The branch held its May Technology Evening at the Eskom Marketing Centre in Edgemead. The topic was ‘Lightning and Surge Protection’ presented by Tony Rayner, product manager at Trabtech Surge & Lightning ...
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   At the June Technology Evening, the Johannesburg branch hosted Paulo de Sousa Gomes from Schneider Electric who enlightened us on ‘The Shale Gas Revolution’.    Shale gas is natural gas that is found ...
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   The May Durban branch Technology Evening broke with the traditional timing of the first Wednesday of the month in order to avoid a clash with the election. On the evening of the 14 May, Dean Trattles ...
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Your SAIMC servant-leaders have been as busy as usual this month! With the AGMs behind us, we are busy assimilating the new team members into the various sub-committees I mentioned in my January letter. ...
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In March the Vaal branch was fortunate to have its Technology Evening sponsored by WIKA Instruments when general manager, Ralf Hesse, gave a presentation on multipoint thermocouple systems and furnace ...
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The Durban branch’s April Technology Evening was kindly sponsored by Yokogawa and the presenter was Kallie Bodenstein, the systems facilitator at Yokogawa South Africa. Kallie studied Electrical Engineering ...
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   At its March Technology Evening, the Johannesburg branch hosted Mike O’Neill from Expo Technologies, England, who presented on ‘Ex P type protection for the process industry’.    Ex p can protect many ...
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We are officially in the middle of autumn and the pre-winter chill will soon arrive here in Gauteng! I am pleased to announce however, that things are as hot as ever at the SAIMC. Council decided at ...
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The SAIMC (represented by Solly Mabitsela of Sasol) was among several AF organisations represented at a meeting held at ISA headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The objective was to bring together ...
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The Johannesburg SAIMC branch, held its first meeting on 12 February at the Rivonia country club to map out the calendar for the year as well as enjoy a fun filled social evening; Quizmaster Eric Carter ...
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   The March Technology Evening was held at the Durban Country Club and this month’s speaker was Mervyn Gans of Engen Refinery. His topic was: Functional Safety Systems for Instrumentation and Safety ...
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   AGM 2014 The annual AGM was held during February at Umhambi Lodge. The treasurer’s report was presented by Wilson Maminimini. Wilson explained that most of the income was generated from the Technology ...
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