December 2018: Feature Articles

• IR cameras with leading edge technology
• Key digital transformation IT concepts for operations
• Craft breweries benefit from digitalisation with modular Siemens automation
• Paper mill saves with IR window program
• Data centre management as a service
• PC-based control simplifies building revitalisation
• EtherCAT roadshow in South Africa

November 2018: Feature Articles

• First rack-mounted switches that comply with the IEC 61850-3 Edition 2 Class 2 Standard
• Electra Mining Africa 2018: a platform for our future in mining
• Food safety hazards and how to choose sensor solutions
• Wise choices to decrease fire risk and improve safety
• Network-based process visualisation
• New patch panel for Ethernet networks
• PC-based control ­ increases throughput in additive ­manufacturing

October 2018: Feature Articles

• The Digitalisation Productivity Bonus
• The 5 stages of cybersecurity awareness
• How adding services to products could start your journey towards an Industry 4.0 solution
• Energy management software
• Using IIoT analytics to build customer solutions
• Key considerations when designing IIoT networks for smart businesses
• Paving the way to a digital future

September 2018: Feature Articles

• Prepare for the future
• Foxboro’s top performing intelligent vortex flowmeters
• Selecting appropriate pressure gauges
• Yokogawa releases Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation R5.02
• Technology that gets under your skin
• Smart factory technology to power the Industry 4.0 revolution
• PC-based control ensures high quality sporting goods
• Laser sensor specifications ­explained
• Integrity management key for ­industrial assets
• Pyrogen system ideal for fire protection in cabinet systems
• How to choose an industrial safety controller
• Electronic turbine overspeed ­protection has advantages
• WirelessHART in process ­automation
• Telecontrol unit with integrated GPS
• How to tell category data cables apart
• Weatherproof cabinets from ­Legrand
• Analog display with IO-Link
• High voltage DC contactors
• Asset management and energy ­efficiency toolkit

August 2018: Feature Articles

• Pushing the pulper towards maximum efficiency
• The art of craft
• Packaging keeps food fresh for ­longer
• OT-IT convergence in a legacy world
• Measuring instrument in good health?
• Machine evolution yields higher ­efficiency and quality in processing
• Eliminating the modernisation backlog in record time
• An examination of the current qualification options available to student engineers in South Africa

July 2018: Feature Articles

• Success through measurement expertise and product innovation
• Inductive Automation’s I­gnition technology offers potential to ­disrupt the market
• Monitoring of stacked workpieces
• Modernising the Cholfirst Tunnel control engineering system
• Planning with foresight

Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things & Industry 4.0: Feature Articles

• A new path appears for modular and IoT-capable machines and systems
• How real is augmented reality?
• Controlling the IIoT
• Aspects to consider when securing ­industrial automation control system networks
• Endress+Hauser’s IIoT technology masters the mining challenge
• Cables for robots in the Industry 4.0 era
• Industrial fieldbus to the IIoT
• Sensorik 4.0 provides added value for intra-logistics
• Intelligent production enables minimised downtime and optimal efficiency
• New platforms for HTML5 visualisation

June 2018: Feature Articles

• Latest generation compact inverters from Mitsubishi Electric
• Ultra-compact industrial PCs
• A game plan for digital transformation
• Friendship through technology

May 2018: Feature Articles

• Customised calibration and commissioning concepts ensure system availability
• Past, present, and future trends in EAM and CMMS
• Yokogawa’s alarm shelving capability

April 2018: Feature Articles

• Yokogawa’s revolutionary network-based control system
• Pipeline integrity management
• Linear actuator drive selection
• Versatile signal conditioners

Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2018: Feature Articles

• Festo’s comprehensive asset optimisation, maintenance and energy efficiency solutions
• Using predictive analytics to improve planned maintenance
• Remote monitoring without the risks
• Precise positioning and interference-free communication
• Leading industrial organisations improve asset management with IIoT
• How smart sensors aid predictive maintenance as part of Industrie 4.0
• Condition monitoring can have a positive impact on OEE

March 2018: Feature Articles

• Define your game plan for digital transformation at X-Change 2018
• New technology automates Modbus routing setup in gateways
• Selecting valves for proportional control
• Adding wireless communication to vibration monitoring
• Fibre optic sensors for detecting hot rollers on conveyors
• SICK launches a new generation of photoelectric sensors

February 2018: Feature Articles

• Beckhoff in control at Africa’s largest retail distribution centre
• What is the future of blockchain in manufacturing?
• Driving OEE improvements
• Should solenoid valves be classed as commodity items?
• RFID technology for accurate ­production

January 2018: Feature Articles

• Simple and easy to use, yet smart enough to automate
• Risk management in automotive manufacturing
• Choosing the best IIoT platform
• Modular HMI for hazardous areas
• Image processing directly in the PLC