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Catch them young
April 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Before a school-going learner can aspire to a particular career and select an appropriate tertiary education path he or she needs to know that such a career exists. Youngsters of today become aware of ...

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A great innings and infrastructural investment
March 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
A hundred not out! In this month’s issue we publish Michael Brown’s one hundredth control loop case history. Mike began his new career in loop tuning and optimisation in 1989 when a friend of his, who ...

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Recycling, politics and prosperity
February 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Recycling engineers With the ever-present mantra of 'skills shortages' perhaps we should take a leaf, if you will excuse the pun, from the green environment movement. The essence of this movement's philosophy ...

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The year ahead
January 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Well, here we are in a new year with opportunities for new beginnings. What we can expect in 2008 as I&C practitioners. What should we be looking out for and where should we be directing our attention this ...

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Market mechanisms and shuttle safety
December 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Market mechanisms and skills In a capitalist society the driving forces are of an economic nature. The price and availability of goods and services are primarily determined by supply and demand; and ...

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Chocolate, collaboration and currency
October 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
The new CD-ROM, ISA-99 Security Guidelines and User Resources for Industrial Automation and Control Systems, contains critical industry technical reports, reference books, and resource papers: an important ...

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Microgenerators and macroeconomics
September 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
One of the great things about being editor of a technology magazine is that someone actually pays me to keep up to date with technology and the businesses in this field - and I come across some fascinating ...

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Poaching, prediction and Pac-Man
August 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
In this edition of SA Instrumentation and Control we report on the loss to our I&C community of two well-known personalities: the one retiring and the other through promotion to his company's global operation ...

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Systems and standards sustain sanity
July 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
"I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy."    Joseph Heller    Something Happened Can you relate to this? The business of business is not simple. We probably all wish ...

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Of competition and cooperation
June 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
It is interesting to live in these times when the Web is changing so many things. Our whole social structure is being influenced by it and this spins off onto our private and business lives. At a meeting ...

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Let us get the communications going
May 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Well, what a whirlwind introduction to the world of publishing and editing. At the beginning of March I would not have known a sidebar if I had fallen over one and now I even know how to pull quotes! Jokes ...

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Eye-catching content
April 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
The front cover of this issue can certainly be described as 'eye-catching'. No doubt the subject will create as much discussion amongst our readers as it did amongst our own staff. On the one hand, I ...

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Pay engineers salaries equitable with lawyers
March 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
When was the last time you heard of a South African lawyer giving his client a refund after the lawyer failed to successfully defend his client in court? Has your doctor ever given you a refund after ...

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Power outages bad news for SA
February 2007, Technews Publishing, News
Many of us were affected by the recent countrywide power cuts. In fact this February issue of SA Instrumentation & Control went to print late due to power outages in the KwaZulu-Natal area where the printing ...

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