in large and complex environments, as well as fleet management. His early mentor was Dr Jasper Coetzee; who played a large role in Jan’s decision to pursue the formalising and structuring of Asset- and Maintenance Management.
 


Nomaphelo Ndzundzu


Topic: The art of rescue: The role of Asset Management in the circular Economy

Nomaphelo Ndzundzu is a mechanical engineering with 18 years’ experience in physical asset management. An avid storyteller and an aspiring author her mission is to reawaken the spirit of the Renaissance polymaths. Renaissance engineers and scientists were not just engineers or scientists but also philosophers, activists, poets, and artists. Today the complex problems we face such as climate change demand this unlikely combination of skillsets and mental models, the so-called “Medici Effect”, to create innovative, sustainable engineering design responses.


Attie Nieuwoudt
 

Topic: Optimising Asset Management through Digital Transformation: Overcoming Challenges and Enhancing Operational Efficiency

Attie Nieuwoudt is an accomplished Mechanical Engineer with a strong passion for process optimisation and improvement. His expertise in maintenance management tactics and systems has enabled him to spearhead numerous projects focused on driving efficiency and productivity while minimising risks and optimising cost allocation and usage. Attie has been instrumental in Pragma's approach to L3 Contractor Management, standardising SLAs, work management best practices, HSSE standards, and rates for the benefit of several clients.
 


Luke Norman


Topic: Future Proofing Critical Infrastructure – An International Case Study from England

Luke is a Senior Asset Management Consultant based in the UK. Luke has been with Copperleaf for three years during which time he has overseen and participated in the delivery of several successful Copperleaf implementations in the water sector. Luke is passionate about delivering client value with a focus on building positive working relationships. 


Subomi Plumptre
 

Topic: An African Cooperative Renaissance: A case study of continuous improvement in asset management by volition capital investments limited

Subomi Plumptre champions middle class wealth in Africa and the Diaspora. She is the CEO of Volition Cap, a game-changing and SEC licensed asset management firm in Lagos, Nigeria. Subomi believes in innovative approaches to wealth creation and developed an African fund management model using traditional cooperatives.


Prinesan Reddy
 

Topic: Continuous Improvement of Asset Management and Operational Excellence in Asset Management

Prinesan Reddy holds a BSc. Degree in Chemical Engineering and works within MPAMOT’s Technical Advisory and Water Infrastructure teams. Most of his professional experience was acquired in the Asset Management space, he was responsible for various tasks including but not limited to, technical support to financial team, developing digital solutions, spatial and financial analysis, updating and reconciling fixed asset registers, compiling portfolios of evidence for fixed assets (This included derecognitions, impairments and assets still under construction). Prinesan has led various teams regarding asset verification, quality assurance processes and updating of asset financials, he has also played a key role in stakeholder engagement and reporting processes. 


Jack Rogers


Topic: Maintenance practices supporting effective asset management in a municipal environment

Jack is an electrical engineer. He started his career in the manufacturing industry. He has worked in various industries in maintenance execution and implementation. For the last few years, he has been in the public sector currently with Ekurhuleni Water Care Company (ERWAT). 


Jan Willem Rustenburg


Topic: Increasing asset uptime through a risk-based approach to engineering spares management

Jan Willem Rustenburg started his career in the Dutch navy. After completing the academy in 1994, he became a Main Engineering Officer and served in various operational deployments. During that period, he found his passion for spare parts logistics. Not surprisingly, he became responsible for the logistics integration of all naval maintenance organizations. He combined these activities with Ph.D. research on spare parts management. This research challenged to develop direct relations between logistic costs and maintenance delay times. 


Zibusiso Siziba


Topic: Online Condition monitoring the next frontier in Preventive Maintenance

Zee is a physical asset management and technology professional who has a wealth of experience gained in manufacturing, mining, and consultancy fields. Zee is passionate about digital transformation and has proven success delivering technology and reliability improvement initiatives within asset intensive industries.


Kelvin Subramani
 

Topic: Continuous Improvement of Asset Management and Operational Excellence in Asset Management

Kelvin Subramani holds a BSc. Degree in Chemical Engineering and is currently working within MPAMOT’s Technical Advisory and Water Infrastructure Sectors. His most senior experience involves Asset Management, where he performed various roles that includes providing technical support, design reporting, digital development, spatial & financial analysis, and updating of a fixed asset register amongst others. Kelvin has had many key responsibilities and has led various teams that have been involved with asset verification, quality analysis (QA) processes, digitization, matching and linking of the verified assets to a pre-existing immovable Financial Asset Register (FAR). 


