Ceenex

Best wishes for 2013

imre.viljoen — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:30:05 +0000

Ceenex management would like to wish its employees and customers a happy and prosperous 2013. Let’s create a better future together.

WISA 2012/2013 Council Election Results

imre.viljoen — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:10:04 +0000

WISA is very excited to announce the results of the recently held elections. The newly elected Council members will take up their seat on the Council at the AGM taking place on 7 May 2012.

Congratulations to the following members on their appoint to the WISA Council:
• Mr Johan Wagner
• Dr Harrison Pienaar
• Mr Paul Gaydon
• Dr TG Barnard
• Mr Farouk Robertson

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Anderson Mancotywa
WISA President

Ceenex and Norbridge provide insight on process improvement and the application of modeling tools in the mining industry

imre — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:23:38 +0000

(May 2011) McLean, VA – Martin Franklin (Ceenex LC) and Pete Fordham (Norbridge, Inc.) hosted a seminar on “Process Improvement and the Application of Modeling Tools in the Mining Industry” as part of the 5th International Industry Summit on Mining Performance recently held in Rapid City, SD. The Summit brings together top leaders in the industry, and attendees share their expertise on cost containment, increasing safety and productivity performance, organizational change, risk management, and sustainability towards improving business improvement efforts.

Ceenex and Norbridge highlighted how mining productivity has declined significantly across commodities, impacting cost. While costs have risen, prices have risen even faster, so mining profits have continued to rise. They pointed out that once prices begin to drop, significant attention will return to productivity and cost challenges. They further noted that while productivity has declined, modeling tools have evolved, providing powerful capabilities to support mining companies as they aim to ramp up performance.

Case studies demonstrated the successful application of modeling and simulation tools across different commodities and application areas. It was evident that modeling provides a competitive advantage to those corporations adopting it towards informed decision making. Furthermore, as highlighted in the Newest Tools and Modeling Developments session, there are numerous tools available to bring complexity under control.

Ceenex and Norbridge also conducted a survey among Summit registrants, investigating the Application of Modeling Tools in the Mining Industry. Survey results showed major opportunity to leverage modeling tools and capabilities to improve mining performance.

About Ceenex (http://www.ceenex.com)
Ceenex is an independent management, technology and engineering advisory firm, solving complexity through the application of their skills in business engineering, development consulting, project and program management, and information engineering. Ceenex is privately owned with offices in Pretoria (South Africa) and McLean (Virginia, USA). The Ceenex statement of qualifications covers more than 200 assignments with a strong sectoral focus in logistics, government, water & waste, mining, ICT, agriculture, SMME and donors.

About Norbridge (http://www.norbridgeinc.com)
Norbridge, Inc. is an independent, multi-specialty consulting firm focused primarily on the mining, energy, transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries. Based in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., Norbridge leverages sophisticated modeling tools to help mining companies improve processes, financial/operating performance and shareholder value. We assist our clients in addressing a range of management issues, including: performance and process improvement, strategic planning, market planning, new product development, organization change and development, financial analysis, merger integration, operations improvement, and purchasing and procurement support.

Contact:
Johan C Wagner
Ceenex LC
2010 Corporate Ridge, Suite 700
McLean, VA 22102
Cell +1.703.717.8713
johan@ceenex.com
www.ceenex.com

Ceenex and partners aim to get rail back on track

imre — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:07:35 +0000

(May 2010) Arlington, VA – Ceenex aligned with Maendeleo Ventures, LLC and its partners to provide solutions to the railroad industry. The joint offering, Maendeleo Rail, aim to leverage the Revolutionizing Rail strategy. Revolutionizing Rail is a holistic strategy for returning railroads to excessive profitability.

The Maendeleo Rail strategy (http://maendeleoventures.com/sectors/rail) is based on breakthrough innovations from engineers with over thirty years experience as executives and consultants. Maendeleo Rail’s people have worked on every continent and are located around the world. Maendeleo Rail uses a local approach with local partners, tailored to meet local challenges. Furthermore, Maendeleo Rail is not affiliated with any suppliers and is thus free from influence or ulterior motives.

