Case Study

Columbus Stainless

Columbus Stainless, part of the Acerinox Group of companies, is the only stainless steel mill in Africa.

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Case Study

Columbus Stainless

Columbus Stainless, part of the Acerinox Group of companies, is the only stainless steel mill in Africa.

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About

Columbus Stainless, part of the Acerinox Group of companies, is the only stainless-steel mill in Africa.

Based in Mpumalanga, South Africa, they produce austenitic
stainless steel, ferritic stainless steel and duplex stainless in plate, sheet, coil and strip.

They are a major stainless steel supplier into Africa and internationally.
Columbus Stainless values focus on safety as a way of life, quality in everything they do, care for the environment and flexibility and discipline in action.

Q&A

We spoke to Lukas van Vuuren, Senior Risk Control Practitioner, from Columbus Stainless about their need for a workforce management solution to improve their compliance, reduce their risk and increase their productivity.

We were previously using an in-house developed system which was basically spreadsheet based and our I.T. department could not add logical process flows or intelligence to the system without rebuilding it from scratch.

There were a number of other limitations with this including a lack of intelligence, back-up and support and poor scalability to match our expanding operations.

We were looking for a commercial off-the-shelf solution that offered configuration and flexibility to adapt to our changing requirements.

It had to offer best practices and ensure a structured management approach which INX did.

The use of the system forced us to create order in all other support systems in our Company.

Older systems tend to run on Excel based tables whereas INX uses an intelligent “Tree Structure”. This eliminated duplication by more than 80% in the system, particularly in risk assessments.

A large number of new statistics and documents have also been formulated since the implementation of INX.

We created high level risk assessments as well as the control/training mechanism used is specifications, which is derived from the risk assessment controls.

These are company standards and can only be changed by an appointed panel to ensure great standardisation, consistency and the overall reduction of risks and increase in compliance.

The training and implementation were excellent as is the current support.

INX are always available and has on more than one occasion walked the extra mile for our company.

INX not only provides a solution that meets our requirements and ensures greater compliance and reduced risk but they have the service to match.

I strongly recommend INX and would be happy to act as a reference anytime.

The Solution

Columbus Stainless has implemented INX InControl for health, safety and compliance management and INX InTuition for skills, training and learning management.

Snapshot

  • Mining & Metals
  • 1,800 Employees & Contractors
  • Middelburg, South Africa
  • Customer Since 2012

Products & Services

  • INX InControl
  • INX InTuition
  • Data Migration
  • Training

Products & Services

  • Safety
  • Risk
  • Compliance
  • Training & Competence
  • Contractor Mobilisation
Columbus Stainless Case Study African Human Logistics

Since using INX we have eliminated duplication
by more than 80% when it comes to risk
and safety information. We have introduced
a number of new statistics and documents
to better manage our risk and increase our
compliance with both company and legislative
standards. I strongly recommend INX.

Lukas van Vuuren

Senior Risk Control Practicioner

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