November 2020: Feature Articles

• Advanced new Festo valve portfolio gains immense popularity in industrial automation
• Omron launches HD-1500 mobile robot
• Portion cutter for fish and poultry
• Schneider Electric provides digital technologies to the mining industry
• Simple acquisition of energy consumption values
• Smart manufacturing and the new normal
• The challenges of online trace measurement
• Using existing cabling to create a new industrial LAN

October 2020: Feature Articles

• Bringing intelligence to the shop floor with Siemens Industrial Edge
• Artificial intelligence in manufacturing
• Measuring in the dust cloud
• Will OT take over MES?

September 2020: Feature Articles

• Condition monitoring solutions from Turck Banner
• Safe operation of LNG tanks
• Sensor technology now in use in explosion-protected areas
• Temperature profiling in automobile manufacture
• The Eight Commandments to digitising your shop floor workforce

August 2020: Feature Articles

• Only the best for man’s best friend
• Loop signatures: Case History 173
• PC and EtherCAT-based control technology in next-generation telescope
• The digital twin explained
• Virtual commissioning evolves into a model-driven digital twin

July 2020: Feature Articles

• Everything in view
• An example of control and automation using IIoT, edge computing and the cloud
• Fast IT rack launched in South Africa
• How IIoT solutions can help your plant go digital
• Mobile robots speed production at new smart factory
• Turbocharger for IIoT

June 2020: Feature Articles

• Exceeding the limits
• Five actions for your business and community to prepare for the digital revolution
• HMIs improve operations and maintenance collaboration
• Remote support of critical production systems in Covid-19
• Tailored to the demands of the future

May 2020: Feature Articles

• @Ease with Endress+Hauser
• Cable-type heat sensing systems
• SCiBOTRON’s quality culture the key to success
• Simply safe in the IoT environment

April 2020: Feature Articles

• Festo online configurator tool simplifies sizing of process valves
• Implementing artificial intelligence in industrial manufacturing
• More efficient engineering with automatically generated dashboard

Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2020: Feature Articles

• Condition monitoring systems from ifm
• Asset Performance Management 4.0 and beyond with risk-based maintenance
• Beyond preventive maintenance
• Condition monitoring specialists boost machine reliability
• Data and digital technologies power new trends in asset management
• High-end measurement technology drives innovation in machine availability
• What’s the difference between round and flat cables?

March 2020: Feature Articles

• Digitisation and automation for mining: the only way forward
• Breaking into the Industrial Internet of Things
• Digital transformation enables new solutions for valves and pumps
• Finding the common thread in process industries
• PC-based control drives advances in laser navigation for automated guided vehicles
• Positive displacement vs Coriolis meters

February 2020: Feature Articles

• At the forefront of packaging with XTS
• Breaking par for security at ­Woodhill
• Digital innovations using the vibronics measuring principle
• Five hydraulics technology trends
• Tailor-made mobile robotics revolutionise the automotive industry
• Technology trends to follow for 2020
• Two ABB experts predict measurement trends for 2020
• VEGA extends portfolio for pharmaceuticals production

January 2020: Feature Articles

• 11th annual MESA Africa conference
• ARCA: masters of innovation and variety in control valve solutions
• Case History 170
• Electromechanical motion products for the machines of today
• Festo’s digitalised product world
• Industrial Ethernet switches reflect ongoing evolution at the IIoT ‘thin edge’
• Tailor-made intralogistics solutions harness scalable control and drive technology