Vaal Triangle sub-branch

October 2006 SAIMC

We have been going again for almost a year now and have had good turn-outs at most of this years' meetings.

Thank you to all who have attended and a big 'thank you' to the sponsors of the meetings.

In the past few months we have had extremely interesting presentations from the following sponsors:

Endress+Hausser - level measurement principles.

H Rohloff (FLIR Systems) - infrared thermography.

Lonspeare/Blown Fibre - blown fibre-optic cables.

OMSA Valves & Instruments - ASI Bus.

Phoenix Contact - wireless BlueTooth communication.

Vega Instruments - the future of radiation-based measurement in chemical plants.

WIKA Instruments - sensors for temperature measurement.

All presentations were done by well qualified people who are specialists in their field. We would like to thank them for all the time and effort put into these presentations.

If you need any information on any of the above presentations, please contact us and we will refer you to the relevant persons.

Please feel free to join us at 18h00 at the Vanderbijl Cricket and Hockey Club for our next meeting.

For more information contact Karl Engelbrecht, karl.engelbrecht@metso.com, or Colin Simms, colinsimms@omsa.co.za

Further reading:

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Hendrik Spies of SICK Automation Southern Africa presented at the SAIMC Johannesburg Technology Evening on 12 August 2026, covering the digital journey from condition monitoring to predictive maintenance.

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SAIMC: Johannesburg branch: Distilled to perfection: Women’s Month gin experience
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The SAIMC Johannesburg branch celebrated Ladies Month with a gin tasting event.

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SAIMC: Durban branch
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The SAIMC Durban branch hosted S’yabonga Langa, systems performance engineer at eThekwini Electricity, who presented on applying substation automation to improve operational efficiency and service quality in modern power distribution networks.

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SAIMC INSPIRE conference extends abstract submission deadline
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SAIMC: Durban Technology Evening
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The SAIMC Durban branch hosted a Technology Evening on mobile machine automation.

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SAIMC: Eastern Cape branch
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SAIMC: Johannesburg Technology Evening
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The SAIMC Johannesburg Branch July Technology Evening, hosted by WIKA Instruments, covered key level measurement technologies and featured live product demonstrations from area sales manager Anthony Terblanche.

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International robotics conference streams live to Africa
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The SAIMC hosted five live-stream viewing events across South Africa for the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation in Vienna, bringing global robotics research and technology directly to local industry and academia.

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