Doing Support Better: Keeping Ships at Sea

Support Modelling & Analysis (SM&A) Workshop – 29 Sep 2026

The ability to keep ships operational, affordable, and mission-ready is becoming increasingly challenging. Across defence, maritime industry, and fisheries, organisations face ageing fleets, constrained budgets, growing obsolescence, supply chain delays, and increasing pressure to maintain availability.
Join maritime professionals from the South African Navy, industry, academia, and international experts for a focused workshop exploring practical approaches to Doing Support Better through improved support engineering, decision-making, and Support Modelling & Analysis (SM&A).

International Keynote Address

Mr Allan Goody, Air Commodore RAF (Retired), Chairman, UK Chapter of the Council of Logistics Engineering Professionals (UK CLEP)
“Doing Support Better”
Drawing on the UK Defence Do Support Better initiative, Mr Goody will share international perspectives on improving readiness, availability, affordability, resilience, and support effectiveness through better supportability engineering, analysis, governance, and evidence-based decision-making.

Additional Contributors

• Director Fleet Logistics, South African Navy
• President, SAIMENA
• Kobus Huisamen (Reutech Solutions)
• TFD Europe & TFD Africa
• Industry and academic representatives

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Event Details

📍 CPUT Granger Bay Campus, Cape Town
🕒 Half-Day Workshop followed by Networking Lunch
💰 Free of Charge
⚠ Limited to 20 SAIMENA Members
✅ Registration Required

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👉 Register for the Workshop

This workshop forms part of a broader initiative to build collaboration between defence, industry, and academia while exploring emerging approaches to sustainment, support engineering, digital engineering, and data-driven decision-making.

We encourage interested members to register early as places are limited.
Online attendance (registration required) does not have a limit of attendance.

CPD credits will be issued by SAIMENA.