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Omniflex: a 50-year history
July 2015, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
The beginning On the 1st July 1965 a young chemical engineer and entrepreneur started an innovative industrial electronics company in Durban, South Africa. His idea was to take advantage of the newly ...

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From the editor's desk: A world of possibility waits
Technews Industry Guide - Wireless 2015, Technews Publishing
In some ways, the hype that surrounded industrial wireless about five years ago actually hampered its adoption in process industry applications. There was confusion about standards, there was confusion ...

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Yokogawa to develop quality management system for stem cell production
June 2015, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation has announced that it will join the Smart Cell Processing project, a joint undertaking of industrial, administrative, and academic organisations in Japan and the ...

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ISA and Automation Federation take part in annual FIRST Championship
June 2015
As strategic alliance partners of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), the International Society of Automation (ISA) and its umbrella organisation, the Automation Federation, ...

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Parker’s GVM electric motor goes motorcycle racing
June 2015, Parker Hannifin - Sales Company South Africa
Parker Hannifin is sponsoring Victory Motorcycles as they compete in the 2015 Isle of Man TT Zero Challenge. In addition to being a marquis sponsor, Parker’s race-proven, high-performance GVM (global ...

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2015 Spring European EtherCAT Plug Fest breaks records, highlights growing interest in interoperability testing
June 2015
The EtherCAT Technology Group’s (ETG) first EtherCAT Plug Fest in 2015 broke several records. Never before have so many companies with so many different devices and so many master-slave combinations for ...

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Endress+Hauser Pyrotemp appoints new general manager
June 2015, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser Pyrotemp has appointed Ben White as its new general manager following the decision by predecessor, Chris Gimson, to take up semi-retirement and the challenging role as training manager ...

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Laverick Media Communications establishes two specialist business divisions to accommodate future growth
June 2015
Specialist PR and advertising agency, Laverick Media Communications (LMC), has announced the establishment of two divisions – LMC PR and LMC Creative – effective from 1 May. CEO Sonia Laverick explains ...

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MESA International recognises eight outstanding contributors
June 2015
The Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International has announced the winners of its 2015 ‘Outstanding Contribution to MESA’ award. The annual award was established in 2008 to recognise ...

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Dehn works to save Africa’s children from lightning injuries
June 2015
Dehn Africa has joined forces with the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics (ACLE) to help to protect schools and students in Africa from lightning strikes and the resulting injuries. Founded ...

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Mitech Control Valves upgrades test facility to meet international standards
June 2015, Mitech Control Valves
Mitech Control Valves, with its expertise deeply rooted in severe service applications, offers solutions to industrial process control applications in the oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, paper and ...

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MESA International appoints two South African board members
June 2015
MESA International (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) recently announced the appointment of Johan de Villiers, DRA Group Holdings, to its international board of directors and Gerhard Greeff, ...

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Siemens gets closer to system integrators at Process Instrumentation partner day
June 2015, Siemens South Africa
In light of the Siemens Vision 2020 and wanting to achieve first prominence among its customers, Siemens Process Instrumentation spent a team building day with its top system integrators, with the aims ...

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OPC Foundation and EtherCAT Technology Group to cooperate regarding common Industrie 4.0 interfaces
June 2015
OPC UA is about scalable communication with integrated security by design up to MES/ERP systems and into the cloud, EtherCAT is about hard real-time capability in machines and factory control systems. ...

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New distribution agreement extends wireless module choices at RS Components and Allied Electronics
June 2015, RS South Africa
RS Components (RS) and Allied Electronics (Allied) have introduced an exciting new range of wireless modules and system-in-package devices, under an exclusive distribution agreement with Jorjin Technologies ...

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Proud milestone for National Laboratory Association
June 2015, National Laboratory Association
The National Laboratory Association of South Africa (NLA) recently opened its new calibration/metrology training facility at Persequor TechnoPark, Pretoria.    Executive director of the NLA, Steve Sidney, ...

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Africa Automation Fair 2015: Fair Comment
June 2015
Rudi Tuffek, chairman of the IIG    Africa Automation Fair 2015, incorporating Process Expo Africa, was a huge success. The IIG were very proud to be part of the newly-branded international automation ...

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Obituary: Andrew Ashton (9 December 1950 - 18 June 2015)
June 2015, Technews Publishing
It is with deep sadness that the staff of Technews Publishing heard of the death of our dear friend and much esteemed colleague, Andrew Ashton.    Jon (Andrew) Charles Ashton passed away on Thursday, ...

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From the editor's desk: All the fun of the Fair
June 2015, Technews Publishing
On the morning of 5 May, Africa Automation Fair opened its doors and delivered emphatically on its promise to be the largest most comprehensive showcase of industrial control technology in the southern ...

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Stefan Hoppe named OPC Foundation vice president
May 2015
The OPC Foundation has named Stefan Hoppe, a member of the Foundation’s board of directors and president of OPC Europe, as its new vice president. Hoppe will take a global leadership role in the effort ...

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