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Gear business driven by sustainability
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, SEW-Eurodrive, Motion Control & Drives
SEW-EURODRIVE has for many years pursued a sustainability agenda that is applied across every aspect of its business.

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The greenhouse of the future
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, ifm - South Africa, Sensors & Transducers
Feeding the world’s population despite limited resources is a task that requires ever more arable land and fresh water. Highly automated vertical farms could be the future of agriculture.

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Digital transformation for sustainable manufacturing
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, IT in Manufacturing
What is sustainability? Is it environmental impact? Triple bottom line? Making a profit? There are several answers to this question, but it can probably be summarised as “Will your business/company/operation still be around in ten years?”

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The battery of the future
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, Electrical Power & Protection
In the transition to sustainability, the world is experiencing soaring demand for renewable energy, and batteries will play a critical role. Energy storage is critical to decarbonising the world’s power systems and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Hydrogen: the key to energy turnaround
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, Pepperl+Fuchs
If you want to curb climate change, you can’t get around hydrogen. The first element of the periodic table is a key factor in decarbonising transport and industry - provided the gas is produced without CO2 emissions.

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Biggest magnet in the world
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023
The worldw’s largest and most powerful magnet is the Central Solenoid magnet in the ITER fusion reactor in France. Built by General Atomics, it is the result of over five years of research and development, and the statistics are mind-blowing.

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World’s largest concentrated solar farm
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023
Noor power station in Morocco is the largest concentrated solar power plant on the planet, and uses molten salt storage to produce electricity at night.

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VEGA expands radar portfolio for factory automation
August 2023, VEGA Controls SA, Level Measurement & Control
VEGA is known worldwide for ensuring safe and stable processes with its level and pressure sensors, even under the most difficult conditions. The world market leader is now putting the finishing touches to its radar level portfolio, especially to meet the demands of fast processes in factory automation.

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Loop signatures 19: Noise – nuisance or enemy?
August 2023, Michael Brown Control Engineering, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
This Loop Signature series of articles would not be complete without sections on the problems of noise and filtering, which are two of the most misunderstood areas in process control.

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Automation for smart factories
August 2023, ifm - South Africa, Sensors & Transducers
Sensors and automation solutions from ifm enable real-time monitoring and control of various processes in a factory. This allows for optimised production flows, reduced downtime, and improved overall efficiency.

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Mission-critical cybersecurity
August 2023, H3iSquared
In our modern world, Ethernet and TCP/IP have become the de facto standards in most mission-critical control and monitoring applications, largely due to the design of these protocol suites around the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model. However, the freedom and flexibility of being built around such an open system philosophy, while playing a large part in the success of Ethernet, also allows for many vulnerabilities which can be exploited by attackers.

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The critical role of process automation in solar farms
August 2023, Schneider Electric South Africa
The establishment of solar farms continues to grow in South Africa, with Eskom’s renewable statistics page indicating that 2787 MW of solar generating power is connected to the grid.

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The control giant from Duisburg
July 2023, Valve & Automation, News
Valve & Automation’s control valve, more than four metres tall, produced for Siemens Energy in Duisburg, has broken ARCA’s internal design height record.

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Pushing past the brink
July 2023, Motion Control & Drives
Brink Towing Systems is the global leader in developing and manufacturing towbars. The company’s modern towbar manufacturing facility is situated in Pietermaritzburg, and is equipped with a significant number of Yaskawa robotic welding cells.

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How WEG VSD technology can help deal with loadshedding
July 2023, WEG Africa, Motion Control & Drives
Variable speed drives (VSDs) are generally considered as vital contributors to energy efficiency, but they also have features that can reduce the operational disruptions caused by loadshedding.

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Case History 188: Process gain – an important dynamic.
July 2023, Michael Brown Control Engineering
When analysing a control loop, one of the important things that one must do is to determine the dynamics of the process.

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Next-generation industrial Wi-Fi
July 2023, RJ Connect, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
Moxa has introduced a new lineup of next-generation industrial wireless networking solutions that meet the current and future demands of mobile automation and IP surveillance in mining, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and many other industries where AGVs and AMRs are at the heart of boosting productivity and operational safety.

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Optimising processes through predictive analytics
July 2023, Iritron
Do you follow a differentiation strategy to beat your competition or is one of your business drivers to save cost and to increase profitability? Are there certain legal requirements that you need to comply with in terms of the products that you offer? Quality management can impact these aspects positively.

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Chip-based EtherCAT optimises field communication
June 2023
The heart of EtherCAT is the concept of the EtherCAT slave controller (ESC), which is the chip-based part of an EtherCAT field device.

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Digital controllers: Part 9 - Integral or reset windup
June 2023, Michael Brown Control Engineering
The integral or I term in a controller is a brilliant thing. It is an extremely elegant and simple solution for eliminating offset in control. However, like everything else in this world, virtually everything good has its bad side as well.

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