The Durban technology evening was held on 6 October at the Westville Country Club. It was clear from the excellent attendance that the topic was one that attracted wide interest. Gary Friend, sales director of Extech gave a very interesting and excellently presented talk about protection methods for electrical circuits in hazardous sreas, with special focus on intrinsic safety which is the preferred protection technique for many instrumentation installations. He reviewed hazardous area zone classification before covering the origins and principles of IS and the implications for dusts. It was noted that whereas the discharge of electrical energy was the major concern in the case of gases, in the case of dust the surface temperature was generally of greater significance. The use and specific advantages of zener barriers and galvanic isolators in a variety of practical situations were examined and compared, and he summarised the principles of loop design to accommodate both safety and operational requirements before moving on to show how approvals are done and how maximum usable cable lengths are calculated. The presentation ended with a brief look at IS for fieldbus and for Ethernet.
Presenter, Gary Friend seen shaking hands with Vinesh Maharaj
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At the monthly meeting of the Durban branch of the SAIMC, Smunye Memela, project manager and switch gear specialist at Gubhuza 3 Trading presented on the subject ‘From sensors to insights: predictive maintenance in action’.
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SAIMC will host a technical knowledge-sharing session by Hendrik Spies from SICK Sensor Intelligence, who will share his insights into ‘From Condition Monitoring to Predictive Maintenance: The Digital Journey’.
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AI has become part of our productivity platforms, our operations and our decision making environments. The SAIMC NPC Power Hour series is one such initiative.
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