In GOD I trust
Welcome to Imre Viljoen's personal website.
Business
I live in Pretoria, South Africa and is a Director of
Ceenex (Pty) Ltd,
a SME focusing on Management, Technology and Engineering.
In 1993 I completed my studies as Industrial Engineering at the University of Pretoria (Tukkies) and has been an active player in the Engineering and Information Technology arena since then.
My areas of focus in business are:
| Business & Process simulation, modelling and optimisation (using Gensym G2, Anylogic, Simio and Rockwell Arena) |
| Strategic Alternative Evaluation Systems |
| Information Technology and Architecture |
| Management Information Systems |
| Decision Support Systems |
| Logistics and Supply-chain modelling and optimisation |
| Web based Information Systems |
| Transport Scheduling systems |
Previous companies I worked for or consulted to:
| Iscor Ltd |
| Dabmar Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd |
| Comparex Africa (Pty) Ltd (Motadata) |
| BeST (Pty) Ltd. |
| Ceenex (Pty) Ltd |
| Ford Motor Company (South Africa) |
| Atomic Energy Corporation |
| Foskor |
| ABI |
| Sappi |
| Orica (Australia) |
| Vale (CVRD) |
| Namdeb |
| Lonmin |
| Impala Platinum |
| Anglo Platinum |
| Water Research Commission (WRC) |
| Xstrata |
| Exxaro |
| RSV and RSV Enco |
Imre is a member of the Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (MSAIIE)
Imre's Technology News
Backup your data regularly
PC's come and go. Some through old age, some through component failure like a
hard-drive crash and some through catastrophic events like a burglary, flood or
fire…
Unless you don’t use your computer to do some real work, losing your data can
mean the end of your business. Imagine losing your creditors file or your client
list. This can all be avoided easily by doing regular backups.
One simple solution is to get a portable USB hard drive and using Windows Backup
to do weekly or daily backups to this device. Norton Ghost also does a very good
job in keeping your data safe. Even a USB memory stick can work great for
keeping your essential data safe.
If your data is of a sensitive nature, be sure to encrypt it to keep it from
preying eyes.
How to set 2000/XP up to receive time updates via local SNTP servers
For instructions to set up your PC to automatically update it's time to local,
South African servers, see http://www.time.za.net/
Go to Control Panel / Date and Time / Internet Time
Set it to automatically synchronize with an Internet Server and change the
server to tock.nml.csir.co.za
Alternatively, run the following command on a DOS window:
net time /setsntp:tock.nml.csir.co.za
Solution to CD-Rom problem in Explorer
In Windows XP Home edition (could not recreate on XP Professional):
If you cannot see the contents of a CD or DVD, but you are able to Autoplay
without problem, or when you click on your CD-drive in explorer and it
automatically jumps back to your previous selection, then try the following:
1) Insert a CD in the drive
2) Right click on the CD-drive in the left pane of Windows Explorer
3) Click on Properties at the bottom of the pop-up menu
4) Click on the Recording Tab in the properties window
5) Make sure "Enable CD recording on this drive" is ticked - if it wasn't, then
your problem should be solved by ticking it and applying changes. If it was, try
un-ticking it, apply, tick it, apply.
Passions and Hobbies
Music
I am a proud member of the
Pretoria Male
Choir (Pretoria Mannekoor) since 2006 as 1st Bass
Contact
Contact Imre Viljoen on the following (no unsolicited marketing please):
consulting (funny A sign) imre (dot) co (dot) za
Tel: +27 (83) 271 8615
Postal address:
PO Box 319, Willow Acres, Pretoria, 0095