Revolutionizing Rail aims to identify ways to increase revenue through better business plans, maximize operational capacity and improve safety and reduce operating costs through more realistic operating practices, improved modeling and common sense signaling. It reduces the risk of operating a railroad, allowing the railroad to better serve its customers.

Ceenex will provide its operational modeling capabilities, allowing Maendeleo Rail to cost-effectively investigate different opportunities. This will be done through application of Knowledge Based Optimization and Simulation (KBOS) to solve problems that happen in the real world using a virtual business. Advanced analytics and modeling tools enable opportunity identification and rapid analysis of expected impacts.

About Maendeleo Ventures, LLC (http://www.maendeleoventures.com)
Maendeleo Ventures, LLC is a firm created and specifically dedicated to bringing about sustainable, positive change in the world by creating and promoting trade, education and innovation through business and technology. Maendeleo Ventures sees opportunity where other people see problems.

Contact:
Martin M. Franklin
Ceenex LC
2010 Corporate Ridge, Suite 700
McLean, VA 22102
Office +1.202.525.6030
Cell +1.571.213.1008
martin.franklin@ceenex.com
www.ceenex.com

Ceenex LC aligns with Simio, LLC

imre — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:35:02 +0000

(March 2010) Arlington, VA – Ceenex LC is excited to announce the new role as authorized representative for Simio, LLC, developer of 3D simulation software. Ceenex is an independent management, technology and engineering solutions provider who excel at assisting clients with either basic or complex decision making requirements through the application of advanced analysis tools and techniques.

Simio® is object-oriented simulation software offering intelligent objects and the ability to model any system rapidly without compromise. Simio® was created by a team of experienced simulation software developers led by Dr. Dennis Pegden, former founder and CEO of Systems Modeling Corporation. Simio® is built on .NET technology, has built-in integration with Google 3D Warehouse, and was designed to be both powerful for advanced users and easy for beginners.

About Ceenex
Ceenex is an independent management, technology and engineering advisory firm, solving complexity through the application of their skills in business engineering, development consulting, project and program management, and information engineering. Ceenex is privately owned with offices in Pretoria (South Africa) and Arlington (Virginia, USA). The Ceenex statement of qualifications covers more than 200 assignments with a strong sectoral focus in government, water & waste, mining, ICT, agriculture, SMME and donors.

About Simio LLC
Simio is a private company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dedicated to delivering leading edge solutions for the design, emulation, and scheduling of complex systems. Simio® was founded by a highly experienced team. C. Dennis Pegden, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Simio LLC, has over 30 years of experience in simulation and scheduling and has been widely recognized as an industry leader. He led in the development of SLAM (marketed by Pritsker and Associates) and then founded Systems Modeling Corporation, now part of Rockwell Automation. Dennis led the creation of the market-leading simulation products SIMAN® and Arena®, as well as the finite capacity scheduling product Tempo (later renamed RS Scheduler).

Contact:
Martin M. Franklin
Ceenex LC
2010 Corporate Ridge, Suite 700
McLean, VA 22102
Office +1.202.525.6030
Cell +1.571.213.1008
martin.franklin@ceenex.com
www.ceenex.com

Michele A. McDonald

imre — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:21:53 +0000

Name: Michele A. McDonald
Designation: Director
Experience: 16 years
Qualifications: Pr Eng; B. Eng. cum laude, University of Pretoria; B. Eng. Hons cum laude, University of Pretoria
Professional affiliations: Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Michele McDonald is a professional engineer with 16 years work experience, 2 years as a project manager in the construction industry and 14 years’ consulting experience mainly to Government, Public and Private Utilities and Water and Waste Environments and Information Engineering. She has performed several assignments for both the public and private sector in South Africa, USA, France, Poland, Russia and Brazil. Career highlights include institutional support and program management of national water sector programs; water services strategic and institutional designs; project management of large infrastructure projects; solving complex process and systems problems; auditing and analysis of business and infrastructure; UML design of business processes and systems. She has worked on numerous projects in the following key areas:

Project Planning & Program Management
Business Process and Systems Modeling
Business and Strategic Analysis and Design
Institutional Support and Decisioning Processes
Performance Monitoring and Control
Information Systems Planning and Design
Information Technology Analysis and Design
Information Management Design and Support
Technology and Engineering
Decision Support Systems Analysis & Design

