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ROUND UP DRIVES, MOTORS + SWITCHGEARFLOW MEA UREMENT
Reinventing to create value
Yokogawa ’s Africa User’s Conference 2016 took place at the end
of October with resounding success expressed by both delegates
attending the event and exhibitors participating in the Automation
Exhibition. Over 160 people took part in the 3 day event from 19 to
21 October at The Fairway Hotel, Spa and golf resort, Kersi Aspar,
Vice President and Head of Global Sales Centre from Yokogawa
Electric Corporation inTokyo, Japan, reflected onYokogawa’s glori-
ous past, highlighting the many ‘World First’ technologies by the
company in order to contribute to society and industry in general.
These included the Optical Spectrum Analyser, the eight channel
Digital Oscilloscope, the Digital Power Meter, the Digital Transmit-
ter with Silicon Resonant SensorTechnology, theVortex Flowmeter
and the CENTUMDistributed Control System
with 99,99999% availability. He hinted at how
these technologies will be developed further
to offer our customers more advanced solu-
tions in future.
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Delegates at the event. From
left: Wenzile Dube, Eskom,
Reggy Mali, Eskom, Andrew
Bharath, Systems Sales Engineer
Yokogawa South Africa, Bongani
Magwaza, Eskom, Anthony
Tukker, Front Sales Engineer
Yokogawa South Africa, Erens
Phokane, Eskom.
27 December ‘16 Electricity+Control