SAFPA: SAFPA Golf Day Fourth Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
This year’s SAFPA Golf Day was held on 29 July at the Benoni Country Club. It was a highly successful occasion and everyone enjoyed getting out for a game and networking afterwards, after missing out ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President’s desk Third Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
With the second half of the year well on its way, it appears to be business as usual. The year started off on a relatively sad note after council learnt of the passing of both Garnet Cross and Chris ...
Read more...SAFPA technical meeting Third Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At SAFPA’s recent virtual technical meeting, Walter Heijboer from Hydac gave an in-depth presentation covering the use of filtration technologies to mitigate the ageing of oil and to protect equipment. ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President’s desk Second Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
With the middle of the year fast approaching it’s pretty much business as usual as Covid is taking a back seat for now, although increasing infection rates are of concern. SAFPA’s online technical talks ...
Read more...SAFPA: SAFPA will exhibit at career open day Second Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
SAFPA will be organising an exhibition at a career open day organised by the Academic Institute of Excellence (AIE) in Midrand. Originally planned for the 12 of May, it has now been postponed due to ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President’s desk First Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Welcome to the new year. Here’s hoping that the worst of Covid is over and we can start getting back to a normal life. Membership survey
SAFPA recently conducted a survey of our members which resulted ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President’s desk Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
I’m pretty sure the industry is relieved that the Covid debacle is just about over and that the national metal industry wage strike has eventually been concluded. These have severely affected the entire ...
Read more...SAFPA: Technical talk Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At a recent SAFPA technical webinar, Izak Lombaard, project engineer at Hydac Technology, gave an interesting talk on IIoT. He took participants through the various industrial revolutions and the four ...
Read more...SAFPA: Technical webinar Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At SAFPA’s recent virtual technical meeting, Paulo Gama, CEO of UniSource Software Services, gave another interesting talk on trends in the manufacturing industry. He described the role of enterprise ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President’s desk Third Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Welcome to all.
During these strange and trying times we currently live in, life has to carry on − but with a difference. SAFPA recently concluded its very first ‘on-line AGM’ and with the responses ...
Read more...SAFPA: Meet your SAFPA Council members Third Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Sadly we can’t meet in person, but here are the members of Michael Abbot’s SAFPA Council.
Read more...From the President’s desk Second Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA In the last quarter SAFPA has had a number of projects on the go. One has been the revamping and updating of the SAFPA website to give it a new look and feel.
SAFPA’s Pressure Vessel sub-committee ...
Read more...From the President’s desk First Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA For this issue, Motion Control interviewed SAFPA’s new president, Michael Abbot, to get to know him a bit more and find out about his plans for SAFPA.
Michael says that he was interested in mechanics ...
Read more...From the President’s desk Fourth Quarter 2020, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA I trust all the readers are safe and healthy.
It is with a heavy heart that I spread the word of two prominent members of the fluid power industry who have passed on over the past couple of months. ...
