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Technews' founder dies - Obituary: Ray Beaumont 22/09/27-28/09/01
November 2001
It is with sadness that we announce the death of our Founder Publisher, Raymond Beaumont. Ray was an inspirational doyen of the technical press in South Africa. Leaving the safety of an academic career ...

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Siemens strengthens process automation offerings
November 2001
As one of the top five suppliers of process automation systems and number two worldwide in process control rankings, Siemens has further strengthened this position with the acquisition of Moore Process ...

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Global Africa Projects moves to new address
November 2001
Global Africa Projects, an internationally active project consulting, management and engineering company, has moved to its new physical address: 64 King Street, Irene, Centurion. Contact details are as ...

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Focus on new products at Electrex 2002
November 2001
Reed Exhibitions believes that the 'What's New' pavilion at Electrex 2002 is bound to attract the keen interest of exhibition visitors, and increase business traffic to participating exhibitors' stands. "This ...

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LG PLC training courses offered
November 2001
LG Industrial Systems SA is offering a series of in-depth PLC and HMI training courses during November, December and January, free of charge. All courses will be run at the premises of the various distributors ...

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Protea boosts service for KwaZulu-Natal
November 2001
Protea Automation Solutions has formed a new company, which will be dedicated to the sales and product development within the KwaZulu-Natal region. Entitled Protea Automation Solutions-KZN, the new company ...

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Appointments
November 2001
Sebastian Wysocki has been appointed to the position of IT Manager at Electron Technologies.       Neil Blair has joined Electron Technologies in the position of Technical Consultant.      

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Technology and applications workshop
November 2001, Spero Sensors & Instrumentation
Sperosens is running a technology and applications workshop on 6 November 2001. Focusing specifically on calorimetric flow sensors, magnetic proximity switches, infrared proximity switches and laser position ...

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Major Tech launches new 'cable care systems' subsidiary
October 2001
Major Tech has announced the launch of its new subsidiary company, Emery Flex, which will distribute cable care systems and accessories. Barry O'Leary has joined Emery Flex as Sales Director. He has ...

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Ten million rand switchgear order
October 2001, ABB South Africa
ABB has secured an order valued approximately R10m from Durban Electricity for the supply of compact SFG medium voltage (MV) switchgear over the next two years. Compact switchgear is increasingly seen ...

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Local scada software chosen for control system upgrade
October 2001, Adroit Technologies
CS Systems Integration, a division of JSE-listed CS Holdings, and a registered systems integrator for Adroit Technologies, has been given the go-ahead to replace and upgrade the existing Proscon Distributed ...

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Technical publisher leads the way in on-line technology
October 2001
IQ Publishing Corporation, the Internet publishing division of Technews, publisher of SA Instrumentation & Control, recently announced a major upgrade to its web-publishing engine. "The changes to our ...

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Giant transformers delivered in record time
October 2001, ABB South Africa
ABB supplied power transformers in record time to limit the consequences of the energy crisis in Brazil Electricity for 3,2 million people in the São Paulo region. ABB, the global technology group, supplied ...

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Winner for Bürkert Interkama tour competition
October 2001, Bürkert South Africa
Willem Bruwer (left), new General Manager of Bürkert Contromatic congratulates Jan Wahl from Sasol Synthetic Fuels in Secunda. Jan Wahl's name was drawn from over 300 entrants who took part in the Bürkert ...

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Optimising an ERP investment
October 2001
If a company only uses its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as a financial system, it is missing out on the true potential of its investment. "It is time for organisations to begin using the ...

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The benefits of burn-in
October 2001
IT industry needs reliability It is generally accepted that over 97% of all product failures will occur in the first 24 h of operation. Product burn-in 'infant mortality' in finished goods is one of ...

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Appointment
October 2001
Nico van Tonder has been appointed Johannesburg Branch Manager for Valve & Automation.      

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World-class plant maintenance seminar
September 2001
marcus evans conferences is running a seminar on plant maintenance from 7-9 November this year at the Royal Hotel in Durban. The first two days include a comparison between ...

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Unitemp appointed agency for Osram Sylvania
September 2001
Osram Sylvania has turned its heat to local industries with the appointment of Unitemp as its authorised distributor of process air heaters for the sub-Saharan African regions. The announcement comes ...

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Instralec acquires new agency
September 2001
Pinetown-based instrumentation company, Instralec, has recently been appointed the sole southern African distributor for BJM Corporation's range of motor circuit analysers. These analysers provide instantaneous ...

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