From the President’s desk 3rd Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA, News & events This might be the shortest president’s letter ever published as the topic I am touching on has been well covered in this issue.
SAFPA has made significant strides in the development of a nationally ...
Read more...Safety passports for the fluid power industry 3rd Quarter 2015, News & events At the most recent SAFPA technical meeting, Jamie Cliffe, global director of Safety Management Training Services group and Gavin Wilson, MD and licence holder for the South African Safety Passport Alliance ...
Read more...SAFPA AGM 2015 3rd Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA, News & events
At the SAFPA AGM held on 21 May, Brett Wallace, managing director of Festo South Africa, gave a fascinating presentation on Festo’s Bionic Learning Network. Inspired by nature, Festo has developed a ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 2nd Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
I have just returned from a trip to Europe, of which four days were spent at Hannover Messe, one of the largest industrial trade fairs in the world. I had heard and read about this show long before ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evenings 2nd Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At a recent technical meeting, SAFPA president Eugene Tondolo gave a presentation on the Sun Hydraulics manifold design program, Sun QuickDesign. This is a free, web-based, automated tool that creates ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 1st Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
Happy new year to all! I trust that all our readers had a happy festive season and are ready to tackle the challenges of 2015.
One of the most important attributes in life is a sound ethical ethos. A prerequisite ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 1st Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At SAFPA’s latest technical evening Klaus Marggraff, system sales manager at Hytec, gave a very interesting talk on his experiences on Hytec’s sluice gate and power intake upgrade project in Sudan. ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 1st Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At a recent SAFPA technical evening, Melanie Malema from Sparrow FET College gave a thought-provoking talk on the future of the SETAs and the Government’s proposed education process for apprenticeship ...
Read more...SAFPA cycle competition 1st Quarter 2015, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
SAFPA’s annual cycling team competition was held on Friday, 24 October, 2014. The total race distance was ±40 km, made up of 4 laps of ±10 km per lap. Seen here are the members of Honingcraft’s winning ...
Read more...From the President’s desk 4th Quarter 2014, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
This is the final president’s letter of 2014 and the final issue of Motion Control for the year – yes this year is all but over. We are left looking back at what we as the fluid power industry have ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 4th Quarter 2014, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
At the September technical evening Struan Orlik, a specialty chemical manufacturer from the metal treatment industry, gave an interesting talk on the latest industrial coatings for the hydraulic and ...
Read more...SAFPA technical evening 4th Quarter 2014, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA At a recent SAFPA technical evening, Albert Epprecht from Alba Hydraulics gave a presentation and demonstration of hydraulic quick couplers from Stucchi.
Read more...From the President’s desk 3rd Quarter 2014, SA Fluid Power Association (SAFPA), SAFPA
For this issue, Motion Control interviewed SAFPA’s new president, Eugene Tondolo to get to know him a bit more and find out about his plans for SAFPA.
Eugene has been with Axiom Hydraulics for the ...
