MESA Africa Exco for 2016

March 2016 News

The new MESA Africa Exco committee voted in and accepted effective 24 January is as follows:

• Gerhard Greef, Bytes Universal Systems (chairman).

• Andre Brits, Control Systems.

• Chris Mollison, Scheduling Solutions.

• Nick Stead, OSISoft.

• Gerhard Hattingh, Siemens.

• Jonathan Meyer, Exxaro.

• Daniel Spies, CDS Consulting SA.

• Deon Barnard, Wonderware.

• Gawie Reyneke, Lonmin.

• Quintin McCutcheon, Schneider Electric.

• Piet Branford, BCX.

• Jacques Rossouw, Yokogawa.

Calendar of events scheduled for 2016

Special interest groups (SIGs):

• Manufacturing and food & beverage MES/MOM solutions – Gauteng 7 April.

• Topic to be announced – KZN 14 July.

• MES/MOM solutions for MMM – Gauteng 21 July.

MESA GEP training:

• Gauteng 17-20 May – register at http://tinyurl.com/j66ftfr

• 8th Annual MESA Africa Conference – Gauteng 17-18 Nov conference@mesa.co.za

For more information contact Jane Collett, MESA Africa, +27 (0)82 528 1238, marketing@mesa.co.za, www.mesa.org

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