Schauenburg Systems enables safer, connected mining
Schauenburg Systems Operations Director Ettiene Pretorius, Sales & Business Development Manager Nicky Swanepoel and Sales Executive Bruce Makua spoke to Engineering News & Mining Weekly during the Electra Mining Africa event, held in Johannesburg from 7 to 11 September 2026. Camerawork: Shadwyn Dickinson. Editing: Darlene Creamer.
Schauenburg Systems is a South African-based technology and solutions provider serving the mining and industrial sectors across Africa and beyond. The company specialises in designing, integrating and supporting intelligent safety, communication and digital infrastructure systems that enhance operational performance, regulatory compliance and workforce protection.
Its solutions include real-time workforce locator systems, providing continuous visibility of personnel to support safety oversight, emergency response and operational optimisation. ProXYmus, its next-generation collision prevention and proximity detection solution, enhances vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-person awareness while supporting zero-harm strategies.
Schauenburg also provides Lamproom Management Solutions, environmental and gas monitoring systems, and SmartMine IoT – an open-architecture digital mining framework integrating IoT, AI and machine learning. SmartMine connects workforce visibility, collision prevention, environmental monitoring and asset management into a unified digital ecosystem, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved risk management.
What differentiates Schauenburg Systems is its integrated systems approach, combining interconnected technologies to improve safety, compliance and productivity. Driven by its purpose of “Innovation That Saves”, the company continues to develop practical technologies that protect people, optimise performance and support connected, sustainable mining operations.
Schauenburg Systems Operations Director Ettiene Pretorius, Sales & Business Development Manager Nicky Swanepoel and Sales Executive Bruce Makua spoke to Engineering News & Mining Weekly during the Electra Mining Africa event, held in Johannesburg from 7 to 11 September 2026.
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