Michele A. McDonald started her career at Protokon (a construction business unit), which is an affiliate of Transnet (Public Transportation Corporation) in January 1992 as an Assistant Engineer. She furthered her career by entering the private sector in April 1993 when she joined consulting engineers, Wagner Nel (Pty) Ltd as Civil Engineer. In February 1995, she joined the Wagner Nel Management Consultants team and became responsible for infrastructure and institutional strategies. Towards the end of July 1996, Me. McDonald joined Booz.Allen & Hamilton (South Africa) Ltd and was appointed as Senior Consultant. She was promoted to Associate level in July 1997 and Senior Associate level in September 1998. During September 1998, Ms McDonald was transferred to Booz.Allen & Hamilton corporate campus in McLean, Virginia where she was a key resource in the development of a portfolio strategy for the International Client Service Team. Me. McDonald resigned from Booz.Allen & Hamilton in February 2000 to return to South Africa. In March 2000, Me. McDonald and two colleagues started Ceenex (Pty) Ltd, a firm of consulting business engineers focusing on technology-based transformation and business engineering. Me. McDonald is an Executive Director and shareholder of Ceenex (Pty) Ltd.

Some projects performed by Me. McDonald as part of Ceenex (Pty) Ltd includes:

Key Expert for the Lesotho Water Sector Information Management System
Management Support Service for the Transfer of Water Services Assets and the National Refurbishment Program
Provisioning of a Support Service to the Gauteng, North West and North Cape Regional Offices for the Transfer of Water Services Assets and National Refurbishment Program
Support to coordination of Provincial Water Services Authorities Water Services Development Planning Process: North West Province
Project Management Support for the Engineering Functional Centre of uThukela Water (Pty) Ltd
Design Support for the Engineering Functional Center of uThukela Water
Amajuba DM asset valuation and transfer
Madibeng Section 78 internal assessment
Support to the coordination of Provincial WSA’s Water Services Development Planning Process: KwaZulu Natal
Madibeng Transfer of Assets
Establishment of Water User Associations in the North West
Transaction Advisor for the Madibeng Utility Management Information System
Engineering, Planning, Analysis, Modeling and Simulation (PAMS)of the uThukela Water Strategic Plan SP2030
Development of the Amajuba Water Services Development Plan
Development and Review of the Newcastle Water Services Development Plan
Design and Development of a Customer Services Agreement System (CSAS) for De Beers
Business Analysis and Design of the Catchment Information Management Decision Support System (CIMDSS) for Rand Water
Design and Implementation of the IIBP2000 information infrastructure business plan of the Pretoria City Council involving a technology leapfrogging upgrade of all information infrastructures

Imre Viljoen

imre — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:23:59 +0000

Name: Viljoen, Imre
Designation: Director
Experience: 18 years
Qualifications: B.Eng (Industrial) cum laude, University of Pretoria
Professional affiliations: Member of Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (MSAIIE)Imre has been an active player in the Engineering and Information Technology arena for more than 17 years in the following areas:

Business & Process simulation, modelling and optimization
Information Technology Architecture and Systems Design and Support
Business Process design
Financial Process design and optimization
Financial Management and Support
Management Information System (MIS/MES)
Decision Support Systems
Supply-chain modelling, scheduling and optimization
Web based Information Systems
Transport Scheduling system
Customer Relationship Management

Career highlights include modeling, simulation and system development for the water and mining sector, CIO, ERP implementation and Customer Care system implementation in the water sector, water services strategic and institutional designs; water resources systems implementation; information technology systems design, solving complex process and systems problems; auditing and analysis of business and infrastructure; UML design of business processes and systems.

Water Research Commission Electronic Water Knowledge Hub launched

imre — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:02:04 +0000

(September 2009) Pretoria, South Africa – The Water Research Commission (WRC) launched its new website developed by Ceenex on the 17th September 2009 in Midrand. In an effort to increase ease of access to knowledge and to encourage the creation of an active water research community, the WRC has completed Phase 1 of the development of the Electronic Water Knowledge Hub, i.e. the new WRC Website and the associated infrastructure that will, once the further phases have been completed, allow interactive use and ease of document searches. This will be characterised by its instant search capability that will enable finding information on 40 years of WRC research work. To see the new website, visit www.wrc.org.za