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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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      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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sadly we can’t meet in person, but here are the members of Michael Abbot’s SAFPA Council.         
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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 ...
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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 ...
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