INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Industry insights, operational perspectives and industry commentary from the SPM team on infrastructure, maintenance, logistics, project execution and the realities shaping industrial environments.
What Clients Are Really Paying for When They Invest in Maintenance
By Nhlanhla Nkomo, Head of Sales at SPM Maintenance rarely carries emotional weight in a boardroom. It is rarely the part of the business anyone feels excited to fund. Most of the time, it enters the conversation because something else is at stake. It may be output....
Africa’s Infrastructure Challenge Is Not Only Capacity. It Is Discipline
Southern Power Maintenance CEO, Mvuyo Tyobeka, argues that Africa’s infrastructure challenge is not defined by capacity alone, but by the discipline with which projects are planned, governed, and executed. In this Engineering News article, he examines why delivery...
When Planning Ambiguity Becomes an Operational Problem
By Maria Mothibeli, Head of Operations at SPM Many operational failures are blamed on execution when the real problem started long before a team ever arrived on site. By the time a project begins slipping, the issue is often already embedded in the way the work was...
