December 2010: Feature Articles

• Ölflex celebrates its origins
• Building automation meets Event-IT
• Material tracking in the auto industry
• Taking projects to completion

November 2010: Feature Articles

• Embedded PC with Atom drive
• Acid mine drainage
• EcoStruxure energy management architecture
• Historian's demise greatly exaggerated
• Intelligent toxic gas detection
• Safe even under pressure

October 2010: Feature Articles

• Future-oriented technology for renewable energy
• Identify the gaps in business priorities
• Making a mark in process instrumentation
• Manufacturing integration, execution and intelligence: Part 6 - How to implement MES and EMI. What you need to know but are afraid to ask
• Opt for innovative design partnerships
• OSIsoft's optimised paper production: Part 3 - The importance of real-time measurement of manufacturing costs and developing a sustainable production strategy
• Rockwell's integrated approach to safety
• Rollin' Justin drags crates and serves tea
• Schneider Electric's new PlantStruxure platform
• World-class chocolate manufacturing

September 2010: Feature Articles

• World-beam opposed-mode water sensors
• Adroit and Beckhoff split the atom
• Influence of the use of fieldbus
• Manufacturing integration, execution and intelligence: Part 5 - Why EMI? What you need to know but are afraid to ask
• OSIsoft's optimised paper production: Part 2 - Implementing an effective asset management programme (EAM) is vital to improving pulp and paper manufacturing in today's economy
• Reduce high maintenance costs
• Sky Chefs bakes on Beckhoff
• Terminal automation no longer optional
• Transnet Saldanha route optimisation
• Wiri Oil turns to Honeywell

August 2010: Feature Articles

• An investment that pays
• ABI chooses Wonderware
• Automated fluid management system
• Doing IT on the factory floor
• Endress+Hauser's level remains innovative
• Manufacturing integration, execution and intelligence: Part 4 - Why MES? What you need to know but are afraid to ask
• Optimised CIP processes
• OSIsoft's optimised paper production: Part 1 - An infrastructure for providing mill information becomes a model for improving pulp and paper manufacturing in today's economy
• Precision control in the greenhouse
• Remote monitoring and diagnostic centres
• Smart machines provide more power
• Steelworks application report
• Trends in packing machine design

July 2010: Feature Articles

• British Gas metering project
• Case study: Mogale Gold
• Going the short distance
• Intelligent motor control
• Iritron's Khumani expansion project
• Lonmin shows the way
• Pressure measuring instruments
• Tuneable diode laser spectroscopy

June 2010: Feature Articles

• Commodity manufacturing processes
• Cutting the cost of power
• MAPS - life cycle engineering
• Preparing for higher energy prices
• Rockwell's optimised process reporting
• Scada technologies and challenges
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 6: Frequently asked questions

May 2010: Feature Articles

• ArcelorMittal's end line inspection
• Level measurement with radar
• Nuclear software standards
• OSIsoft helps facilitate aluminium smelter upgrade
• Quarry upgraded whilst fully operational
• Redundant wireless for heavy industry automation
• The science of applied accuracy
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 5: Enterprise performance management

April 2010: Feature Articles

• Why Wonderware MES wins awards
• Augmenting process automation solutions
• BFR Digital introduces EtherWAN
• Honeywell selected at Engen in Durban
• OSIsoft innovation puts an end to seepage
• Safety systems: are your Ex loops legitimate? Part 2
• Tankvision - tank gauging re-imagined
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 4 - Manufacturing execution systems: the hub of IT in manufacturing

March 2010: Feature Articles

• Why partner with a distributor?
• Data-loggers for pharmaceutical monitoring
• Hierarchical architectures
• Hirschmann's Industrial HiVision software
• Redundant Ethernet
• Return on imagination
• Safety systems - Part 1
• Technical videos/multimedia hosted on South African web servers
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? - Part 3: Business IT and shop floor IT

February 2010: Feature Articles

• PlantWeb - solid, quantifiable results
• MES and EMI
• Trends in robotics
• Universal appeal of lighter weight robots
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about: Part 2: Managing disparate information assets

January 2010: Feature Articles

• Improving on excellence
• Locomotive breath
• More bang for your buck
• Nature's apprentice
• Rethinking drive-train implementation
• Tankvision - tank gauging re-imagined
• What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 1: Background and introduction