SAIMC: Johannesburg branch June 2018, SAIMC At the last technology evening Eric Carter from turboTRAIN hosted and gave a presentation on ‘Avoiding pitfalls with variable speed drives’ on the premise that “If I understand it, I can work with it”.
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SAIMC: Cape Town branch June 2018, SAIMC On 22 February, the branch hosted its monthly technology evening where Gary Friend from Extech Safety Systems presented on the subject ‘Intrinsic Safety Applications’. For a resurging branch, the committee ...
SAIMC: Durban branch June 2018, SAIMC The May technology evening was held as usual at the Durban Country Club where Dhiren Naidoo, product manager of the level and pressure division at Endess+Hauser, presented on the topic of Heartbeat technology.
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SAIMC: From the President’s desk May 2018, SAIMC As South Africans, we are experiencing a lot of change at the moment. A big impact on us was the increase in VAT. It’s a change that affects everyone, but, as a resilient nation, we have to get it implemented ...
SAIMC: Durban branch May 2018, SAIMC The latest technology evening was held at the Durban Country Club on 4 April. Eric Hore, director of advanced solutions for Moore Process Controls gave a thought-provoking presentation titled ‘Energy ...
SAIMC: Secunda branch May 2018, SAIMC Site visit
The branch arranged its first site visit for 2018 to Sky Hill on 2 March. Sky Hill is situated between Secunda and Evander, and is an engineering company with expertise in the manufacturing ...
SAIMC: Johannesburg branch May 2018, SAIMC At the last technology evening, Robert Wright, managing director RJ Connect and his team presented on ‘Connecting the Unconnected IIoT/Industry 4.0’.
Robert, accompanied by Johan Huisaman and Andries ...
SAIMC: Tshwane branch May 2018, SAIMC Technology Evening At the March Technology Evening, Dhiren Naidoo from Endress+Hauser presented on ‘The benefits of Heartbeat Technology’, which include: • In-situ verification and documentation of ...
SAIMC: From the President’s desk April 2018, SAIMC Strategic alignment
On 9 March, the SAIMC held an executive strategy session where all stakeholders within the organisation were represented. The focus was to ensure that the correct strategic initiatives ...
SAIMC: Secunda branch April 2018, SAIMC SAIMC Secunda’s second technology evening for 2018 was hosted by Aveng ACS on the 6th of February. Christo Basson presented on ‘How to optimise your intelligent smart devices in your plant’.
Christo ...
SAIMC: Vaal branch April 2018, SAIMC The branch kicked off the year with a braai and Technical Evening presented by EOH Process Automation Solutions.
We were delighted to have outgoing SAIMC president Oratile Sematle at the meeting, inspiring ...
SAIMC: Johannesburg branch April 2018, SAIMC At the last technology evening, Frederik Langenhoven, solutions manager at Pepperl+Fuchs presented on ‘Keeping up with the demand for high-speed communication in modern process plants’.
Globally, the ...
SAIMC: Durban branch April 2018, SAIMC The March Technology Evening, held at the Durban Country Club, had the benefit of receiving a polished and informative presentation on the topic ‘Electrical explosion protection with focus on flameproof ...
SAIMC: Tshwane branch April 2018, SAIMC Feedback from AGM
The Tshwane branch AGM was held on 7th February when a new committee was voted in for the year. The members are as follows: chairman and technology: Petrus Klopper (Ai2SA); vice chairman ...
SAIMC: Zambia branch April 2018, SAIMC Northern Technical College in Ndola relaunched its SAIMC branch at the college during February by electing a new committee to steer the branch into the new year. The new committee replaces students ...
SAIMC: From the President’s desk March 2018, SAIMC Executive Planning Session At the upcoming Executive Planning Session, the SAIMC will discuss various issues that need to be addressed. Some of these include: • Driving education standards to address ...
SAIMC: Tshwane branch March 2018, SAIMC The plan for the year is to focus on technical evenings, site visits (Aerosud is a possibility but still to be confirmed), publishing technical papers, hosting training and speaking at events. Of course ...
SAIMC: Secunda branch March 2018, SAIMC AGM The branch AGM was held on 18 January at Honeywell HUB in Secunda. All the successes of 2017 were discussed and the new committee for 2018 was elected as follows:
• Johan Maritz (chairman, golf ...
SAIMC: Durban branch March 2018, SAIMC The branch AGM was held on 7 February at the usual Durban Country Club venue. Whilst AGMs never seem to attract the same attendance as technology evenings, we were happy with the turnout and, as usual, ...
SAIMC: From the President’s desk February 2018, SAIMC A quest for smooth transition
Someone once said: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant.” My ‘thank you’ moment has ...
