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The development of a Water Services Development Plan for a Local Municipality
Ceenex was sub-contracted to perform the technical and financial engineering planning and development of the Local Municipal Water Services Development Plan, as a separate process to the initial project scope for the development of the District Munic...more
Coal Supply Simulation Modeling
The client operates a complex encompassing several coal mines and two duplicate stockyards, with close to 1 million ton live combined capacity, which feed two synthetic fuel plants. The mines are connected to the stockyards with conveyor belt systems...more
Management support of the Customer Services Function
Ceenex has been appointed to provide sourcing services to manage and support the Customer Services Function. The support services includes for the transfer of skills and capacity development of client employees....more
Ceenex has been appointed to provide full time support of the Information Infrastructure. This entails the administration of BusinessWare, ProcessorWare, NetTelWare as well as UserWare. Ceenex has a full time resource available at the client premis...more
Management support of the Engineering Function
The client is responsible for the engineering design and building of all water services projects within its area of jurisdiction. Ceenex has been appointed to provide management support services to the Engineering function, which includes the Projec...more
Section 78 assessment for a Local Municipal Water Services Authority
Ceenex was appointed to support the Local Municipality S78 process for water services, specifically ensuring conformance to the Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act no. 32 of 2000), as amended. Specific focus was placed on developing a financial model, ...more
Ceenex was appointed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (National) to support and coordinate the development of Water Services Development Plans for all the Water Services Authorities in a specific Province. This includes: Status Quo as...more
Implementation of a Customer Query Tracking System for a Local Municipality
Ceenex was appointed to implement and further develop one of the i-RMs it had available. The project entailed the customization of the i-RMs to the specific needs of the client and implementation as part of its One Stop Customer Care Centre. The sy...more
Local Municipal Information Infrastructure Strategy Development
The client faced several burning issues relating to the deployment of Information Infastructure in their organization and appointed Ceenex to develop an Information Infrastructure Strategy which would address the burning issues as a parallel process ...more
Local Municipal Information Infrastructure Strategy Implementation
Ceenex assisted a Local Municipality with the development of their Information Infrastructure Strategy. The strategy comprises three phases namely Fix IT, Standardize IT and Revolutionize IT. Ceenex was appointed to assist the municipality in the i...more
Facilitation support for the transfer of Water Services Assets
Ceenex was appointed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Provincial) to facilitate, coordinate and monitor the transfer of Water Services assets in the Province to ten (10) Water Services Authorities. This includes the assessment of the...more
Section 78 Assessment for four (4) Water Services Authorities
Ceenex was appointed to conduct and finalize the Section 78 assessment for four Water Services Authorities, specifically ensuring conformance to the Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act no. 32 of 2000), and in particular section 78 and 80. The work met...more
Surface rail dynamic simulation modeling
A surface rail toolkit was utilized to determine the constraints in a overland shaft complex rail system, and there after to determine systematic improvements that would be required in order for the rail system to be able continue to supply dependent...more
The project entailed the update of the Strategic plan 2030, with the latest information and recent studies, and to incorporate the water requirements of potential agricultural users. The updated plan was termed SP2030A, where the A refers to revision...more
Local Municipal Water Services Management Information and Control System
The Local Municipality as the Water Services Authority has the responsibility to ensure the sustainable provisioning of safe, acceptable and affordable water and sanitation services to its customers. In order to sustain the IDP vision for the municip...more
Water Tariff Object Model and tariff modeling support
The model allows for the determination of tariffs according to tariff principles, guidelines and legal requirements based on a comprehensive customer and budget database. Various tariff types are incorporated into the model including variable, fixed...more
The client, a producer of glass bottles, required an understanding of the influence of operational variables and procedures on the companies operational profit, in order to increase the profitability of its operations. A process model template, using...more
The Strategic Plan SP2030 is a comprehensive, integrated, dynamic water sector long term plan, for urgent implementation, for the sustainable provisioning of safe, acceptable and affordable water and sanitation services. The Water and Sanitation str...more
Establishment of a Regional Water Services Provider Company
The establishment of a new Regional Water Services Provider Company involved all the activities required to effect sustainable operations of the bulk and reticulation water and sanitation services for 4 Water Services Authorities and included: - Co...more
