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IPC and Applications Seminar
Renewables… just not enough!
Beckhoff Automation recently held an IPC and Applications Semi-
nar for their customers in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It was
presented by Roland van Mark and Rob Rawlyk from Beckhoff
Automation (Germany). Van Mark gave an overview of Beckhoff’s
comprehensive range of Industrial PCs, highlighting many innova-
tions such as the latest many-core Industrial server PC containing
two 18-core Intel Xeon processors (totalling 36 cores) with 2 TB
of RAM. Rawlyk discussed Beckhoff’s interesting and challeng-
ing applications which Beckhoff has developed over the years.
Enquiries: Michelle Murphy. Email
On Friday, 30 October 2015, American TomBlees (Presi-
dent of the Science Council for Global Initiatives), was
the main speaker at a Nuclear Industry Association of
South Africa (NIASA) Round Table discussion held at the
Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead, Johannes-
burg. He believes that in order tomitigate against climate
change and make environmental preservation a priority
globally, there must be a move to eliminate the burning
of fossil fuels. “The full range of electricity-generation
sources − including nuclear power − must be deployed
to replace coal and realistically meet the base-load
power needs of an increasingly energy hungry world.”
Enquiries: Email
SOCIAL ENGINEERS
Brendan van der Westhuizen (Student Trainee), Rodney Grobler (Sales
Technician), Adam Carless (Technical Service Engineer), Roland van
Mark (Product- & Marketing Management Industrial PC).
Aimee Schumacher (Admin Assistant), Roland van Mark
(Product- & Marketing Management Industrial PC),
Michelle Murphy (Internal Sales Administrator).
Rob Rawlyk (Senior Application Engineer), Kenneth McPherson
(Managing Director), Roland van Mark (Product & Marketing
Management Industrial PC).
Round Table on Nuclear Energy in South Africa panel: Chris Yelland, (Panel facilitator); Des
Muller (Nuclear Construction Services - Group 5); Jason VanderPoel (Allen & Overy); Knox
Msebenzi (NIASA); Tom Blees (Science Council for Global Initiatives); Anthonie Cilliers
(School of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering - North West University).
39 December ‘15 Electricity+Control