Yokogawa SA wins Tutuka Power Station contract October 2011, Yokogawa South Africa Yokogawa SA has been awarded the contract to supply the outside water handling plant at Eskom’s Tutuka Power Station with its Centum VP process control solution.
Speaking at the contract signing ceremony ...
National Instruments introduces multicore Compact RIO October 2011 NI expands the advanced control and monitoring platform with higher performance and smaller form factor targets.
National Instruments has announced an expansion to its growing NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) ...
Industrial PC becomes a control system October 2011, Phoenix Contact The PC Worx RT Basic software PLC from Phoenix Contact transforms any industrial PC into a fully fledged control system. Programming, visualisation and control can therefore be combined in just one device, ...
Advanced field digital technology October 2011, Yokogawa South Africa Yokogawa announces development of new CENTUM VP control system version.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the development of Release 5 of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system, ...
Endress+Hauser's RA33 batch controller October 2011, Endress+Hauser South Africa Quick and precise dosing control.
Measurement technology from Endress+Hauser can assist to increase the quality of a filling process with the new RA33 batch controller that combines a compact, multifunctional ...
Extended safety functions in TwinCAT 3 October 2011, Beckhoff Automation Integrated engineering concept and scalable safety runtime on an IPC.
With the introduction of the new TwinCAT 3 software generation, Beckhoff offers a pure software safety technology which features ...
Safety controller for mobile vehicles September 2011, ifm - South Africa The R360 is ifm electronic’s newest mobile controller for safety-related applications in mobile vehicles. All internal and external functions are reliably monitored and in the case of an error, are switched ...
New PLC and colour HMI from Unitronics August 2011, Vision Automation Unitronics has introduced the newest big-screen member of its PLC+HMI family, the Vision1210. Industrial control processes can now enjoy full PLC functionality with a larger than ever SVGA colour touch-screen ...
Rockwell Automation technology powers wave energy project August 2011, Rockwell Automation Thanks to leading solutions from Rockwell Automation, an innovative energy project by Wave Star, aimed at developing a reliable commercial wave energy solution, is well on the way to harnessing power ...
Beckhoff - 25 years of PC control August 2011, Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff Automation was established in 1980 and the first PC-based machine controller was delivered by just six years later. It was a ‘simple’ controller for a double mitre saw, which encompassed single-axis ...
NI expands FPGA-enabled PXI family July 2011 New offering includes industry’s fastest 16-bit converter from Analog Devices.
National Instruments has introduced the expansion of its NI FlexRIO product line with six new adapter modules featuring ...
FPGAs in automation and control June 2011 One technology that helps meet the high performance and efficiency needs of today’s machines is the field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
Beckhoff's compact room controller June 2011, Beckhoff Automation Bundled functionality for single room control.
Multisystem room automation is of great importance both for efficient operation of buildings and for the individual comfort of users and, over and above ...
PC power redefines small controllers June 2011, Beckhoff Automation, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA) 32 bit controller with integrated fieldbus and I/O interface.
Within the Beckhoff controller categories, the CX8000 is positioned between the 16 bit embedded controllers and the CX9010 embedded PCs. ...
TwinCAT Telecontrol Configurator 13 April 2011, Beckhoff Automation Using the TwinCAT Telecontrol Configurator, the configuration of the complex IEC-61400-25 data model is possible without requiring specialised programming skills
Siemens expands controller range April 2011, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA), Siemens South Africa The Siemens Industry Automation Division has expanded its range of Simatic-S7-300 controllers and improved their performance. In the compact class, all six CPUs have been completely redesigned. They now ...
Festo's process automation solutions 1 April 2011, Festo South Africa Festo will exhibit process automation solutions with a focus on the water and waste water, food and beverage and petrochemical industries.
This will cover PLC control, centralised, decentralised and ...
Yokogawa's integrated production control system 1 April 2011, Yokogawa South Africa Since Yokogawa introduced the world’s first distributed control system in 1975, more than 21 000 systems have been delivered worldwide. The latest CENTUM VP is an integrated production control system, ...
