The AGM was held on the 13 February at Umhambi Lodge. The election process could not be done using the online voting system, so a manual system was used. Invitations were sent out to the members to nominate the people they wanted to lead them in 2013. A total of 18 nominations were received, of which 13 members were nominated. Nine accepted the nominations.
L to R Wilson Maminimini, Terrence Marran, Mervyn Govender, Farai Pasipamire, Peter Molokoane, Vusi Nene, Charles Jalazi (not in picture Pieter Becker and Jan Schallies).
The first meeting of the new committee was held on the 22 February and the portfolios were allocated as follows:
Chairman: Mervyn Govender
Vice chairman: Peter Molokoane
Treasurer: Wilson Maminimini
Secretary: Farai Pasipamire
Committee member: Vusi Nene
Committee member: Charles Jalazi
Committee member: Jan Schallies
Committee member: Pieter Becker
Committee member: Terrence Marran
February technology evening
The February technology evening was held at Umhambi Lodge. The director of DesSoft, Johan Hamman, did a presentation on the topic: Design engineering software for instrumentation, electrical and process engineers.
Left: Director for DesSoft, Johan Hamman with Mervyn Govender, Chairman SAIMC Richards Bay.
Johan kicked off by introducing DesSoft and the range of products which includes P&ID, 1Des (FDes+EDes), Drive, 1Eng, RDes as well as 1view. The 1Des is a combination of the FDes, a fieldbus and instrumentation design software and the EDes electrical design software. 1Des is a relational database system that ensures accurate data entry, which means data resides in one place and changes only have to be made once to reflect on all documents.
From one database, loop diagrams, cable connection diagrams, wire connection diagrams, termination connection diagrams, fieldbus and Ethernet layout diagrams can be generated and updated. One important tool is the redlining functionality where changes made can be flagged on the drawings from the viewer and once changes are accepted they will be updated and reflected on all drawings. Johan did a demonstration where he generated drawings from scratch to prove the potency of the software.
Lastly, he also spoke about the new software coming in 2013 which will be compatible with Windows 8 and tablet ready.
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