SAFPA technical presentation Second Quarter 2023, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA)
At a recent SAFPA technical presentation, a young engineer from BMG, Christo Theron gave an interesting presentation entitled ‘Accumulator Pre-Charge Nitrogen Bottle Requirement’, covering his experience ...
SAFPA: From the President's desk First Quarter 2023, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA)
2023…. A little late to wish all compliments of the season with the first letter being released in February. I would however like to wish all a successful year and hope everybody returned to work after ...
SAFPA: SAFPA soccer day First Quarter 2023, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA) SAFPA recently hosted its first Soccer Day in three years, and it was a great success. The teams enjoyed themselves and a full day of clean fun was had. Ryco took home the 1st place prize, followed by ...
SAFPA: SAFPA at Electra Mining Fourth Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA) At the recent Electra Mining 2022 Exhibition, SAFPA was on display. Seen here is Manny Vieira manning the SAFPA stand.
SAFPA: SAFPA Golf Day Fourth Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: From the President’s desk Third Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA technical meeting Third Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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. ...
SAFPA: From the President’s desk Second Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: SAFPA will exhibit at career open day Second Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: From the President’s desk First Quarter 2022, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: From the President’s desk Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: Technical talk Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: Technical webinar Fourth Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: From the President’s desk Third Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
SAFPA: Meet your SAFPA Council members Third Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA) Sadly we can’t meet in person, but here are the members of Michael Abbot’s SAFPA Council.
SAFPA Technical Evening Second Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA)
At SAFPA’s most recent virtual technical meeting, Hannes Otto, Didactic training and consulting manager at Festo South Africa, gave an interesting talk on ‘Air Preparation for Automation – the Lungs ...
From the President’s desk Second Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
From the President’s desk First Quarter 2021, SA Fluid Power Association (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 ...
From the President’s desk Fourth Quarter 2020, SA Fluid Power Association (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. ...
SAFPA virtual meeting Fourth Quarter 2020, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA) SAFPA recently held its first virtual technical meeting, which was a great success. It was presented by Colin Hood who gave an overview of SAFPA’s new hydraulic assembly skills and hose safety course, ...
