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 ...
Read more...SAIMC: Cape Town branch February 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC What an interesting year 2020 was and we are looking forward to an exciting 2021.
The branch recently held its annual AGM and elected new branch management team. This event was a hybrid meeting where ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch February 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The branch held its AGM via Skype on 20 January. It was well attended and followed the usual protocol with the branch manager’s report, financial report and voting. Branch manager Ann de Beer reported ...
Read more...SAIMC: From the office of the CEO February 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC In the last few publications we looked at the newly envisaged mechatronics qualification. We looked at the different groups within mechatronics as was recommended to ECSA, namely: factory automation, ...
Read more...SAIMC: From the office of the CEO November 2020, SAIMC, SAIMC The new mechatronics qualification For the last few weeks there has been a team working on the new Mechatronics Discipline Specific Training Guidelines (DSTG). The team consisted of: • Henry Heymans ...
Read more...SAIMC: Durban branch January 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC On 4 November, Rob Wright, MD of RJ Connect, gave an informative presentation on the subject of cybersecurity to Durban branch members and anyone else who joined the open invitation Microsoft Teams meeting. ...
Read more...SAIMC: Cape Town branch January 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The last month will be remembered as an exciting one where the branch facilitated two technical evenings, hosted by Proconics and Yokogawa. We also hosted our first technical evening where members could ...
Read more...SAIMC: Vaal branch January 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC The end of the year can be an emotional time for all of us. Was this your best year yet, or not so great? You start to get a feel as the end approaches, and 2020 is no exception, especially with the ‘new ...
Read more...SAIMC: From the office of the CEO January 2021, SAIMC, SAIMC Last month I spoke about the new mechatronics engineering discipline. It has quite an impact on SAIMC members, as previously we had to register and be interviewed by electrical or mechanical professionals. ...
Read more...SAIMC: Vaal branch November 2020, SAIMC, SAIMC At the last technology evening, Ralph White from ifm electronic presented on the topic of vibration monitoring and how it provides the ability to detect changes in machine health. Once a machine’s condition ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch November 2020, SAIMC, SAIMC The technical evening of 14 October was once again presented via Microsoft Teams.
How do we approach HMI and camera solutions in Ex environments? This was explained by Diogo Fidalgo from Stahl. Most ...
Read more...SAIMC: Johannesburg branch August 2020, SAIMC, SAIMC Robert Wright of RJConnect discussed cyber security with the SAIMC members at the technology evening on 8 July. In this period, when so many people are working remotely and have meetings online, just ...
Read more...SAIMC: Vaal branch August 2020, SAIMC, SAIMC At the technology evening on Wednesday 1 July, Rob Burns from Pepperl+Fuchs presented on Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer (APL) and the concepts and implications for the IIoT, collaboration, applications ...
