There was a record attendance at the June Durban SAIMC technology evening to hear Malcolm Heathfield of Adroit teach us how to take the strain out of information gathering and transform real-time data ...
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Process Expo 2011 As I am writing this letter we are preparing for Process Expo 2011. What a privilege to play a part in this huge event, it is the first time in a long while that we have participated ...
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The Johannesburg branch held its technology evening on 13 April. Malcolm Heathfield from Adroit gave a presentation titled ‘Intelligence from Data’ based on his insight as an automation information system ...
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The Durban branch’s May technology meeting was held as usual at the Westville Country Club on Wednesday 4 May. It was kindly sponsored by Phoenix Contact and the speaker for the evening was Tony Rayner, ...
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The branch has hosted two technology evenings since the last publication. In the past, and to a large extent still today, valve maintenance was performed on a time-based interval rather than in response ...
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Looking through the names of my predecessors is a humbling experience. There is no way that anyone can fill the shoes of these people, but one can take the baton and blaze new trails, in our time, and ...
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The Johannesburg branch held its latest technology evening on 9 March, when Tony Rayner from Phoenix Contact enlightened us to the general effects of lightning and switching transients as well as precautionary ...
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The Zambian branch held its AGM on 12 March at Rosval Restaurant in Chingola. The new executive to serve in 2011 is as follows:    * Chairman (Rodgers Kayombo). * Vice chairman (Widdy Chimba). * Secretary ...
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The Durban technology evening in May will be hosted by Phoenix Contact and will cover surge and lightning protection. Tony Rayner, who has been involved in the manufacture and sales of lightning/surge ...
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Our last technology evening was a presentation titled ‘Cost savings on steam through application training’ by Arjen Vink. This presentation shared valuable insights into savings that can be achieved by ...
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Looking back through the history of the SAIMC I recognise some big names in the industry:    * Professor WJ Taute, who taught me how to act as a professional engineer while I was his student at the PU for ...
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The year started well with a good turnout to a presentation by Ali Alberts from Incledon on valves for extreme applications. These Technology Evenings have a twofold benefit in that they are a source ...
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