Electricity + Control December 2016

DRIVES, MOTORS + SWITCHGEAR FLOW MEA UREMENT

ROUND UP

Reinventing to create value

Yokogawa ’s Africa User’s Conference 2016 took place at the end of October with resounding success expressed by both delegates attending the event and exhibitors participating in the Automation Exhibition. Over 160 people took part in the 3 day event from 19 to 21 October at The Fairway Hotel, Spa and golf resort, Kersi Aspar, Vice President and Head of Global Sales Centre from Yokogawa

Electric Corporation inTokyo, Japan, reflected onYokogawa’s glori- ous past, highlighting the many ‘World First’ technologies by the company in order to contribute to society and industry in general. These included the Optical Spectrum Analyser, the eight channel Digital Oscilloscope, the Digital Power Meter, the Digital Transmit- ter with Silicon Resonant SensorTechnology, theVortex Flowmeter

and the CENTUMDistributed Control System with 99,99999% availability. He hinted at how these technologies will be developed further to offer our customers more advanced solu- tions in future. Enquiries: Email Christie.Cronje@za.yokogawa.com

Delegates at the event. From left: Wenzile Dube, Eskom, Reggy Mali, Eskom, Andrew Bharath, Systems Sales Engineer Yokogawa South Africa, Bongani Magwaza, Eskom, Anthony Tukker, Front Sales Engineer Yokogawa South Africa, Erens Phokane, Eskom.

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