ARC Advisory Group features MDT software July 2009 A new solution guide from the ARC Advisory Group examines the impact of configuration management on the performance of automation assets. This solution guide titled ‘Configuration Management for Automation ...
Endress+Hauser strengthens resolve July 2009, Endress+Hauser South Africa Strong growth in net sales and a net profit was a key feature of the 2008 business year for the Endress+Hauser Group. However, towards the end of the year the Group began to feel the effects of the global ...
Smar agency for Allpronix July 2009, Allpronix Smar offers a wide range of field instruments which includes gauge and differential pressure transmitters and non-nuclear density transmitters that are available in 4–20 mA HART, Foundation Fieldbus and ...
Foskor order for BMG July 2009, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG BMG’s project division has secured the order from Foskor for conveyor drives that will meet the demands of heavy-duty shock load drive applications at the company’s Phosphate rock miner and processor ...
Endress+Hauser masterminds July 2009, Endress+Hauser South Africa In April 2009, over 200 inventors from the Endress+Hauser Group met at the ‘Innovators Meeting’ 2009 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. The event celebrated the 200 inventions for which new patents ...
Flotron on the move July 2009 Stellenbosch-based Flotron Technology specialises in the development, manufacture, installation and support of a range of flow and level measurement products as well as the MyCity web-based monitoring ...
Yokogawa promotes wireless standard July 2009, Yokogawa South Africa Yokogawa Electric Corporation is promoting efforts to develop the ISA100.11a*1 wireless communication standard for the process automation (PA) industry. Based on this standard, Yokogawa will develop a ...
10-year service award July 2009, ifm - South Africa Hannes Jones joined Shorrock Automation in May 1999 as a sales engineer in Richards Bay. This was the start of a new sales office for the company under the wing of the KZN Branch. Hannes has worked successfully ...
Appointments July 2009 SEW Eurodrive has appointed Rayno de Beer as sales engineer for the Witbank and Middelburg area.
OMSA Valves and Instrumentation has appointed Christo Du Randt as technical sales representative for ...
The Jim Pinto Column: Prospecting the future July 2009 As we move into the second decade of the new millennium, several significant shifts are becoming evident. Wars continue to be waged; the US is shifting emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan, while Pakistan ...
Pilansberg pipeline July 2009 Thuthuka pipes water to platinum mine in record time.
Thuthuka Group (TGL) has just completed the design and implementation of a 30 km, 750 mm diameter, steel water pipeline between Padda Junction and ...
A star is born July 2009, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) How many know that scientists have been working to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for more than half a century?
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore ...
GE wins Transnet order June 2009 Transnet, the owner and operator of South Africa’s strategic petroleum and gas pipeline infrastructure, has selected GE Oil & Gas to supply electrically driven pump packages for a new multiproduct pipeline ...
Protection acquisition for Emerson June 2009 Emerson Process Management has acquired epro GmbH of Gronau, Germany, to expand its expertise and resources in machinery prediction and protection. The deal expands Emerson’s online machinery monitoring ...
Airbus order for GE Fanuc June 2009 GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms received an order for a customised version of the company’s CL11 single board computer (blade) from Airbus (Toulouse, France). The CL11 will be deployed as part of the cabin ...
Emerson technologist honoured June 2009 The American Institute of Chemical Engineers recognised Dr Douglas White, a principal consultant for Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb Solutions Group at its annual spring meeting in Tampa, Florida. ...
Appointments June 2009 Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings has appointed Chris Johnson and Guy McDougal as safety systems consultants, Zelda Lehetla as technical manager and Martin Maeriën as supply chain specialist.
Safety milestone for Honeywell June 2009 For the first time at a single project level, Honeywell has achieved over one million man hours without a disabling injury. This was attained at Eskom’s Grootvlei power station over the last three years.
Honeywell ...
The Jim Pinto Column: Wireless standards wars - two years later June 2009 In September 2007, when HART-7 and WirelessHART standards were released, Honeywell and others insisted that the ISA-100 standard was worth waiting for, and would be released in 'months'.
Now finally, ...
