As we enter the final days of 2018, I would like to take a moment to reflect and thank those who contributed to an amazing year of achievement for the SAIMC. This year was about action, and it is my honour ...
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At the last technology evening, Yokogawa’s Bruce Bonte presented “An Introduction to ISA100.11a Wireless Technology”. Bruce has served the instrumentation industry for 30 years, having worked at Tongaat ...
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At the October technology evening, Reino Janse from Swagelok presented on ‘Regulator Issues’. The presentation, which is available to interested members, touched on topics such as main types of pressure ...
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The technology evening for August was presented by Lourens du Plessis, principal specialist for functional safety at Sasol. As defined in the IEC standards, there are four safety integrity levels (SIL ...
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At the last technology evening Dave Wibberley, managing director of Adroit Technologies, presented on ‘New perspective on smart factories in the context of Industry 4.0 and IOT’ with regards to sustainability, ...
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2018 was a busy and successful year for the branch culminating in us receiving the Platinum Award at the annual gala dinner. We will undoubtedly, as the SAIMC, do everything possible to increase our ...
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SAIMC’s prestigious annual dinner was once again held at the Montecasino Ballroom. In addition to senior council members, also present were VIP guests from the DTI and the National Technologies Implementation ...
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In an exciting new initiative, the SAIMC is engaging with the Intsimbi Future Production Technologies Initiative (IFPTI) in a drive aimed at changing the face of automation in South Africa. At a high ...
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Earlier this year, I enquired in one of my letters, that you ask yourself if you know where we are heading in the future with respect to the fields of Industry 4.0, automation, digitalisation and education ...
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Despite the arctic weather conditions, an impressive number of people came out to listen to Dr. Mathew Moodley (Senior lecturer at the School for Chemistry and Physics, Westville University of KZN) gave ...
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The September technology evening presentation was sponsored by SICK Automation and presented by Robert de Scande, the company’s product manager for presence detection, encoders and industrial instrumentation. ...
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Annual high-tea    On 17 August, the branch hosted its third annual high-tea for ladies in the instrumentation and control field. Due to the high level of interest the event had to be moved to a bigger ...
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