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Siemens - 150 years of business in South Africa
May 2010, Siemens South Africa
It is set to be an action packed year for Siemens South Africa. For a company that prides itself on the sustainability of its business, the celebration of its 150 years in South Africa is a milestone. ...

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Appointments
May 2010
Ana-Digi Systems has appointed Freddie Gonsalves as manager of its Johannesburg branch.    Hybrid Automation, a Siemens Approved System Integrator and Process Instrumentation Partner, has appointed Nimelen ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Pinto prognostications - global financial futures
May 2010
Following the trillion-$ ‘stimulus’, the big banks are doing well again, and the stock market appears to be inching up. But, in my opinion, the fundamentals have NOT been corrected and more financial ...

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ARC news
May 2010
The manufacturing recovery has begun but is it sustainable? Automation supplier revenues continued to fall throughout 2009 as compared to 2008. ARC expects that year-on-year comparisons between 2008 ...

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Travel and money
May 2010, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
At the time that this issue is going to print, SA Instrumentation & Control’s editor Steven Meyer is accompanying Endress+Hauser’s 'Interkama Tour' to Hannover Fair 2010. Steven reports that the tour ...

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Beget signs exclusive finger vein ID agreement
14 April 2010
Biovein verifies identities by capturing images of the vein patterns inside a finger by passing a near-infrared light through the finger to record the image on a CCD camera

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Good results from ABB
April 2010
ABB reported earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of almost $800 million in the fourth quarter, despite approximately $350 million in restructuring-related charges. Full-year profitability was well ...

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Honeywell supports unified standards
April 2010, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Honeywell has announced that it has joined the EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) and will support efforts to develop a single, unified standard for integrating field devices with industrial facility control ...

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Born to be electric
April 2010
South Africans visiting the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland next month can look forward to seeing their very own all-electric car – Joule – proudly showcased at one of Europe’s most important automotive ...

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Emerson collaborates with Shell
April 2010
Emerson Process Management has entered into a 5-year global framework agreement with Shell to serve as a main automation contractor on future capital projects globally. Under the agreement, Emerson ...

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National Instruments adds vision capabilities
April 2010
National Instruments has announced the addition of machine vision capabilities to NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware devices that provide engineers with an integrated measurement and control ...

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Pneudrive road show update
April 2010, SEW-Eurodrive
The PneuDrive Challenge team visited the University of Johannesburg Mechanical Engineering faculty earlier this month, where students under Professor Japie van Wyk listened and interacted well with the ...

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OMSA restructures for added value
April 2010
The OMSA group of companies – OMSA Operational Marketing and OMSA Pewag – known throughout southern Africa for tyre chain protectors, quality industrial valves, lubrication systems and filters, has re-structured ...

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ABB's SA investment pays off
April 2010, ABB South Africa
ABB South Africa, a subsidiary of the global power and automation technologies group, implemented its biggest investment programme in 2009, despite the economic downturn. The company modernised its operations ...

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APC to assist SA resellers
April 2010
APC by Schneider Electric has launched a field education programme to establish a skilled team that is dedicated to its resellers in South Africa. “This is an investment into the development of the local ...

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IPAP could create 700 000 jobs
April 2010
The Department of Trade and Industry has unveiled South Africa’s 2010/11 Industrial Policy Framework Action Plan (IPAP). Growth consultants Frost & Sullivan expected this plan to have a direct and, hopefully, ...

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Adroit's new scada intelligence
April 2010
Adroit Technologies is in the process of announcing yet another addition to its software suite, namely SCADA Intelligence. This product will enable users to extract intelligence from raw data by connecting ...

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Ethekwini contractor for Beyond Wireless
April 2010
Local wireless machine to machine (M2M) communication solutions provider, Beyond Wireless, is in the final stages of rolling out a GPRS-based communications platform and condition monitoring system for ...

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Endorsements for Pneudrive Challenge
April 2010, SEW-Eurodrive
The PneuDrive Challenge, a mechatronic design competition sponsored by SEW-Eurodrive and Festo, has just announced the endorsement of their student initiative by two major industry bodies. The SAIEE (South ...

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Bearing Man's drives facility
April 2010, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG
The Bearing Man Group’s drives facility at Mahogany Ridge, Westmead, KZN, started operations last year. It has now completed numerous high value projects for plants in various sectors, including sugar, ...

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