Electricity + Control December 2015

SOCIAL ENGINEERS

IPC and Applications Seminar

Beckhoff Automation recently held an IPC and Applications Semi- nar for their customers in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It was presented by Roland van Mark and Rob Rawlyk from Beckhoff Automation (Germany). Van Mark gave an overview of Beckhoff’s comprehensive range of Industrial PCs, highlighting many innova- tions such as the latest many-core Industrial server PC containing two 18-core Intel Xeon processors (totalling 36 cores) with 2 TB of RAM. Rawlyk discussed Beckhoff’s interesting and challeng- ing applications which Beckhoff has developed over the years.

Rob Rawlyk (Senior Application Engineer), Kenneth McPherson (Managing Director), Roland van Mark (Product & Marketing Management Industrial PC).

Enquiries: Michelle Murphy. Email michellem@beckhoff.co.za

Brendan van der Westhuizen (Student Trainee), Rodney Grobler (Sales Technician), Adam Carless (Technical Service Engineer), Roland van Mark (Product- & Marketing Management Industrial PC).

Aimee Schumacher (Admin Assistant), Roland van Mark (Product- & Marketing Management Industrial PC), Michelle Murphy (Internal Sales Administrator).

Renewables… just not enough!

On Friday, 30 October 2015, American TomBlees (Presi- dent of the Science Council for Global Initiatives), was the main speaker at a Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (NIASA) Round Table discussion held at the Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead, Johannes- burg. He believes that in order tomitigate against climate change and make environmental preservation a priority globally, there must be a move to eliminate the burning of fossil fuels. “The full range of electricity-generation sources − including nuclear power − must be deployed to replace coal and realistically meet the base-load power needs of an increasingly energy hungry world.”

Round Table on Nuclear Energy in South Africa panel: Chris Yelland, (Panel facilitator); Des Muller (Nuclear Construction Services - Group 5); Jason VanderPoel (Allen & Overy); Knox Msebenzi (NIASA); Tom Blees (Science Council for Global Initiatives); Anthonie Cilliers (School of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering - North West University).

Enquiries: Email niasaservices@vdw.co.za

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