The branch held its first virtual meeting and sticking to ‘old regimes’ it was held on the first Wednesday of the month, but sadly not at the Durban Country Club. We were encouraged by the attendance which, whilst not as good as our real-life meetings, was pleasing and we are looking forward to getting back into a steady routine that will help get our regulars back on track.
Ralph White.
A big thank you to ifm electronic for their kind participation and presenting on the most interesting topic: ‘Condition monitoring on gearboxes including a short case study on a ball mill gearbox failure analysis’. Ralph White, business development manager for the condition monitoring systems division at ifm, was our presenter for the evening and was articulate and knowledgeable. He has been working at ifm for over nine years and is a qualified electrician with his wireman’s licence, a level 1 thermographer and a category 3 vibration analyst with experience in many different industries, so he was very well qualified to present on this topic.
Conditioning monitoring is sometimes a neglected topic that is given insufficient attention, yet it is one of the many ways in which instrumentation can be applied very effectively to minimise the risk of unexpected equipment failure. Proper application can be an effective aid to scheduling planned maintenance shutdowns and hence benefit the bottom line. Ralph’s presentation covered all this comprehensively and sparked much interest from the (virtual) audience as the questions flew thick and fast.
We are working on a plan of action to ensure that members can still get CPD points, so watch this space!
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, SAIMC The new mechatronics qualification For the last few weeks there has been a team working on the new Mechatronics Discipline Specific Training Guidelines (DSTG). The team consisted of: • Henry Heymans ...
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At the last technology evening, Ralph White from ifm electronic presented on the topic of vibration monitoring and how it provides the ability to detect changes in machine health. Once a machine’s condition ...
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The technical evening of 14 October was once again presented via Microsoft Teams.
How do we approach HMI and camera solutions in Ex environments? This was explained by Diogo Fidalgo from Stahl. Most ...
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, SAIMC Explaining the Skills Development Trust Fund
For the benefit of members, the SAIMC plans host a one-hour presentation to explain the Skills Development Trust Fund. This presentation will be repeated ...
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As South Africa celebrated Women’s Month in August, the Vaal branch and Proconics decided to celebrate women in engineering with a technical evening highlighting the importance of a diverse team for solving ...
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, SAIMC September Virtual Meeting The September virtual technology evening was hosted by Turck Banner, and presented by newly appointed sales director, Kenneth McPherson.
Kenneth is enthusiastic about ...
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Paul Sikhakhane was the presenter at the last Durban branch virtual technology meeting and the subject was ‘Living on the edge’. The meeting was well attended, with lots of interaction and questions afterwards ...
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As South Africa celebrated Women’s Month in August, the Vaal branch and Proconics decided to celebrate women in engineering with a technical evening highlighting the importance of a diverse team for solving ...
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The August virtual technology evening was hosted by Eric Carter of turboTRAIN on the subject ‘Instrumentation fault finding: why it is problematic and what can be done about it’.
During the presentation ...
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