June has been an incredible month for me! With a background in mechanical engineering, publishing is a whole new world for me and I basically had to hit the ground running. However, I am confident that ...
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As we have indicated over recent issues of SA Instrumentation & Control, this is the last issue of the magazine that editor, John Gibbs, will be directly involved in. Some of the material used in future ...
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Welcome to a bumper issue of SA Instrumentation & Control!    This larger-than-normal issue of SAI&C coincides with the launch of the new look instrumentation.co.za website. The new site has been optimised, ...
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Moving on Something of a sudden move to many - I will be leaving Technews Publishing shortly (officially at the end of May) - so my last contributions to SA Instrumentation and Control will likely be ...
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After reading the 'UniTemp now open for calibrations' news item in our last issue (February 2006), Steve Sidney, manager of the National Laboratory Association raised some concerns in a letter to the ...
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South Africa already has some impressive industry on the go and, technologically, South Africans have accomplished some remarkable things, including the first heart transplants, the CAT-scan machine (was ...
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In trying to forecast what trends and breakthroughs we are likely to see in 2006, I, as a confirmed 'geek and gadget-freak', have come to the conclusion that previous inventors have set exceptionally ...
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Over the last six years we saw the firming of the rand and the lowering of interest rates and our economy has now entered its seventh year of expansion. Residential property developments have been mushrooming, ...
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Twenty-one this year SA Instrumentation and Control has been around for 21 years, and there has been great excitement at Technews as we have been looking back to where we came from and where we are heading. ...
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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. ...
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Early in August a colleague told me that one of our clients, Test and Measurement Instruments, had just been the victim of a sneaky fraud. So I called Joe Dos Santos to learn how these characters work. ...
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On a recent trip to 'rural' Italy, I stayed in a family-run hotel on the Amalfi Coast. I was pleasantly surprised that the 20-room hotel sported some of the best automation technologies available. To ...
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