Axiom celebrates 15 years in the Sun Second Quarter 2007, Axiom Hydraulics During January, Allen Carlson, president of Sun Hydraulics, visited its authorised South African distributor, Axiom Hydraulics to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their business relationship.
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IDC Technologies workshops June-August Second Quarter 2007 Power Cables: Operation, Maintenance, Location and Fault Detection: Johannesburg: 4-5 June. Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Systems and Batteries
Johannesburg: ...
Hydrocraft offers a new approach to hydraulic and pneumatic skills training Second Quarter 2007 A new fluid power training and consultancy company, Hydrocraft Technologies, has been formed to offer the guidance, analysis, assessment and training associated with the recently completed National Certificate ...
The Jim Pinto column: The robots are coming! Second Quarter 2007 When it comes to robots, reality still lags science fiction. But the confluence of several advanced technologies is bringing the age of robotics ever nearer. Today's robots are smaller, cheaper, more ...
Are automation and manual labour mutually exclusive? Second Quarter 2007, Festo South Africa Business regularly bemoans the high costs associated with labour (especially inefficient labour). One of the weapons in the corporate armoury of cost-cutting is often automation, which directly results ...
SKF turns 100 Second Quarter 2007, SKF South Africa Sven Wingquist, who founded SKF in 1907, invented the revolutionary self-aligning ball bearing through hard, round-the-clock research, to resolve problems that plagued the textile factory where he worked.
The ...
CMG sells largest motor Second Quarter 2007 CMG South Africa, part of Australian multinational CMG, a leading manufacturer and supplier of electric motors, drives and transmissions, recently delivered a 1000 kW, 690 V PPA motor to Exxaro (Ticor) ...
Hydromobile boosts technical department Second Quarter 2007, Hydromobile S.A. ‘Making it easier for the customer’ was Hydromobile’s founding philosophy and this attitude remains as the basis of all that the company does today.
In 1991 Hydromobile was formed as an alternative ...
Convergence of technologies Second Quarter 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) Talking to some people in the business sectors addressed by Motion Control and to some engineers there seems to be a school of thought that believes that there is nothing new to read or write about. Well, ...
Appointments First Quarter 2007 Nina Oppel has joined SEW Eurodrive as a projects co-ordinator. Jacques Swart has been appointed as sales engineer in Richards Bay for SEW Eurodrive.
Imtiaz Fajandar has been appointed as projects ...
Courses from Festo Didactic First Quarter 2007, Festo April 2007 Basic pneumatics
This MERSETA accredited course by Festo Didactic, combining theory with practice, includes the objectives of low cost automation, pneumatic symbols and other general pneumatic ...
Genflex rated BEE-compliant First Quarter 2007 Genflex Hydraulics of Gauteng, one of South Africa's leading suppliers of hydraulic hose and fittings, was awarded a certificate of compliance in terms of the broad based black economic empowerment scorecard ...
North West walks away with gold at 2006 Cyber Junkyard Competition First Quarter 2007, Festo South Africa The University of North West, based in Potchefstroom, triumphed in the 2006 Siemens South Africa Cyber Junkyard Competition, presented in cooperation with pneumatic and mechatronics specialist Festo. ...
PECS gets creative at Propak Africa 2007 Exhibition First Quarter 2007 Pneumatic Electric Control Systems (PECS) will be showcasing its products at this year's Propak Africa Exhibition, as it believes it must keep its customers up to date with its latest developments in ...
Power and automation orders reach new record of R3,6 billion First Quarter 2007 ABB South Africa, a leading global power and automation technology group, has achieved record power and automation orders of R3,6 billion in 2006, 30% higher than the previous year. Orders were spurred ...
A new partnership to lead the way in HMIs First Quarter 2007, CBI-electric: low voltage CBI-electric: low voltage and Beijer Electronics of Sweden have announced the signing of an exclusive partnership agreement under which CBI-electric: low voltage will sell and distribute Beijer's full ...
SAIMechE Mechanical Power Transmission seminar First Quarter 2007 Date: Wednesday 14 March 2007. Time: 08h25 to 15h30 (registration from 07h45). Venue: Blue Waters Hotel, 175 Snell Parade, Durban.
Closing date for bookings: 10h00 on Monday 12 March 2007.
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SUSTAIN 2007 First Quarter 2007 Sustainable development in practice
"Anyone who thinks the science is not there to support the notion that we are altering our planet's climate - to our own detriment - clearly has not read the mainstream ...
Bartec launches local Flameproof Motors Division First Quarter 2007 Bartec's renowned range of standard and special design flameproof motors is now available in South Africa. Bartec has been manufacturing flameproof and mining motors for almost 50 years and has gained ...
Beltcon 14 International Materials Handling Conference First Quarter 2007 Beltcon, one of the leading conveyor events in Africa, takes place on 1 and 2 August 2007 at the Birchwood Executive Hotel and Conference Centre, East Rand, near the O.R. Tambo International Airport of ...