SAPICS awards recognise excellence May 2007 Outstanding students and educators were recently recognised at South Africa's first Supply Chain Management Education Excellence Awards, hosted by the Federation for Supply Chain Management Associations ...
Sustain 2007 focuses on the environment May 2007 As the global environment continues to suffer a loss of biodiversity, the depletion of fish stocks, desertification and the adverse effects of climate change, the world continues to search for sustainable ...
30% of Siemens Limited now under black ownership May 2007 While some multinationals in South Africa have raised questions around the issue of BEE and the implementation of affirmative shareholding structures, Siemens Southern Africa has announced that Linacre ...
Meter Systems Imex opens Western Cape branch May 2007 Meter Systems Imex has undergone a substantial review of focus in recent months, with an emphasis on a move back to its original core of competency to provide complete solutions to customers' fluid transfer, ...
SAPICS 2007 Conference May 2007 The 29th SAPICS Conference and Exhibition takes place at Sun City from 3 to 6 June 2007.
The Association for Operations Management of Southern Africa (SAPICS) aims to increase attendance of this year's ...
Schneider sponsors SAIMC education initiative May 2007 Schneider Electric South Africa has provided an education sponsorship to the South African Institute of Measurement and Control (SAIMC). For several years Schneider has provided this education sponsorship ...
Appointments May 2007 Endress+Hauser has announced the appointment of Hennie Blignaut to the position of marketing manager.
Endress+Hauser has announced the permanent appointment of Syd Thoresson to the position of projects ...
Controlling the bushveld? May 2007 On the border of the internationally renowned Kruger National Park, in the heart of the African bush was the destination of the latest Control Roadshow. A wonderful setting for the gathering of like-minded ...
Cellulose plant capacity increase for Sappi Saiccor May 2007, ABB South Africa ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded a $32-million order from Sappi Saiccor for upgrading what is claimed to be the world's largest chemical cellulose plant, located ...
Lead is dead at E+H May 2007, Endress+Hauser South Africa Endress+Hauser is leaving the 'Lead Age' behind. The company has been working hard at eliminating the toxic heavy metal from all of its electronic components - voluntarily implementing a new European ...
Westplex gets new vision May 2007, Westplex Westplex has been appointed authorised South African distributors for Cognex vision sensors and vision software.
Cognex, a leading manufacturer of machine vision systems, boasts of having shipped over ...
Winning with Wonderware May 2007 If there is a single word that can characterise the 20th century, it would have to be technology. Flying went from Kitty Hawk to the International Space Station, telecommunications abandoned fabric-covered ...
Let us get the communications going May 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) Well, what a whirlwind introduction to the world of publishing and editing. At the beginning of March I would not have known a sidebar if I had fallen over one and now I even know how to pull quotes!
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News digest May 2007 International newsUSA: Honeywell recently announced an agreement with Invista, one of the world's largest integrated fibres and polymers manufacturers. The new agreement will enable Invista to take ...
Profiling Motion Tronic May 2007 Motion Tronic was established by Bradley Douglas in June 2003 under the name of Getback Electronics. With Bradley's extensive experience in the management of industrial electronic repair services it is ...
The Jim Pinto column: automation knowledge and innovation May 2007 Automation education
Everything starts with education. Consider training in the US: there are excellent engineering classes, supported by local and state schools, colleges and universities. However, ...
South African invents third-generation shape display April 2007 A South-African inventor has invented and applied to patent (what he refers to as) a third-generation shape-based display technology where such information as a process variable or a set of process variables ...
Appointments April 2007 SEW Eurodrive has appointed Clint Brooke as internal sales engineer. SEW Eurodrive has appointed Clinton Foster as sales engineer.
Franscois Liebenberg has been appointed as responsible person, ...