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Ncoded solutions at the Engineering Community Conference: ECC 2018


Johannesburg, 19 Jun 2018
Vincent Maila (Left), with Tawanda Chinaka.
Vincent Maila (Left), with Tawanda Chinaka.

In keeping up with what is happening in the world of Siemens and in the world of digitalisation, nCoded Solutions attended the ECC 2018, held on 14 June 2018 at CSIR ICC in Pretoria.

It was hosted by ESTEQ, a Siemens Software Vendor. The ECC 2018 was designed to attract industry decision-makers, engineers, academics, and existing and new Siemens software users (which include the renowned Simatic IT Preactor for Advanced Planning and Scheduling).

The ECC has been going for several years. This year was the biggest ever, pulling in just under 400 attendees. It is glaringly clear that this industry is still male-dominated, after observing the female to male ratio to be at about 3:100.

For Lance Zikalala, Managing Director at nCoded Solutions, the ECC presents a valuable opportunity to interact and align with other Siemens partners either exhibiting or presenting at the conference. nCoded Solutions is the software reseller of Simatic IT Preactor, used for production planning and scheduling.

nCoded Solutions sponsored some of its employees to attend the conference's Technology Tracks. These technical workshops allow delegates hands-on opportunities to work with new Siemens products.

Vincent Maila, the APS Consultant at nCoded Solutions, said, "I am very excited to be here because I get to see how other organisations implement some of our technology".

He carried on explaining how much he is pleased to see that his project management approaches are very close to what was presented to be best practice in our industry.

There were over 20 speakers from different industries, ranging from university professors, to international speakers from Siemens themselves, to motivational speakers, to software users, all presenting ranges of topics and case studies.

For Zikalala, this is one of the ECC's most valuable offerings, the chance for nCoded employees to interact with companies that have had success in implementing production planning and scheduling solutions.

The event gave the company and many of the attendees some food for thought.

Engineering Community Conference: ECC 2018.
Engineering Community Conference: ECC 2018.

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Lance Zikalala
Ncoded Solutions
lance@ncoded.co.za