SAIMC


Durban branch

August 2011 SAIMC

Inaugural award for best regional C&I project 2011

The Durban branch is proud to announce its latest initiative to recognise the outstanding work carried out by our colleagues in the automation and instrumentation field. This new annual award is open to all C&I vendors, SIs or end-users who are either based in KZN or have completed a project in the region during the period August 2010 to July 2011. The presentation will take place at our prestigious annual dinner in the form of a plaque to be displayed at the winning site.

The primary criteria for judging will be complexity, innovation, scale of implementation, technology used and end-user satisfaction. Interested parties are invited to send a one page description of the project to jane@technews.co.za by 15 August 2011.

Forthcoming attractions

Modern industrial communication – Profinet

At the next Technology Evening, Calvin Madilonga, industrial communications product manager at Siemens, will give a presentation on Profinet covering aspects such as: communication structure; shared devices; I-Device; PROFIenergy; availability and redundancy; addressing and sub-netting and diagnostics.

Please note date change from usual first Wednesday format!

Wednesday 10 August 2011

Venue: Westville Country Club

1 Link Road, Westville.

Please contact John Owen-Ellis with any queries, owenellisjohn54@gmail.com or +27 (0)82 336 2938.

The committee encourages members and interested parties to attend this meeting.

Dinner and drinks will be provided to members. Non members are requested to pay R50 per head.



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