Henrico Swanepoel
 

Topic: Increasing asset uptime through a risk-based approach to engineering spares management

Henrico Swanepoel is a value driven individual, with a passion for information technology and business development. Henrico has close to a decade’s experience in Asset Management (AM) and Spare Parts Management (SPM) consulting in various industries. He has worked in support of the overall asset management and supply chain strategy for clients with a deep understanding of the challenges of the FMCG, mining and manufacturing industry. He has also been involved in numerous management improvement projects.

 


Carina van der Merwe

 

Topic: Unlocking Cost Savings: Optimising Spare Part Inventory Management with Engineering and Asset Management Principles

Carina Associate Consultant at Pragma, has 24 years’ experience in the petrochemical industry and has a B.Eng (Chemical) from the University of Stellenbosch.  She consults in AM Strategy, Spares Optimisation and AM training.  She is married with 2 children and loves spending time in nature.


Krige Visser

 

Topic: Implementing Total Productive Maintenance and Reliability Centred Maintenance techniques in a metallurgical processing plant

Krige Visser (PhD) is a Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of Technology Management at the University of Pretoria. He was a full member of GSTM from May 1994 to June 2016 when he retired. He taught courses in maintenance management and risk management at master's level. He has supervised 4 PhD research studies as well as about 150 master’s research studies. He has published 31 peer reviewed papers in academic journals and presented more than 40 papers at international conferences from 1995 to 2019. 


Chris von Holdt

 

Topic: Lessons learnt from driving asset management improvement at eThekwini Metro Municipality

Chris is a CSAM and a Director for Asset Management at Zutari and has more than 25 years of asset management advisory experience working with large public and private organisations in the government, transport, water, and property sectors across Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the USA.


Lloyd Wallace
 

Topic: Public Housing Department Turnaround through embedding integrated asset management practices

Lloyd is a technical director in Zutari’s Advisory practice and has more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of infrastructure sectors including infrastructure planning and asset management.
His technical background was founded in the delivery of water, stormwater, municipal and solid-waste infrastructure through computer-based modelling and design using a variety of software packages.
 


Francois Weideman
 

Topic: Bridging the Gap Between Physical Asset Management & Behavioural Change

Francois Weideman is a senior Mechanical Engineer and Managing Director of CrEng. He has a background in operations management, with experience in asset management, reliability & maintenance. Francois conducted research - and has a passion for – organisational culture and bridging the gap between Asset Management and Behavioural change in organisations. He also holds an Honours in Physical Asset Management from the University of Pretoria and a Government Certificate of Competency (GCC).


Prof Abimbola Windapo

Topic: Effective Maintenance Management Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Drought on Municipal Water Infrastructure in South Africa.

Abimbola Windapo is a Professor at the Department of Construction Economics and Management, and the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, with more than 35 years of experience in practice, teaching, and research in the construction industry and projects. 


Gerhard Zandberg
 

Topic: Unlocking the Efficiency and Value:  Harnessing the Power of IoT in Asset Management

Gerhard Zandberg is an engineer currently employed by Omicron IoT and Asset Management.  Including period as consulting engineer/asset manager he has 18 years’ experience with infrastructure assets at municipalities.  He promotes IoT technology (LoRa) as a perfect fit for asset management in terms of real-time productivity, tracking, and condition monitoring.

   




 




The 2022 SAAMA Conference was held at The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg on 22 & 23 June.

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Vlad Bacalu
Senior Vice President, Strategic & Technical Services, Amentum

AI and Asset Reliability

Vlad Bacalu is SVP leading the technology strategy for Amentum.   He has over 30 years of experience in management, creating and implementing solutions to drive bottom line performance. Vlad is the Past Chair of SMRP, a board member and Past Chair of GFMAM. He has a MS in Electrical Engineering.
 
  


Tirwirei Bingudza
Director & Principal Consultant
Binmak

Creating Value and Cost Competitiveness Through Asset Optimisation & Focused Improvement

Tirwirei Bingudza is an experienced Director, Engineer and Strategist with a demonstrated international track record of working in Engineering, IT, Technology Development, Physical Asset Management, Strategy Development as well as Operational and Executive Management in Mining & Metals, Mortgage Banking, Real Estate and Manufacturing. Tirwirei is an accomplished professional who is skilled in Business Management, Business Performance Improvement, Process Engineering, Engineering, Project Management, Technology Development, Digital Transformation, IIoT, Strategy Development and Physical Asset Management. His diverse International experience from USA, Chile, Brazil, The Philippines, Venezuela, Botswana, Madagascar, Namibia, Ireland, Zimbabwe and South Africa gives in insights and perspectives that add significant value to the diverse range of clients that he serves.
  


