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From the Editor's Desk

Suppliers to watch out for fraudsters
September 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Early in August a colleague told me that one of our clients, Test and Measurement Instruments, had just been the victim of a sneaky fraud. So I called Joe Dos Santos to learn how these characters work. ...

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Competitive advantage through technology
August 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
On a recent trip to 'rural' Italy, I stayed in a family-run hotel on the Amalfi Coast. I was pleasantly surprised that the 20-room hotel sported some of the best automation technologies available. To ...

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Keeping the ball rolling
July 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Unless you are reading a passed-along copy of SA Instrumentation & Control, some time in the near future you should be receiving a 'Circulation Reclassification Form'. It is important that this is filled ...

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Technews publications leading the way forward
June 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
It seems that every time I write one of these columns, I am able to report on some new development of one of the magazines in the Technews stable. Last time it was regarding the launch of SA Instrumentation ...

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Why not just do it right in the first place?
May 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
In response to our control loop special, reader Richard Compére believes that loop optimisation is often a case of too little, too late. He has observed increased divergence between the disciplines involved. ...

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Control loop bonanza issue
March 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
If there is one thing that should have become quite clear to anybody reading this magazine over the last half-decade or so, it is that there is a general lack of `feel' for what happens in control loops ...

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Changing the demographics of the industry
February 2005, News
With South Africa having come through a particularly tumultuous period of change, there exists an awkward imbalance in the demographics of training and experience within the population. On the one hand ...

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Accomplish something this year
January 2005, News
Wow, it is 2005 ... I am sure that there are many out there like myself: - We kind of grew so used to writing nineteen hundred and something for the year that it was almost surreal to imagine ever writing ...

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Engen Refinery responds
November 2004, News
SA Instrumentation & Control thanks Engen Refinery for its response to the invitation extended to Sapref, Engen and Sasol to give their position on safety issues. See 'Safety measures at Engen'.       Four ...

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A snail race
October 2004, News
Quoting from our last issue: 'Bhopal 20 years on - could it happen here?' Graeme Bell wrote: In May 2004, SA Instrumentation & Control contacted the press offices at Sapref, Engen and Sasol. We offered ...

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Issue highlights and software wars
August 2004, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
This month's issue    Staying with the smart new style that we began using in the last issue, we have a tidy magazine that includes the usual good stuff. Some highlights include:    * Valve and Automation's ...

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New-look magazine, platinum and aerogels
July 2004, News
An even better SA I&C!    Regular readers of SA I&C will notice something different about the look of the magazine. Our publisher (ever-looking for ways to make the magazine read better) tasked the artists ...

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Oil is not well
June 2004, News
A year or few back, just to see what I would find, I did a casual search on Google for 'when will oil run out'. What I discovered was moderately disturbing. Of course we all know that the oil reserves ...

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The national poll - a secure data acquisition application
May 2004, News
Looming oil crisis? Do current oil reserves foretell a bleak future for the world's economy - is there an impending crisis that will affect us all? A study of recent literature on the subject does not ...

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