The Design, Development and Deployment of a Dam Object Resource System (DORS)
Ceenex developed the Dam Object Resource System (DORS) which indicates the levels of dams in the area of operation. The system provides simple reporting which allow managers to view at a glance what the current levels of dams are. The system portra...more
Deploy Marginal Technology Solution for Water Services Provider
The Ceenex developed SP2030 strategic plan contained the marginal technology solution to be implemented as part of the establishment of this water utility. Ceenex was appointed to deploy the marginal technology solution. The deployment process incl...more
The Design, Development and Deployment of a Environmental Management Object System (EMOS)
Ceenex developed the Environmental Management Object System (EMOS). The system allow the client to monitor the data obtained from various water sample points throughout its supply area. The system facilitates the management of sample points and pro...more
The development of the Water Services Development Plan for a District Municipality
Ceenex was sub-contracted to perform the technical and financial engineering planning and development of the Amajuba Water Services Development Plan. The planning process included the determination and comparison of the 30 year net present value of s...more
Underground conveying, underground rail and surface rail dynamic simulation modeling
Dynamic simulation modeling toolkits were developed in Gensym’s G2 for rapid application during the analysis of underground conveying systems. The conveying toolkit was applied to several decline shaft systems which produce up to 3 products and inclu...more
Supply Chain Simulator and Scheduler Development and Implementation
A dynamic simulation model of the stockpiling, drying, rail transport, port tipping, port conveying, port storage, bulk shipping, bulk importing and fertilizer/sulfuric acid plant processes was developed in a object orientated environment, that enabl...more
The client, one of South Africa’s Coca-Cola producers and distributors, hauls between 200 and 300 loads per day between the 4 production centers (PC’s) and 10 major distribution centers (DC’s) with 70+ haulers. Products are hauled from the Production...more
Mining and transport logistics modeling toolkits
Dynamic simulation modeling toolkits were developed in an object orientated environment for rapid application during the analysis of underground conveying systems. The conveying toolkit was applied to several decline shaft systems which produce up to...more
Strategic Enterprise Modeling Tool Development and Implementation
The client, the world's largest producer of coated fine paper, had a need to do financial evaluation of their strategic plans from machine to global, enterprise level. An interactive Enterprise Modeling System was built to assist the client’s managem...more
Maintenance of a Deployed Web-based System
The purpose of this project is to maintain a deployed web-based Catchment Information Management Decision Support System. The system runs on Windows NT 4, IIS 4 and SQL Server 6.5. The work includes monthly visits to the client for one day and any ...more
The Design, Development and Deployment of a Customer Services Agreement System (SLA Manager)
Ceenex was appointed to envision, design and develop a Customer Services Agreement System (CSAS) with the main objective to support the designed SLM structure whilst ensuring sufficient knowledge transfer to allow the establishment and negotiating of...more
Design and Deployment of a Document Management System
Electronic Document Management is an ever-increasing requirement of larger organizations. Clients are faced with various choices in terms of electronic document management. The purpose of this project was to design and deploy a lowest Total Cost of...more
The client accepted and resourced an Information Infrastructure Business Plan 2000 (IIBP2000) for implementation. The Business Plan consisted of 60+ action plans with an initial one year budget of SAR100 million. The purpose of the project was to p...more
Development of a world market segmentation model for water and wastewater treatment plants
As a component of elaborating its business development strategy that will allow them to grow their business internationally, the client has undertaken an exercise to identify which of its offerings are most in demand in the world market, including t...more
Business Resource Manager Design, Development and Deployment
The Business Resource Manager is an integrated web-based system that manages the day to day tracking of proposals, projects, contacts, time and expenses, orders, invoicing and reporting. Reports includes real-time online resource utilization and pro...more
A need existed to standardize the various databases of the client. The selection and evaluation of different commercially available database platforms was required to select the most appropriate platform for the diverse needs of the client, includin...more
Design, Develop and Deploy a Capital Budgeting System
The purpose of this project was to design and develop a dynamic web-based system that would provide officials of a new Metropolitan Municipality with an on-line web-based system for budgeting capital projects for the next financial year. The UML map...more
Design and Development of a Catchment Information Management Decision Support System (CIMDSS)
The client had a need to add value to the numerous laboratory analysis which it performed for its 100+ sample points spread out over various catchments. A lowest cost of ownership design was performed to provide real time management information to t...more
Information Infrastructure Audit
