From the president's desk May 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
Cape Town branch May 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
Durban branch May 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
Johannesburg branch May 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
Vaal branch May 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
From the president's desk April 2010, SAIMC '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. ...
Secunda branch April 2010, SAIMC 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 ...
Durban branch April 2010, SAIMC At our last Technology Evening Yashren Reddi gave a well structured and interesting presentation on the basic principles of the highly developed control system he used for his mini-Sedgeway remote controlled ...
Johannesburg branch April 2010, SAIMC The Johannesburg Branch of the SAIMC held its AGM on 10 March. The 2010 committee was elected – the majority of the 2009 stalwarts committed to devoting another year to furthering the aims of the industry, ...
Durban branch March 2010, SAIMC The Durban branch of the SAIMC held its AGM at the Durban Country Club on Wednesday 3 February. It was a well attended function and after the formalities were over members enjoyed an appetising dinner, ...
From the president's desk February 2010, SAIMC From 18 to 20 December, Vivian MacFadyen and I made a flying visit to our Zambian branches. The purpose was to encourage our branches to maintain the drive to grow the Society within the Zambian region, ...
Johannesburg branch February 2010, SAIMC, WEINERT Special Cables 2009 Round-upTechnology evenings
Technology evenings kicked off in March with Nirmal Naratam of PAS describing the best way to configure alarms so as to eliminate alarm ‘flooding’, and confusing the ...
Durban branch February 2010, SAIMC The Richards Bay SAIMC technology evening will be held on 24 February. Bruce Barratt and Andre Tesselaar from Dimension Data will be discussing the design commissioning and installation of the Ethernet ...
From the president's desk January 2010, SAIMC Firstly, I would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year – may 2010 be your best year yet.
From an SAIMC perspective the New Year brings with it a new set of challenges. So, if you have ...
Secunda branch January 2010, SAIMC The Secunda branch activities for 2009 ended with a very well organised year-end function which, from feedback received, was enjoyed by everyone who attended.
For our last site visit of 2009, NIC Instruments ...
Durban branch January 2010, SAIMC The November technology evening for the Durban branch of the SAIMC was a most interesting one on process information system Historians. These have evolved significantly from the early days when their ...
From the president's desk December 2009, SAIMC We often hear of the November/December period being referred to as the ‘Silly Season’.
Well, with all the year-end functions and the rush to complete everything in time, I have to agree with this description. ...
Durban branch December 2009, SAIMC Chairman’s message
2009 has been another very successful year for the SAIMC Durban branch. We have managed to grow our membership even in this recessionary environment, giving credence to those famous ...
Secunda branch December 2009, SAIMC It is unbelievable that a year can pass so fast. 2009 has been a year filled with challenges in many fields and I am sure everyone will agree that the economic challenge was the greatest of all. It took ...
From the president's desk November 2009, SAIMC The Annual Banquet to be held on 5 November is fully sold out with 220 seats. This year’s sponsoring companies in alphabetical order were: * Beckhoff
* Burkert Contromatic
* EE Publishers
* Endress+Hauser
* ...