SA Instrumentation & Control (instrumentation.co.za) turns 21 years old this month. To date, SA I&C has produced approximately 252 issues (20 160 pages) that have been circulated to more than 5500 readers. This equates to more than 110 million printed A4 pages!
Launched in 1984 by that doyen of the technical press in South Africa, Ray Beaumont, the magazine was first called 'Computech'. Ray's entrepreneurship and engineering shone through, and by the middle of the 1980s Technews had established itself as the leading South African technical publisher. The key lay in Ray's keen appreciation of the need to marry technical reliability with the needs of the market. Ray also held to an unwavering belief in the need to conduct business ethically. Prior to his deceasing in 2001, Ray founded a host of other award-winning magazines, including Dataweek (dataweek.co.za), CG (cgweb.co.za) and Hi-Tech Security Solutions (securitysa.com), all of which still constitute the core of the Technews stable.
Ray also garnered support of world-class editorial contributors such as Michael Brown (author of our regular Control Loop column) and award-winning journalist, Maurice McDowell.
As the nature of the control and automation industry changed with emerging technologies, the decision was made to re-brand Computech to SA Instrumentation & Control. SA I&C was then joined by the annual SA Instrumentation & Control Buyers' Guide (ibg.co.za), making the twin publications the definitive part of the process control practitioner's library.
SA I&C was also appointed as the official publication of the South African Institute of Measurement & Control (saimc.org.za) Regular news and events pertaining to the Institute is carried in every issue of the journal.
During early 2000, Technews launched the online version of all its magazines and buyers' guides. To date, SA I&C's online version has more than 5500 archived reference articles, complementing a significant portion of the more than online 20 000 articles on the Technews web portal. The portal currently serves in excess of 1 GB of traffic per day, 60% of this traffic being served to South African Internet users.
Technews takes the opportunity of thanking its SA I&C's readers and its advertisers for the continuing loyalty and support - without you there would be no need for our existence. We also thank our brilliant editorial, production and administrative teams for their contribution to making this the outstanding publication that it is.
Graeme Bell
Managing editor: SA Instrumentation & Control
John Gibbs
Editor
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