From the President’s desk 3rd Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA For this issue, Motion Control interviewed SAFPA’s new president, Dustin Pereira, to get to know him a bit more and find out about his plans for SAFPA.
Dustin graduated with honours from RAU (now UJ) ...
Read more...SAFPA Golf Day 3rd Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At SAFPA’s annual Golf Day, held on Wednesday 16 May, there was a fantastic turnout of 25 teams. In spite of a light drizzle, the players were in good spirits and the day was a huge success. The winning ...
Read more...SAFPA AGM 2018 3rd Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At the recent SAFPA AGM, the keynote speaker was Bosch Rexroth regional president for Africa, Lucas Wintjes. He gave a fascinating account of the design and working of the hydraulic equipment on the world’s ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 2nd Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA The SAFPA committee once again experienced a busy period during the last quarter, particularly in the field of education. Economy
Continuing with the theme of the economy reported on during the first ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 2nd Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At a recent SAFPA technical evening Walter Zimmerman gave an interesting and detailed presentation on his recently published book, Introduction to Hydraulics.
This training manual is suited to the ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 1st Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA The SAFPA committee experienced a busy period during the last quarter, particularly in the field of education. This area is subject to large amounts of red tape and we find that we spend a considerable ...
Read more...SAFPA soccer tournament 1st Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA The recent SAFPA soccer tournament was a great success. There were 22 teams, all showing great enthusiasm and sportsmanship.
Well done to the winners, Parker Hannifin. The runners up were Hansa-Flex ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 1st Quarter 2018, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At October’s technical meeting, Hytec’s group training manager, Allen Van Gent spoke about the latest developments regarding the past, present and future of the National Qualification: Mechanical Engineering; ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 4th Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Over the past three months the Council has once again spent many hours in discussions on education and the new hose safety training material. These two points are key focus areas for SAFPA. Education...
Read more...SAFPA cycle race 4th Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA SAFPA’s annual cycle race was held on Friday 15th September at Avianto and was a huge success. Hydra-Spes was the winning team, with SMC Pneumatics second and Turnkey Hydraulics third. Congratulations ...
Read more...SAFPA: From the President's desk 3rd Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA Education and training We continue with the same theme as in the second quarter edition of Motion Control, where a large proportion of SAFPA’s efforts was focused on the fields of education and training. ...
Read more...SAFPA AGM 2017 3rd Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At the SAFPA AGM held on 18th May, Grant Stander from Gauteng Environmental Management gave a talk on the disposal of hydraulic hoses. Manny Vieira (SMC Pneumatics) also gave an update on SAFPA’s progress ...
Read more...From the President’s desk: SAFPA reaches out with new qualifications 2nd Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), Editor's Choice, SAFPA SAFPA’s training initiative to develop properly accredited fluid power qualifications for the industry has made significant progress. Motion Control’s editor recently paid a visit to the training service ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evenings 2nd Quarter 2017, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At a recent technical meeting, Dr Terry Stidworthy from the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) gave a presentation on the role of ECSA, the benefits of becoming a member, and the registration ...