Siviwe Bunge
Reliability Engineer, Ekurhuleni Water Care Company

De-mystifying asset management, asset value realization, reliability and maintenance management for quick and measurable outcomes

Siviwe Humelton Bunge holds a BTech Degree in Mechanical Engineering from CPUT since 2012, he also holds a BSc (Honours) Degree in Electromechanical Engineering from UCT since 2015, a Master of Science (MSc) in Oil and Gas Engineering from Wits University since 2019, and various Management Certificates in Operations, Business Management, Business Development, Investment Management. He is a registered candidate engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). He is also a member of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE) as well as the Southern African Asset Management Association (SAAMA). He is passionate about Capital Investment and Process Optimisation through value realisation, reliability and asset care. 
He has more than 8 years’ experience working in energy, water and mining industries in South Africa.   


David Coetzee
Physical Asset Management Specialist, Royal HaskoningDHV

Linking BIM to Asset Management: How to Maximise the Value of Digital Information in the Management of Infrastructure Assets

Dave Coetzee has M Dip Tech in Structural Engineering, an MSc and an MBA, he is also.  He is also a Certified Asset Management Assessor. He started his career in municipal construction and then moved into a structural design office followed by a long stint as a project manager.  After this he became involved in engineering systems development and from there moved into physical asset management, where he has operated for the last seventeen years.
Dave’s training and broad experience in the infrastructure engineering sector, including, construction, design, municipal management, project management and systems development, provides a solid basis for his current role as a physical asset management specialist.
His area of interest is building asset management and assisting Clients and asset owners to optimise their portfolios by better understanding their infrastructure and how to scientifically and systematically manage it to maximise return on investment.
 
  


Dr Jasper L. Coetzee
Managing Director, AMTech

The Seven Assets of Asset Management

Dr Jasper L. Coetzee is the founder of AM-Tech, and the principal of the Terotechnica Asset Management College. They develop Physical Asset Management Leaders, and do training in Asset Management and Maintenance principles for people in industry. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering, focussing on Reliability Centred Maintenance, he is a fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.
  


Toni De Klerk
Group Risk and Compliance Manager, Pragma Holdings (Pty) Ltd

Enabling Adaptability in a Crisis Context – The Role of Asset Management Processes, Systems and Tools in Shifting Social Systems at Scale

Toni started her educational journey as a law student and graduated as a psychology major. Post-graduate, she obtained a MPhil in Corporate Strategy from GIBS. She currently spends her time in pursuit of disrupting how industry does compliance and seeks to embed multi-disciplinary risk management philosophies into EAM practice.


Willem de Vos
Focused Improvement Engineer, Pragma

Lowering carbon emissions in Fuel Retail facilities management

Willem, a qualified mechanical engineer, is passionate about simplifying the complexity of asset management, solving problems and putting practical improvements on the table. In his current role as Focused Improvement Engineer at Pragma, he works across various departments, projects, operations and HSSE. He gets to challenge himself in defining the real problem and coming up with the best suitable solution that will improve performance, while bringing down costs and mitigating risks for the client. Willem closely follows developments in engineering and actively expands his personal knowledge to the benefit of his clients.
  


Lee Govender
Civil Engineer II, Sasol

Building Resilient and smart asset management systems for civil assets in Sasol

Lee is a University of Pretoria graduate with a BENG in Civil Engineering. #TuksOfNiks! He has been in the civil and structural maintenance space for 8 years together with a specialized and talented team of engineers.
  


Karen Greyling
Academy Business Development Manager, Pragma Academy

A Successful Approach to Asset Management Training

Karen Greyling is the Pragma Academy Business Development Manager and helps asset intensive organisations to structure and implement winning training solutions that ensure their teams have the required knowledge and skills to achieve asset management excellence.
 


Craig Henry
Managing Director – CER Asset Management

Case study: Municipal viability from an infrastructure management perspective

Craig Henry has a master’s degree in engineering management; registered Professional Engineer and Accredited Facilities Professional; has 32 years of built-environment, industrial and infrastructure asset management; consults in integrated facility management and municipal infrastructure management, and lectures at post graduate level in Facility Management.
  


