December 2007: Feature Articles

• Alarm management: a Six Sigma approach
• Increasing test system ROI with NI TestStand 4.0
• Overload protection: circuit breaker technologies
• Scada, standard and savings: it is not on top - it is inside!
• Taming the robot: breaking down the barriers between man and machine

November 2007: Feature Articles

• Plant intelligence for scada and MES
• Wonderware's recipe for happiness

October 2007: Feature Articles

• Siemens TIA User Forum 2007 opens with 560 delegates
• Battery powered utility water meters
• First systems lease? SSE Cape implements BMO deal
• Innovative busbar system: saving time and money
• Integrated safety: a strategic approach to implementing safety networks
• Integrating control and safety: where to draw the line
• Myths and truths: compressor efficiency and variable speed drives
• Namakwa Sands shuns spreadsheets
• Water supply safety: a national priority

September 2007: Feature Articles

• Universal sensors: worlds apart
• Alarm management: a critical part of control engineering
• Industrial switches: fact and fiction
• InTouch v10: form follows function
• Proficy Process Systems: GE Fanuc's new integrated offering
• Resist cyber attack: securing integrated scada systems

August 2007: Feature Articles

• Level control in cement production
• A technical insight into some factors impacting radar level measurement
• Arnott's Biscuits proves a cakewalk for Citect
• Coriolis meter used for Brix measurement
• Milk manufacturer reaps robotic rewards
• Control valve combines the best of linear and rotary technologies
• Solutions for effluent plants and environmental monitoring
• SEW drives productivity at Pieman's Pantry
• Electric and pneumatic drives: friends or foes?
• Using machine vision to sense falling objects

July 2007: Feature Articles

• DCS and scada alarm management survey
• Endress+Hauser announces international appointment
• Technews to host inaugural Technews Golf Challenge
• Custody transfer of oil products with Coriolis mass flowmeters
• ArchestrA helps Lonmin maintain standards
• Creating a high throughput vision-based system for pencil sorting
• Data acquisition for breakout prediction systems
• Improve DP-based flow measurement with a multivariable pressure transmitter
• PLC programming standards
• Portal opens doors for mine management
• SOA whats and wherefores
• The evolution of substation communications
• Usability: the key to manufacturing ERP success

June 2007: Feature Articles

• Mobile energy cells powered Adroitly
• Adroit secures RAF radar power
• Painting by numbers at Toyota SA
• Scada review 2007: Adroit
• Scada review 2007: Citect
• Scada review 2007: Rockwell
• Scada review 2007: Siemens
• Scada review 2007: Wonderware

May 2007: Feature Articles

• PLC programming standards survey
• Adroit launches Adroit P³: scada/PC/PLC in a panel
• Archestrating 'One Arla' global strategy
• Citect scada casts an eye over Scaw
• PACs boost rolling mill PLCs
• Quick-acting couplings
• Sawmill optimisation can save millions
• Self-diagnostics in flowmetering
• Using corrosion as a process variable

April 2007: Feature Articles

• Adroit controls innovative cold coil process
• Adroit monitors Amatola Water's bulk purified water reticulation
• DCS or PAC? You decide
• FISCO simplifies application of explosion protection standards
• Solutions for remote monitoring and control over large areas

March 2007: Feature Articles

• Factelligence increases production and reduces cycle time
• Improved efficiency with CC-Link - the Asian Open Standard
• Making Ethernet bulletproof
• Modular or block I/O systems?
• New paperless graphic recorder is easy to operate
• Renewable energy - Part 2
• Resinkem adopts ArchestrA to improve batch control and modernise plant
• Synchronous measuring with standard Ethernet
• Would you put a mission-critical network on wireless?
• Yokogawa launches VigilantPlant Asset Excellence Initiative

February 2007: Feature Articles

• Meta provides realtime benchmarking information
• New technology pairing offers leaner manufacturing prospects
• Renewable energy - Part 1
• Rotary control valves for olefin plants
• Wonderware's new offerings for production and performance management

January 2007: Feature Articles

• Beckhoff technology used in production of BMW 3 series axles
• Endless implications for success with Proficy HMI/SCADA
• Kumba Grootgeluk mine uses Wonderware's ArchestrA to set automation standards
• Rockwell Automation distributed control solution improves pressure variance
• The digital influence on analog technologies

January 2008: Feature Articles

• Autonomous vehicle research: the winner of a $2m challenge
• Expert system applied to milling circuit
• Intelligent platforms: delivering operational efficiencies value and return-on-investment in the mining, minerals and metals industries
• Strip temperature control: IR thermometry for continuous annealing
• Taking projects to completion: site acceptance testing, commissioning and handover