Cost and energy savings for Assmang January 2005, Rockwell Automation The Maximum Demand and Energy Management system is structured around an Allen Bradley ControlLogix 55L63 ControlLogix PLC (programmable logic controller) system combined with state-of-the-art Allen Bradley Power Monitor 3000 units
Value-added automation solutions December 2004, Products & Solutions AMR Automations is a software engineering company specialising in the development of value-added automation solutions for the pharmaceutical, storage and warehousing, materials handling, food and beverage ...
Integrated production control system December 2004, Yokogawa South Africa Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Release 3.05, an upgraded version of its flagship integrated production control system featuring enhanced functionality, including remote ...
Poor control performance is a worldwide phenomenon December 2004, Michael Brown Control Engineering Based on my experience in every one of the several hundred plants where I have performed optimisation, less than 5% of all loops in automatic operate at all effectively. ...
Enhanced optical transceiver for automotive applications 6 October 2004, Electrocomp, Opto-Electronics A new fibre-optics transceiver from Infineon Technologies comes in a new modified low-cost cavity as interface (CAI) package and complies with the latest media oriented systems transport (MOST) PHY 1.1 ...
Speeding up implementation and maintenance of automation October 2004, Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk is a scalable information platform that integrates plant-wide control systems and connects the enterprise with the production facility
Industrial router aids remote commissioning in Kenya October 2004, Throughput Technologies, Information Security Gauteng-based systems integrators, RAM-TEC Systems, recently purchased a Westermo ED-20 Industrial Router from Throughput Technologies. The purpose of this router is to allow them to establish, via a ...
Networking with the hearing impaired September 2004, Adroit Technologies The Adroit scada is configured to accept all alarm conditions and part of this is that the alarming functionality is used to monitor the doors of the facility
Savings with soft starter retrofit September 2004, ATI Systems The ability to replace a five stage, 90 kW slip ring motor starter system with a Fairford QFE soft starter has enabled one of Europe's largest processors of mineral-based products to update a Lopulco ...
Automation in the home September 2004, Centurion Micro Electronics (CME), Retail (Industry) Advantech has produced hardware in answer to the booming 'eHome' market. The new EH-7105G residential terminal is designed to be an application ready platform that allows system integrators to ...
Filling 500 toothpaste tubes per minute August 2004, Varispeed (A Division of Hudaco Trading) The new Norden Pac tube filler, the NM/NP 50025, is a 3rd generation machine - 3G
Altech Informatics to automate new super alloy plant August 2004, Infrastructure, Security Services & Risk Management Avmin Alloys (Avalloy), a division of African Rainbow Minerals (ex: Avmin), has awarded a contract for the automation of its new alloy plant to Altech Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the multibillion ...
Nestlé Waters' Pure Life plant August 2004, Products & Solutions Nestlé is one of the world's largest food companies and Nestlé Waters is the world's largest bottled water company. Bottled water is one of the fastest growing sectors of the beverage industry, estimated ...
Compact, distributed control system with integrated Ethernet August 2004, Phoenix Contact The ILC 350 ETH Inline controller from Phoenix Contact combines the advantages of a compact control system on the I/O level with those of an Ethernet network. Using the integrated Ethernet interface, ...
12-channel sink and source digital output modules August 2004, Centurion Micro Electronics (CME) Advantech is offering its 12-channel ADAM-4056S sink type and the ADAM-4056SO source type isolated digital output modules. These two modules provide higher maximum load than any of the other ADAM-4000 ...
New alarm management system launched August 2004, Yokogawa South Africa Yokogawa Electric Corporation has completed development of AAASuite, a comprehensive alarm management system that optimises and enhances process alarms issued by control systems. AAASuite improves operator ...
Control system makeover for DPI Plastics June 2004, Ana-Digi Systems The time had come for an upgrade to the mixing plant, which was duly completed by Ana-Digi Systems in November 2003
Altech Informatics to automate new super alloy plant June 2004 Avmin Alloys (Avalloy), a division of African Rainbow Minerals (ex: Avmin), has awarded a contract for the automation of its new alloy plant to Altech Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the multibillion ...