SAIMC: From the office of the CEO May 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC In my last letter, I discussed the lack of skills available to operate and maintain our infrastructure. This month, I present a more specific look at the critical skills required in manufacturing, which ...
Read more...SAIMC: Durban branch May 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The branch held its April (virtual) technology evening on 7 April where SAIMC CEO, Johan Maartens, discussed the new skills trust fund initiative: how it works, how we will all benefit from it and how ...
Read more...SAIMC: Cape Town branch April 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC We had an interesting presentation last month given by Allan Pead from Microsoft on the open source platform from Microsoft Azure Sphere – a secure IoT platform.
Allan is currently an Xamarin ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch April 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The technology evening was once again hosted virtually and this time it was the turn of Albert Louw from ifm electronic, presenting on the topic: Systems for mobile machinery.
One could ask the question, ...
Read more...SAIMC: Durban branch April 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC Members and visitors were treated to a Zoom presentation that had the understated title: Introduction to ultrasonic flow measurement, by Marco Lopes of NIC KZN. Marco was ably backed up by Howard Lister, ...
Read more...SAIMC: Durban branch March 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The branch held its first virtual technology meeting of the year on 10 February, where John de Castro (a long-time friend of the Durban SAIMC) gave us some insight into his experiences working abroad. ...
Read more...SAIMC: Vaal branch March 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC Vaal University of Technology: new qualifications and phasing out of others
Since 1994 the South African education sector has gone through many transformative and structural changes. These have focused ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch March 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC As 2021 begins, we at the Johannesburg branch are looking forward to the year as there has been a great response to our available technology evenings, which are completely full. The branch has decided ...
Read more...SAIMC: From the office of the CEO March 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC In my last letter, I committed to talking to you about the various outcomes for which applicants would need to provide evidence in order to qualify with ECSA for certification in mechatronics.
But ...
Read more...SAIMC: From the office of the CEO April 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The skills shortage is always a topical subject. It is also complex because the diverse nature of our economy leads to many different points of view. So, in my next few correspondences, I’d like to share ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch May 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC When you work in industry, be it as a supplier, manufacturer, end user, technician or engineer, you cannot take a road trip and not be amazed at the changes across our country. I had the good fortune ...
Read more...SAIMC: Ken Baker challenges all members May 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC CEO, Johan Maartens, recently received a correspondence from one of the SAIMC’s oldest members, Ken Baker. We thought it would be fun to publish it and invite you to send any similar ‘Down memory lane’ ...
Read more...SAIMC: Vaal branch February 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The branch held its AGM on 13 January, where various topics were discussed, including: • Continuation of the online technical evenings in 2021 with the possibility of face-to-face meetings subject to ...
Read more...SAIMC: Durban Branch February 2021, SAIMC The branch held its annual general meeting via Zoom on 27 January. Secretary, John Owen-Ellis, welcomed everybody and gave a brief review of 2020 which, with the death of branch general manager Hennie ...