Andre Jordaan
Partner Consultant, Pragma

Case study in using data to facilitate decision making (which asset be the most cost effective to acquire)

André Jordaan has 20 years’ experience in the industry and has a B.Engineer (Mechanical) and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch. He consults in AM Strategy, focussed improvement, AM training and using financials e.a. to facilitate decision making.   He is married with 2 young kids and loves participating in sport.
  


Francois Joubert
Director: Asset Management & Performance, Aurecon

What's next for Asset Management in Southern Africa, "Lessons Learned from Down Under"

Francois is an Asset Management Strategy Specialist who works with his clients to link assets to corporate strategy in order to enable business outcomes.  He is a former SAAMA councillor and has implemented asset management improvement projects in several countries.  He is currently based in Perth, Australia.


Kiren Maharaj
Founder and Chairperson: Trenex (Pty) Ltd & Chairperson: South African National Energy Association (SANEA)

Sustainability and Asset Management – creating leverage in the just energy transition

Kiren is a dynamic leader and passionate energy professional with over 25 years’ experience at strategic, operational and management level as an executive in Africa’s foremost power utility and in the private sector in construction, engineering and infrastructure.  She has strategically directed, governed, and overseen the safe and effective production of electricity from over 14 000 Megawatts of coal fired power generation. She headed up a R40 bn division, accountable for the management of procurement, contracts, operations, logistics and the associated quality, technical and environmental issues of primary energy inputs for power generation.
  


Berzel Matiyenga
Reliability Engineer, Binmak Corporation

Enhancing Asset Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety through Digitalisation and Real-Time Asset Health Monitoring

Experienced Reliability Engineer with demonstrated history of working in the mining, manufacturing, power and utilities industries. Has a deep understanding of Digitalization Strategies, AI, Big Data, IoT and IIoT solutions. Skilled in Asset Health and Performance Monitoring, Project Management, Plant Operations, SCADA, Asset Management Consultation, Cloud Analytics, and Energy Modelling.
  


Christoff Müller
SAMP Operations Lead, Sebenzana

The Influence of Events on Risk Perception

Experienced project engineer with a demonstrated working knowledge of process design, project planning and commissioning. Successfully completed a Masters in Project Management, specialising in knowledge management. Currently working as a business process engineer and operations manager on a knowledge management system for the asset management industry.


Nomaphelo Ndzundzu
Asset Management, Zutari

Human-centred design in Asset Management

A mechanical engineer by profession. Nomaphelo has spent over 10 years in Operations and her passion as a consultant is to incorporate principles of reliability engineering and operational excellence at the highest level of the organization. I believe making policy makers conscious of the impact their decisions make to the people on the shop floor will result in a more integrated and effective organizational strategies for infrastructure asset management. Through human centred design the organizational asset management system can be tailored to the unique culture and needs of the organization as opposed to applying blanket approach to asset management.
  


Boudewijn Neijens
CMO, Copperleaf

Machine Learning Applied to Capital Planning

Boudewijn holds a MEng from the University of Brussels, and an MBA from INSEAD in France. He is the CMO at Copperleaf in Vancouver, Canada. He chairs the Canada committees at ISO’s TC251 on asset management systems (ISO 55000) and at IEC's TC123 on management of networked power assets.  
  


Dr Emmanuel Ngcobo
Chairperson of the Centre for Municipal Asset Management (CMAM-SA)

The Sustainable Outlook 

Public Servant in Local Government (16 years-experience) . 7 Years – eThekwini Municipality; 9 Years - iLembe District Municipality.  Chairperson of the Centre for Municipal Asset Management (CMAM-SA) Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Government Finance, Audit & Risk Officers (CIGFARO); Member of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Finance Working Group, Academic Advisory Board Member for the Durban University of Technology (Public Management & Economics) and the Tshwane University of Technology (Public Finance); Chairperson of the Noble Leaders International


Tonyson Nyabote
Technology and Application Developer, Binmak Corporation

The importance of IoT Smart Sensors in achieving operational and maintenance excellence in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Tonyson Nyabote is a Senior Engineer who specializes in building Cutting Edge AI Powered Condition Monitoring Technologies at Binmak Corporation.
  


Juan Pieterse
Engineer, Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd

High pressure feedwater heaters replacement optimisation

Professionally registered Mechanical Engineer with 10+ years’ experience in the South-African power sector. Master of Engineering received from the Centre for Asset Integrity Management at University of Pretoria for research conducted on lifecycle optimisation of indirect contact heat exchangers. Passionate about data driven asset integrity management and aspire to a career this field.
  


