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“The team was great, industry knowledge and technical tenacity. Perfect.”

Leanie Hartman, Account Manager for Afrimat. Rapid data stability support in a fast-moving mining production environment.

The challenge

What mining keeps asking for.

  • Operational data lives in SCADA, historians, and spreadsheets, none of which talk to each other cleanly.
  • Predictive maintenance models exist but are not deployed where the operators can act on them.
  • Capital project tracking is still PowerPoint-driven; reality drifts from plan in expensive ways.
  • Site connectivity is uneven; not everything is going to live in the cloud and that is fine.

We start every engagement by Envisioning, see what that looks like. Then we get to work:

our work

Our customer stories from your world.

Mapping deep-shaft HR processes for automation in Nintex Process Manager

Deep-shaft Mining Company

We mapped, optimised and governed a deep-shaft mining company’s HR processes in Nintex Process Manager, turning fragmented manual workflows into a navigable, automation-ready set of processes.

Nintex Process Manager

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Nintex Process ManagerProcess MappingProcess GovernanceDashboards & Reports
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Modernising line-side quality control for MAHLE

MAHLE

A modern .NET solution that prints product labels from automated quality checks on MAHLE’s South African lines, with central configuration and full traceability.

Application modernisation

.NETBespoke IoT
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Consolidating PPC onto one Microsoft 365 environment across five countries

PPC

An Active Directory consolidation and Exchange Online migration that brought PPC’s separate country domains and mailboxes onto a single Microsoft 365 environment.

Microsoft 365 & Exchange Online

Microsoft 365Exchange OnlineActive DirectoryEntra ID
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A low-code vaccination management system for Sasol, in four weeks

Sasol

A Power Platform system that ran Sasol’s staff Covid-19 vaccinations end to end, from consent to follow-up, built with low-code in four weeks.

Power Platform

Power AppsMicrosoft FormsPower AutomateDataverse
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Tightening audit and governance with Nintex K2 and ServiceNow

International petrochemical

A Nintex K2 and ServiceNow integration that gave a petrochemical company a full audit trail of every change from development to production.

Capability

Practice

Nintex Process Automation

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Nintex K2ServiceNow
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A central data warehouse for Belgotex on Microsoft Fabric

Belgotex

A central, modelled data warehouse that pulls Belgotex’s scattered data into one place to report from, with room to take in factory IoT data later.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Microsoft FabricAzure SQLPower BI
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ML applied in Industry & Infrastructure

Where modern technical works best.

Where AI and Agents work

AI for industry is most valuable in the inspection layer, vision models on quality, anomaly detection on telemetry. Built where the data is, deployed where the operators are.

Featured approach: APEX, turning SDLC into AI Development Lifecycle.

AI-native software development, every step. Our APEX framework is modular, relies on cloud or private token factories, and automates the software lifecycle from discovery transcripts, to feature backlogs, to architecture, build, and delivery. Secure, quality-driven, and fast.

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Get in touch

Let’s talk about Industry & Infrastructure.

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