Durban branch November 2009, SAIMC Forthcoming attractions:Tuesday 27 October – Durban SAIMC Technology Evening: Johan Hamman, managing director of DesSoft Design Software will be discussing the necessity of plant documentation (company ...
Zambia - Mufulira sub-branch November 2009, SAIMC Gabriel Kapumpe, chairman of the SAIMC Mufulira sub-branch in Zambia, reports:
A technical study group from Mufulira visited the Indeni petroleum refinery in Ndola – Zambia’s largest oil refinery – ...
Secunda branch November 2009, SAIMC The September Technology Evening was sponsored by WIKA, and Ralf Hesse gave us a presentation on thermowells. Many of us never realised the amount of work that goes into the design and manufacturing of ...
From the president's desk October 2009, SAIMC It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of our vice president, Peter Zietsman. Peter was one of the founder members of the Secunda branch 15 years ago and has actively served as branch ...
Secunda branch October 2009, SAIMC The August technology evening was sponsored by Extech Safety Systems. Gary Friend presented on a very interesting topic: ‘Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Systems’. We once again had a good attendance from ...
Cape Town branch October 2009, SAIMC For the Cape Town branch of the SAIMC 2009 began with a history lesson taking us back to the basics of engineering approaches. This was thanks to Hendrik Keyzer of Real-Time Solutions who delivered a ...
Durban branch October 2009, SAIMC At the Durban Technology Evening on 2 September, Ian Loudon of Omniflex gave an interesting presentation on ‘Bulk storage and tank management’ which included best practice integration of remote monitoring ...
From the president's desk September 2009, SAIMC Our innovations committee headed by Johan Maartens is constantly tabling new ideas and proposals to help us work more efficiently, thus adding benefits to both our members and patrons. The 2009 Council ...
Durban branch September 2009, SAIMC At the SAIMC Durban technology evening held on 5 August the enthusiastic turnout was treated to an interesting presentation by Cindy Montague of Schneider Electric on Schneider’s involvement in the Durban, ...
From the president's desk August 2009, SAIMC We thank our Patrons. The SAIMC is the institute of choice for all persons and organisations working in the automation, measurement and control industry. Companies associated with this business; either ...
Johannesburg branch August 2009, SAIMC Attendance has been on the up this year, largely thanks to some very interesting presenters – Gary Friend of Extech (on Foundation Fieldbus implementation); Conrad Mueller of Beckhoff on EtherCat; and ...
Secunda branch August 2009, SAIMC The Technology Evening held in June was very successful. We all thought that the attendance would be down from previous months due to the very cold weather we have been experiencing on the Highveld. Much ...
Durban branch August 2009, SAIMC At the Durban branch Technology Evening in August Dave Wibberley gave an entertaining presentation on alarm management coupled with a fascinating video on the value of data by Hans Rosling. Dave used ...
From the president's desk July 2009, SAIMC Every time I sign into my e-mail there are new membership applications awaiting approval. We have had a flood of new applications over the past two months. Together with chasing up 2009 fees and processing ...
Secunda branch July 2009, SAIMC May 2009 has once again been a very busy month for the Secunda branch. It started with the technology evening hosted by VEGA Instruments. Clint Viviers gave a very interesting presentation on nuclear ...
Johannesburg branch July 2009, SAIMC What you missed in May
Gary Friend of Extech Safety Systems gave a fascinating presentation on the conceptual differences between fieldbus (especially Foundation Fieldbus) and 4–20 mA. He pointed out ...
Durban branch July 2009, SAIMC Frikkie van Zyl and Piet van Huyssteen gave an enlightening presentation at the last Durban branch technology evening. Both were members of the team from North West University who won the 2008 Siemens ...
From the president's desk June 2009, SAIMC Fifty-first year of the SAIMC and still the ‘Institute of Choice’: this is truly an achievement and our membership in 2009 has been growing at a phenomenal rate. Membership applications completed on our ...
Durban branch news June 2009, SAIMC At the Durban branch May meeting we were delighted to host Johannes de Vries (M-TECH Electrical Engineering) Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). De Vries is excited about all things robotic and addressed ...
July technology evening June 2009, SAIMC The topic for the July technology evening organised by the Durban branch of the SAIMC will be Alarm Management and will be held on Wednesday 1 July 2009. Dave Wibberley, who will be presenting this paper, ...
