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2020

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


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
  • Control loop: 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