Obituary: I was saddened to hear the news of Gordon Duff’s death on 4 May of a heart attack. Our industry will long remember Gordon for his experience and the wealth of knowledge that he always shared ...
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May news At the last Johannesburg branch Technology Evening, Paulo de Sousa Gomes from Yokogawa presented the comparison between PLC/scada and DCS. In this detailed presentation the key features and ...
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The Cape Town branch held its AGM on 25 March where the new 2010/2011 committee members were elected. Selvan Murugan, who was branch vice chairman, has taken over the seat of chairman from Theo Schmidt ...
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Technology Evening April 2010 What is risk? How can it be quantified? What tolerance is put against process safety? Do engineers have specific professional responsibilities towards safety? How should ...
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   Forthcoming attractions: Owen Taverna-Smith from Exida will be presenting at the July SAIMC Durban branch technology evening. The topic will be Cyber Security geared at the process industries: Taverna-Smith ...
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The SAIMC Council held its AGM at the Rivonia Country Club on 10 March. All the 2009 councillors indicated their willingness to serve on the council for a further year thus making themselves available ...
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The Cape Town branch of the SAIMC held its AGM on 25 March where the 2010/2011 committee was elected. Selvan Murugan has taken over the seat of chairman from Theo Schmidt who is standing down after his ...
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Forthcoming attractions Kevin Swamy from Sappi will be presenting at the June SAIMC Durban branch technology evening on 2 June. The topic is Fuzzy logic boiler control. Kevin has a BTech in Electrical ...
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The Johannesburg SAIMC branch, at its March committee meeting mapped out the calendar for the year as well as assigned the following portfolios to committee members:    * Debbie Scott – chair.    * Paulo ...
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The Vaal branch kicked off the 2010 year with a well attended braai that brought the members together. The function was attended by SAIMC president Johan van Jaarsveldt and Johannesburg branch’s Paulo ...
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'Website is under Construction' this is what you have been seeing for the past five months. Well, at last we now have a webpage running at http://www.saimc.net thanks to a lot of work done by Johan Maartens. ...
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The year started with a bang and before we realised it is April already. The Secunda branch had its AGM early in January when an exciting committee was selected. Peter Zietsman retained the chair and ...
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