December 2000: Feature Articles

• Latest comms technology commissioned at smelter project
• Steam metering
• Total machinery protection, condition and performance monitoring
• Planning and performing a power quality survey
• Intelligent valves facilitate distributed control
• Flue gas analysis
• Monitoring of power supply quality
• Implications of Microsoft.NET for scada
• Linear-linked CNC centre keeps up a high production rate

November 2000: Feature Articles

• Systems integrator provides full range of product and services
• Minimising limitations imposed by proprietary systems
• Extending information and control via the intranet/Internet
• A realtime solution to asset management
• Manufacturing in the age of e-business - the role of MES
• Process control concept promises simplicity of operation for large systems
• New technologies for hybrid control system
• Sector-specific solutions for process automation?
• Dust emission monitoring by laser
• Wastewater treatment solutions
• Quality valve features tubeless solenoid valve
• Reproducible hardness measurement
• 'Below the line' outsourcing of IT functions - new model, new service-level agreements
• Locating battery ground faults without sectionalising
• Safety light-screen with muting function

September 2000: Feature Articles

• Innovative measuring techniques for sewage treatment plants
• Flowmeter with portable or fixed installation option
• Protecting wastewater treatment processes
• Fieldbus technology can offer the process industry significant savings
• Hart communications
• Intelligent positioner with early-warning capability
• UK National Grid case study - SA scada HMI in innovative project
• Paperless recorders come of age
• PLCs automate world-class oleoresin factory
• Pilot lights made to last
• Management of sealed lead acid batteries in reliable small DC standby power supply systems
• Food manufacturer also uses Protean for sales projections and segment profitability analysis
• Batch management and execution made easy for Windows
• SA-Austria partnership brings world-first global supplier of primary mobile cutting machinery
• Cutting spent on PLCs by half
• Alarm systems and their role in abnormal situation management: Part IV of IV
• The changing role of systems integrators in instrumentation in the process industry

July 2000: Feature Articles

• Tyco - a company in a league of its own
• Total networking of manufacturing-related processes is the way of the future
• Scada/PLC system reduces production stops at Mercedes Benz
• Alarm systems and their role in abnormal situation management: Part II of IV
• Leader in electrical distribution supports South Africa's natural heritage
• Introduction of a windows CE- based realtime control system
• Alarm systems and their role in abnormal situation management: Part III of IV
• Alarm systems and their role in abnormal situation management: Part IV of IV

June 2000: Feature Articles

• Tapping into the hidden Conet resource
• Complete Automation: A response to changing demand in the automation industry
• Alarm systems and their role in abnormal situation management: Part I of IV
• Replacing existing level instruments with radar - does it make sense?
• Ultrasonic level measurement is by no means on its way out
• Expensive polythylene overflow problem is solved through effective implementation of radiosotope-based level detectors
• A quality control valve, designed for flexibility, with precision

May 2000: Feature Articles

• The idea that accelerated industrial automation- and played a role in the founding of a company
• Vega through'Eric' is a global market leader in radar level measurement
• Asset management strategies for the food industry
• Diaphragm seals and instrument isolators
• Omniflex displays annunciator prowess
• Embedded web servers- a new technology trend
• Lightning protection the bare facts
• System Intergrators: a vision for the future
• Ultrasonic flow measuring technologies

April 2000: Feature Articles

• Transparent factory concept set to become the future of automation
• Interbus- increased communication efficiency
• Electronic data transfer: The history and a solution for the current serial to Ethernet interface dilemma
• A coherant, Modular and forward thinking design platform
• Important Development in servo technology
• Interfacing digital electrical measurement devices into the modern plant.

March 2000: Feature Articles

• Totally intergrated automation- consistent to the end of spiralling costs in automation.
• The Spero Group- ground breaking example of defence expertise spin off
• Measuring pH at the headbox in the paper making process
• Keeping in touch at SAB Rosslyn:one click away from information
• Anchored to an information-rich future
• A guide to cableless scada communication
• B-IO:made-to-measure remote I/0
• Telemtry in 2000-as seen by a local scada developer
• Telemtry for Africa, from Africa
• Liquid mass measurement-where advanced technology and ERP systems come in
• White water pH in the pulp and paper industry

Feb 2000: Feature Articles

• Particle Analysis goes on-line
• Arca Valves strengthens ties with Valve & Automation
• Fully automated pump testing facility controled by local scada software
• More questions than answers at the speed of light.

Jan 2000: Feature Articles

• Emerging communications standard for rugged domains
• Reducing the cocts of custody transfer in the petroleum industry
• Computer age gains respect of economists.