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Demystifying Industry 4.0
While there has been a lot of hype around Industry 4.0, the digitalisation of factories has not scaled up as expected. A fundamental misconception of what it’s all about and a slow-to-change mindset are two of the major impediments to successful implementation. A...
African tech company of the year
Jendamark Automation is proud to have been named Technology Company of the Year at the Africa Tech Week awards in Cape Town in September. The company was recognised for its technological achievements in developing digitally enhanced component assembly systems for the...
Investing in conservation
While Jendamark applies ecosystem thinking to the development of all our manufacturing technologies, we recently invested in an ecosystem of a different sort in our quest to be the employer of choice. In October, Jendamark Automation announced an investment in...
Sisters for change
Period poverty is the second biggest issue in Africa preventing educational equality for girls. Jendamark Automation has supported the start-up of Sisterhood SA Pty, a visionary health programme that is changing lives with a simple, sustainable sanitary kit. While...
Maximising machine data
Going to market in 2023 is the ODIN IOT platform, which gathers real-time performance data straight from customers’ machines to predict and avoid downtime. The technical product manager, Christine Chetty, explains what it’s all about. Essentially, ODIN IOT is about...
Taking the Lead
Senior design engineer Reshma Jadhav recently travelled to South Africa where she spent two weeks learning the complexities of catalytic converters before taking up her new role as technical lead for Jendamark India’s canning division. It has been a rapid rise for...
Tech company spotlights SA’s critical shortage of qualified artisans
MAD MURAL: Jendamark’s manufacturing, assembly and design department celebrates the unveiling of their new mural, which honours the role of the artisan in industry, at the company headquarters in Gqeberha. A LEADING South African tech company is spotlighting the...
Managing development challenges
It has been a trial by fire for one of ODIN Manufacturing’s newest developers, Asanda Madikizela, who, fresh from university, has risen rapidly to the challenge of making ODIN Manager a reality. Part of the ODIN Workstation offering, ODIN Manager is a web-based...
Bird’s eye view
Jendamark Automation’s head of finance, Jacqui Nagle, is used to crunching big numbers and making tough business decisions. We asked her for an honest account of what it’s like to be a woman in the hot seat. “I started at Jendamark on secondment in my final year of...
The Women of Jendamark
Globally, the manufacturing sector is still male-dominated, and many companies struggle to attract skilled female candidates. But with digital technologies creating previously undreamed-of job possibilities, Jendamark is working hard to redress the gender imbalance....
