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SAIMC Durban branch

December 2011 SAIMC

At the October technology evening, which was kindly hosted by Honeywell, account manager Tony White took us through ‘Virtualisation in industrial control’. We learnt about the key benefits and value that it can bring to business and Tony also shared some practical experience for builds and migrations of existing physical platforms to a virtual server.

Howard Lister thanking Tony White for his contribution
Howard Lister thanking Tony White for his contribution

Forthcoming attractions

The December Technology Evening will be hosted by Yokogawa who will provide specialist speaker, Bruce Bonte. Bruce is a qualified instrument mechanician with 22 years’ experience in the process control and instrumentation arena. He joined Yokogawa earlier this year and is currently training facilitator for Africa. It is in this role that Bruce will be looking at ‘A model to combat the skills shortage’.

Wednesday 7 December 17:30 for 18:15

Westville Country Club

1 Link Road Westville

Please contact Kevin McElroy on +27 (0)83 251 9993 or [email protected] if you have any queries.

Year-end function

The Durban branch annual function was held at The Heritage Theatre on 22 October. It was a complete sell-out and gave companies the opportunity to entertain customers in a relaxed and fun networking atmosphere. Committee member Paul Sikhakhane did a fine job as Master of Ceremonies, introducing acting chairman Vinesh Maharaj, guest speaker Ed Boje and SAIMC president, Johan Maartens, all of whom had some interesting things to say about the industry, education and of course the role of the SAIMC in the past year. The Durban committee introduced a new award this year to recognise contributions from industry and it went to Nico Marneweck from Yokogawa for Best Technology Presentation 2010/2011.

Vinesh Maharaj congratulating Nico Marneweck
Vinesh Maharaj congratulating Nico Marneweck

The food was great and the entertainment was a tribute to the much-loved country rock group, The Eagles. The band really entertained on the night doing justice to one of the biggest-selling US acts in history.

Vinesh Maharaj addressing the audience at the year-end function
Vinesh Maharaj addressing the audience at the year-end function



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