Electricity + Control May 2017

SOCIAL ENGINEERS

ABB’s Longmeadow Regional DrivesWorkshop ABB recently launched the Regional Drives Workshop at its facility in Longmeadow, Modderfontein, South Africa. As a regional workshop it provides a repair service to customers throughout sub-Saharan Africa. (See article on page 22). Enquiries: Email nols.muller@za.abb.com

ABB Robotics and Motion Division, Drives and Controls: Nols Muller (Drives Service Manager), Mark Sheldon (Local Business Unit Manager), Harald Mossbacher (Local Division Sales Manager).

ABB Longmeadow, Fritz Grobler, Victor Leal and, from ABB Germany, Zafer Akyildiz.

Tomi Juutilainen (ABB, United Arab Emirates) and Kimmo Hirvonen (ABB Finland).

ABB Robotics and Motion Division, Drives and Controls: Clodette Prinsloo, Linda Joseph, Deon du Plessis and Lynette Viljoen.

Virtual Reality experience at PEWA Cummins Southern Africa demonstrated its recently launched ‘Virtual Reality Equipment’ at Power & Electricity World Africa (PEWA) on Tuesday 28 March 2017. By wearing goggles and a headset, one is taken on a ‘Virtual Reality’ tour of an industrial plant and introduced to the company’s products, capabilities and solutions. (See article on page 38).

Sporting the ‘Virtual Reality Equipment’ is Cummins Southern Africa Director, Power Generation Southern Africa, Kenny Gaynor, with Sales Engineer, Celeste Cadilhe.

Also at the Cummins stand were Siyandi Naiker and Nakul Virat.

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