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SAIMC: Tshwane branch
February 2019, SAIMC
The highlight of 2018 was the annual dinner enjoyed by branch members and the committee at Cheers in Irene. We were also very fortunate to have Ina and Johan Maartens join us towards the end of the evening. The ...

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SAIMC: Johannesburg branch
February 2019, SAIMC
Happy New Year from the Johannesburg team The year has kicked off with barely a bump in the road and being back at work you realise that nothing much has changed. Except our attitudes, starting the year ...

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SAIMC: Durban branch
February 2019, SAIMC
Technology evening The final technology evening of 2018 was held on the 5 December at the Durban Country Club. Ajanth Sewpersad, sales engineer for SICK Automation, gave an informative and well-balanced ...

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SAIMC: From the President’s desk
January 2019, SAIMC
As we all prepare for 2019 and what it holds, we are standing in front of an open door with access to new opportunities. I would like to take this opportunity to urge you to consider becoming more actively ...

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SAIMC: Zambia branch
January 2019, SAIMC
Year-end function It was a cool and pensive night on the Copper Belt in the Zambias. At a quiet well-established lodge, lush with natural flora and fauna, as well as exotic orchid and cycad landscape ...

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SAIMC: Durban branch
January 2019, SAIMC
The monthly technology evening was held on 7 November at the Durban Country Club. Verlan Govender of Swagelok gave an interesting presentation on the basics and principles of hoses, to an audience which ...

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SAIMC: Secunda branch
January 2019, SAIMC
Site visit The branch had visited the Metso Secunda valve shop on Friday 2 November. Johan van den Heever and the Metso Secunda team gave members a detailed tour of their site and the equipment they ...

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SAIMC: From the President’s desk
December 2018, SAIMC
As we enter the final days of 2018, I would like to take a moment to reflect and thank those who contributed to an amazing year of achievement for the SAIMC. This year was about action, and it is my honour ...

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SAIMC: Vaal branch
December 2018, SAIMC
At the last technology evening, Yokogawa’s Bruce Bonte presented “An Introduction to ISA100.11a Wireless Technology”. Bruce has served the instrumentation industry for 30 years, having worked at Tongaat ...

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SAIMC: Tshwane branch
December 2018, SAIMC
At the October technology evening, Reino Janse from Swagelok presented on ‘Regulator Issues’. The presentation, which is available to interested members, touched on topics such as main types of pressure ...

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SAIMC: Secunda branch
December 2018, SAIMC
The technology evening for August was presented by Lourens du Plessis, principal specialist for functional safety at Sasol. As defined in the IEC standards, there are four safety integrity levels (SIL ...

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SAIMC: Johannesburg branch
December 2018, SAIMC
At the last technology evening Dave Wibberley, managing director of Adroit Technologies, presented on ‘New perspective on smart factories in the context of Industry 4.0 and IOT’ with regards to sustainability, ...

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SAIMC: Durban branch
December 2018, SAIMC
2018 was a busy and successful year for the branch culminating in us receiving the Platinum Award at the annual gala dinner. We will undoubtedly, as the SAIMC, do everything possible to increase our ...

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SAIMC: An evening to remember
December 2018, SAIMC
SAIMC’s prestigious annual dinner was once again held at the Montecasino Ballroom. In addition to senior council members, also present were VIP guests from the DTI and the National Technologies Implementation ...

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SAIMC: From the President’s desk
November 2018, SAIMC
Earlier this year, I enquired in one of my letters, that you ask yourself if you know where we are heading in the future with respect to the fields of Industry 4.0, automation, digitalisation and education ...

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SAIMC: Durban branch
November 2018, SAIMC
Despite the arctic weather conditions, an impressive number of people came out to listen to Dr. Mathew Moodley (Senior lecturer at the School for Chemistry and Physics, Westville University of KZN) gave ...

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SAIMC: Vaal branch
November 2018, SAIMC
The September technology evening presentation was sponsored by SICK Automation and presented by Robert de Scande, the company’s product manager for presence detection, encoders and industrial instrumentation. ...

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SAIMC: Secunda branch
November 2018, SAIMC
Annual high-tea    On 17 August, the branch hosted its third annual high-tea for ladies in the instrumentation and control field. Due to the high level of interest the event had to be moved to a bigger ...

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SAIMC: Tshwane branch
November 2018, SAIMC
At the September technology evening, the branch was fortunate to have Bruce Bonte from Yokogawa present on ISA100.11A wireless technology. The presentation included topics such as an introduction to ISA100.11A, ...

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SAIMC: Johannesburg branch
November 2018, SAIMC
At the last technology evening, hosted by Endress+Hauser, Frans van den Berg presented on Heartbeat Technology, and Jenine Jansen van Vuuren spoke about calibration in conjunction with Heartbeat.    Heartbeat ...

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