Our innovations committee headed by Johan Maartens is constantly tabling new ideas and proposals to help us work more efficiently, thus adding benefits to both our members and patrons. The 2009 Council ...
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At the SAIMC Durban technology evening held on 5 August the enthusiastic turnout was treated to an interesting presentation by Cindy Montague of Schneider Electric on Schneider’s involvement in the Durban, ...
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We thank our Patrons. The SAIMC is the institute of choice for all persons and organisations working in the automation, measurement and control industry. Companies associated with this business; either ...
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Attendance has been on the up this year, largely thanks to some very interesting presenters – Gary Friend of Extech (on Foundation Fieldbus implementation); Conrad Mueller of Beckhoff on EtherCat; and ...
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The Technology Evening held in June was very successful. We all thought that the attendance would be down from previous months due to the very cold weather we have been experiencing on the Highveld. Much ...
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At the Durban branch Technology Evening in August Dave Wibberley gave an entertaining presentation on alarm management coupled with a fascinating video on the value of data by Hans Rosling. Dave used ...
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Every time I sign into my e-mail there are new membership applications awaiting approval. We have had a flood of new applications over the past two months. Together with chasing up 2009 fees and processing ...
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May 2009 has once again been a very busy month for the Secunda branch. It started with the technology evening hosted by VEGA Instruments. Clint Viviers gave a very interesting presentation on nuclear ...
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What you missed in May Gary Friend of Extech Safety Systems gave a fascinating presentation on the conceptual differences between fieldbus (especially Foundation Fieldbus) and 4–20 mA. He pointed out ...
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Frikkie van Zyl and Piet van Huyssteen gave an enlightening presentation at the last Durban branch technology evening. Both were members of the team from North West University who won the 2008 Siemens ...
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Fifty-first year of the SAIMC and still the ‘Institute of Choice’: this is truly an achievement and our membership in 2009 has been growing at a phenomenal rate. Membership applications completed on our ...
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At the Durban branch May meeting we were delighted to host Johannes de Vries (M-TECH Electrical Engineering) Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). De Vries is excited about all things robotic and addressed ...
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