New Demarcation of local government required the development of an integrated Information Infrastructure Business Plan. In order to provide the required information to ensure the successful design of an integrated Information Infrastructure, an Info...more
Integrated Health System Development
The former City Council Health Services Department identified the need to develop an integrated health system to ensure effective and efficient delivery of health services to the community served. The Client consequently requested Ceenex to envision,...more
Design, Develop and Deploy a Financial Transaction Viewer/Manager
The purpose of this project was to design and develop a dynamic web-based system that would interact with the client’s proprietary financial transaction system, thereby allowing real-time on-line viewing and managing of financial transactions. The U...more
Business Plan for the Design of an Integrated Customer Care System
The client (local government) was under increasing pressure to upgrade and integrate its services delivery and customer care interactions. The client experiences approximately 500 000 customer interactions per month. The Customer Care System technol...more
The Design, Development and Deployment of a Strategic Projects Manager (SPM)
The Strategic Projects Manager (SPM) is a web-based system developed by Ceenex for the client to assist with the implementation of the Information Infrastructure Business Plan (IIBP2000). The Strategic Projects Manager (SPM) is a complete interactiv...more
The Design and Development of a Resolution Tracking System (RTS)
Ceenex was appointed to develop a web-based Resolution Tracking System (RTS) with the ability to capture and track resolutions. This allowed the management personnel of the Metropolitan Municipality to monitor the actions to be taken after decision...more
Specification of the One Integrated Transaction Processing System (OITPS)
The client’s need was to replace a current computer mainframe based transaction system. The need was also identified to include the high level user requirements from a customer care system perspective. The scope of the project included preplanning of...more
The Design, Development and Deployment of a IT Skills Inventory (SKIN)
The IT skills inventory (Skin) is a collaborative web-based skills inventory system, allowing all IT staff the opportunity to complete skills and desired state scenarios. The IT skills inventory is a valuable tool in the structuring of a companies I...more
Global Product Distribution Simulator
The client was in the feasibility phase of the development of two zinc smelters, several hundred kilometers apart, and required a tool to measure the feasibility and operational requirements of the marketing plan. The marketing plan included the bulk...more
Design of the Information Infrastructure Business Plan (IIBP) for a City Council
The client identified Information Technology as one of the support workflows to form part of a Business Process Re-engineering project. Members of Ceenex were key resources in the development of an Information Infrastructure Business Plan for the cl...more
Project life cycle and design validation knowledge base
A knowledge base with simulation modeling capability was created in Gensym’s G2 to form an integral part of the design and development process of a new coal wash plant. The knowledge base include an overland conveying component and a wash plant compo...more
Iron ore treatment plant model
The client required the development of a dynamic simulation model of its iron ore treatment plant in Gensym’s G2. The model included materials handling and process components from ore receiving to stock piles. The client successfully used the model t...more
Block Cave Production Simulation Modeling
A dynamic simulation model was developed of the underground and crusher plant operation of a block cave operation in the design phase, using Gensym’s G2. The model included load-haul-dump vehicles, chargers, and drill rigs. Operational constraints in...more
The project entailed design of a Water and Sanitation Strategy with the main objective to design the most effective and efficient management structure for water and sanitation management in the regional area. The strategy plan includes infrastructur...more
The project involved the facilitation and design of the Strategic Plan 2015 for a Regional Water Care Company. The work included the development of a vision, mission, goals and objectives, flow and load prediction model, an infrastructure developmen...more
Development and Implementation of the 2010 Wastewater Management Strategy
The project involved a wastewater management strategy for the client resulting in the corporatization of the wastewater function, as a new Water Care Company. The strategy included an infrastructure development plan, opex and capex model, human resou...more
Development of an Integrated Sanitation Management Strategy.
The project involved a detailed situation analysis focusing on local government’s ability to render the sanitation function and included the design of a diagnostic framework to evaluate such ability. A total of 4 provinces and 120 local governments ...more
Control systems testing and operator training for a new coal beneficiation plant
The client required that the control system for a new coal beneficiation plant, which included a network of Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC’s) and Supervisory Systems (SCADA), to be tested in a non destructive environment. A simulation model of...more
Brewing Enterprise Process Model
The client was in the process of planning a new brewery and required an understanding of the process variables and constraints of the planned plant. A knowledge base of the planned plant was created in an object-orientated environment with dynamic si...more