Bianca Rode
Senior Engineer,Sebenzana

Irrational Risk – The Human Factor in Risk Based Asset Management

Bianca Rode is a metallurgical engineer with a passion for data management. Working with consultancies have taken her all over Southern Africa, where she has been involved in a variety of industries. Her current role at Sebenzana APP involves optimizing how organizations perceive and interact with data.


Abram Mashego
SAMP engineer (Metallurgical), Sebenzana

Digitizing metallographic replica intake and evaluation results

Abram is a metallurgical engineer (Candidate) from Middelburg, Mpumalanga. He obtained his B.Eng. degree at the University of Pretoria, then worked in the physical metallurgy field before joining Sebenzana Consulting in 2021 as SAMP junior engineer.
 
  


Caroline van Heerden
Physical Asset Management Engineer, IMQS

Reflections on Infrastructure Maintenance Budgeting Tactics in the Public Sector

Caroline van Heerden started her career at Transnet Port Terminal working at Cape Town harbour, where she gained hands-on experience in maintenance and reliability. She then joined IMQS in 2017 as a Maintenance Management Business Analyst. After becoming a Certified Asset Management Assessor, she moved to the Professional Services team and supports clients in their Asset Management practice improvement initiatives.
  


Abraham Van Zyl Fourie
Director / Co-Founder, ABEOD

Advantages of using drones and emerging technologies in asset management.

Abraham attained his Civil Engineering degree in 2009. Since then, he specialised in the field of asset management, attaining extensive experience in the day-to-day workings of government institutions. In 2017, he started ABEOD; a company that strives to develop simplistic management strategies that optimise the workflows and financial turnover of these institutions.


Dr Chris von Holdt
Client Director: Advisory, Zutari

Leveraging lifecycle analytics for cross-asset optimisation

Chris’ specialisation is centred around supporting businesses with large infrastructure portfolios enhance their strategy, infrastructure management practices, processes and supporting systems. This typically requires working with management and operations across the breadth of the organisation. He has worked across South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, South-East Asia and the USA.
  


Chantel von Saint Ange
Risk and Compliance Manager, Pragma

Lowering carbon emissions in Fuel Retail facilities management

Chantel, an industrial engineer, has extensive experience developing solutions from the opportunities that arise from the complexity of fuel retail facilities management. She has an exceptional aptitude for data analysis, interpretation and scrutinising management systems to identify improvements and provide assurance. She reduces risk and increases asset compliance for clients.  
  


Abdullah Wahbeh
Global Practice Leader, GE Digital

Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence in Predictive Analytics

Strategist leader with twenty years of experience working in Predictive Maintenance, Asset Performance Management, AI, Digital Solutions & Transformation, Rotating Equipment & troublshooting, Comissioning of Gas Turbines, IOT and Cloud Computing. Responsible for the global go-to-market strategy and launch of Predictive Maintenance, enablement plans, and sales strategy.  


Hein Welman
BIM Lead, Southern Africa, Royal HaskoningDHV

Linking BIM to Asset Management: How to Maximise the Value of Digital Information in the Management of Infrastructure Assets

Hein has 17 years’ experience in the buildings and building services industry specializing in Building Information Modelling and Information Management of new and existing assets.
He serves as a BIM Lead responsible for incorporating all disciplines in an integrated BIM environment, implementation of global standards and for pioneering new methods and technologies. While his primary focus is on information management, processes, policy and interoperability., his main responsibility is to accelerate and implement BIM for RHDHV Southern Africa in alignment with RHDHV Global BIM standards.

With an interest in the entire life-cycle of information and associated digital assets, he has taken an in-depth journey over the last few years to assist asset owners in their digital transformation process. This entails aligning policy and practice to ensure information are requested and received in line with ISO19650 standards. This ensures interoperability and structured data to enable asset management and future-ready assets for digital twins.
  


Vulindlela Zikhali
Civil Engineer, Sasol

Building Resilient and smart asset management systems for civil assets in Sasol

Vulindlela Zikhali is an MSc graduate of UKZN who forms part of the Sasol Secunda Operations Civil Engineering Inspection Management team. He specializes in civil and structural asset maintenance and together with his team has developed the plant’s civil and structural asset management digital platform, AMMSTRAT.
    

SAAMA 2021 Conference

 

The first ever SAAMA Virtual Conference was held on 23 – 24 June 2021.