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Green warehousing logistics
2nd Quarter 2014, SEW-EURODRIVE
The theme for this year’s PneuDrive Challenge is green warehousing logistics. SEW-Eurodrive marketing and communications manager, Rene Rose explains: “Students have to identify and analyse specific ...

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Decades of Engineering Excellence
2nd Quarter 2014
Published by Chris van Rensburg Publications, Decades of Engineering Excellence is a new coffee-table book issued by The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) to commemorate the country’s engineering ...

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Appointments
2nd Quarter 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa
   Schneider Electric SA has appointed Bernhard Klöss as industry business director in southern Africa.    Schneider Electric has appointed Ntombi Mhangwani as marketing and communications director. ...

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Festo Didactic training: May to July 2014
2nd Quarter 2014, Festo
Pneumatics (1) Basic PN111:    Johannesburg: 4-16 May, 4-6 June, 2-4 July    Cape Town: 11-13 June    Durban: 18-20 June    Port Elizabeth: 28-30 May       Pneumatics (2) Maintenance PN121:    Johannesburg: 28-30 ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Mobile devices overtake PCs and the industrial Internet
2nd Quarter 2014
Jim Pinto is a ­technology futurist, international speaker and automation industry commentator. You can e-mail him at [email protected]. Or review his ­prognostications and predictions on his website www.jimpinto.com

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Motion control revenues fall short in 2013
2nd Quarter 2014
Global sales of motion control products recovered in 2013 to reach $12,2 billion, but growth was far too weak to overcome the 2012 market declines, leaving market revenues well below the peak level reached ...

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Schneider steps into the future
2nd Quarter 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa
21st century megatrends are driving the world’s energy consumption and growth and Schneider Electric is at the wheel.

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A sea change
2nd Quarter 2014, Technews Publishing
Machines are talking I am starting to hear more and more about the fourth industrial revolution and it looks like a sea change is underway. In Europe it is known as Industry 4.0, while GE coined the ...

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DCD Rolling Stock’s massive recapitalisation
1st Quarter 2014
DCD Rolling Stock recently launched phase 1 of its R240 million recapitalisation programme. Public Enterprises Minister, Malusi Gigaba delivered the keynote address. The programme will consolidate its ...

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Siemens opens Mandela School of Science & Technology
1st Quarter 2014
The Mandela School of Science & Technology, which was financed and built by Siemens, has now opened in Nelson Mandela’s birthplace of Mvezo. As the region’s first high school, the facility will provide ...

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CS-iTEC partners with Artic Driers
1st Quarter 2014, Artic Driers International
The CS-iTEC company, part of CS Instruments Asia, has appointed Artic Driers International as the sole southern African agent for its broad range of products covering compressed air measurement and mobile ...

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Festo at Jet World Masters
1st Quarter 2014, Festo
The Jet World Masters 2013 competition was recently held in Switzerland and Festo provided assistance to the South African team. The competition brings together the world’s best scale jet aircraft model ...

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CPUT wins greener mining design challenge
1st Quarter 2014, SEW-EURODRIVE
An elegant design from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) was the best entry in the 2013 PneuDrive Challenge. This year, students were asked to explore a Greener Mining theme, and CPUT’s ...

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A robotics programme to inspire young people
1st Quarter 2014
FIRST (for inspiration and recognition of science and technology) is an international organisation that aims to instill an appreciation of science and technology in young people; and the FIRST Lego League ...

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Genflex distributes from Pinetown
1st Quarter 2014
Singlehurst Hydraulics, part of the Genflex group of companies, is now the Pinetown distribution centre for Genflex products. All internal and sales staff are undergoing advanced training on the Genflex ...

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Hydromobile training
1st Quarter 2014, Hydromobile S.A.
Hydromobile’s popular hydraulics training course gives students a good general understanding of hydraulic system design and valve applications. The following topics are covered:    Day One: Explanation ...

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Hydromobile’s new workshop
1st Quarter 2014, Hydromobile S.A.
Hydromobile has recently invested in a major overhaul of its workshop at its premises in Spartan, Johannesburg. This will allow the company to build on its ability to design, manufacture and install a ...

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ECSA has big plans
1st Quarter 2014
The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) has big plans and recently spoke to Technews about some of its initiatives. ECSA is the only body in South Africa that is authorised to register engineering ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Futurist predictions and top technology devices
1st Quarter 2014
Predictions for five to 10 years Driven by the new paradigm that machines learn, reason and engage in more naturalised and personalised ways, several innovations are starting to emerge. These are enabled ...

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