Taking over the reins July 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News June has been an incredible month for me! With a background in mechanical engineering, publishing is a whole new world for me and I basically had to hit the ground running. However, I am confident that ...
Read more...New SAI&C editor June 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News As we have indicated over recent issues of SA Instrumentation & Control, this is the last issue of the magazine that editor, John Gibbs, will be directly involved in. Some of the material used in future ...
Read more...Bumper May 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Welcome to a bumper issue of SA Instrumentation & Control! This larger-than-normal issue of SAI&C coincides with the launch of the new look instrumentation.co.za website. The new site has been optimised, ...
Read more...Passion drives business April 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Moving on
Something of a sudden move to many - I will be leaving Technews Publishing shortly (officially at the end of May) - so my last contributions to SA Instrumentation and Control will likely be ...
Read more...Calibration matters March 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News After reading the 'UniTemp now open for calibrations' news item in our last issue (February 2006), Steve Sidney, manager of the National Laboratory Association raised some concerns in a letter to the ...
Read more...A warped perspective of the future January 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In trying to forecast what trends and breakthroughs we are likely to see in 2006, I, as a confirmed 'geek and gadget-freak', have come to the conclusion that previous inventors have set exceptionally ...
Read more...Steady as she goes December 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Over the last six years we saw the firming of the rand and the lowering of interest rates and our economy has now entered its seventh year of expansion. Residential property developments have been mushrooming, ...
Read more...Johannesburg branch December 2005, SAIMC Well, the year 2005 is all but kaput. The council annual banquet was a great success with many participants saying that it was the best ever. By the time you read this, the Johannesburg summer golf day ...
Read more...Birthdays, digital paper and a new book November 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Twenty-one this year
SA Instrumentation and Control has been around for 21 years, and there has been great excitement at Technews as we have been looking back to where we came from and where we are heading. ...
Read more...SA I&C turns 21 years old October 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News SA Instrumentation & Control (instrumentation.co.za) turns 21 years old this month. To date, SA I&C has produced approximately 252 issues (20 160 pages) that have been circulated to more than 5500 readers. ...
Read more...Suppliers to watch out for fraudsters September 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Early in August a colleague told me that one of our clients, Test and Measurement Instruments, had just been the victim of a sneaky fraud. So I called Joe Dos Santos to learn how these characters work. ...
Read more...Competitive advantage through technology August 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News On a recent trip to 'rural' Italy, I stayed in a family-run hotel on the Amalfi Coast. I was pleasantly surprised that the 20-room hotel sported some of the best automation technologies available. To ...
Read more...Keeping the ball rolling July 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Unless you are reading a passed-along copy of SA Instrumentation & Control, some time in the near future you should be receiving a 'Circulation Reclassification Form'. It is important that this is filled ...
Read more...Technews publications leading the way forward June 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News It seems that every time I write one of these columns, I am able to report on some new development of one of the magazines in the Technews stable. Last time it was regarding the launch of SA Instrumentation ...
