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Increased demand for HMI solutions says Frost & Sullivan
June 2012
The increasing enforcement of health, safety and environmental regulations, coupled with energy efficiency requirements, is expected to fuel demand for human machine interface (HMI) products across end-user ...

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Lapp Group innovations at Hannover Messe
June 2012, LAPP Southern Africa
The Lapp Group presented a number of new ideas at this year’s Hannover Messe with the emphasis on innovative products geared towards the group’s core markets: machine building and mechanical and plant ...

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Mine site automation and communication
June 2012
Increasing mine productivity and improving worker safety through the implementation and integration of communication and automation technologies. Mine Site Automation and Communication Africa 2012 will ...

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Fieldbus Foundation supports new IEC technical report
June 2012
The Fieldbus Foundation today announced its support for a new International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) report that provides guidance to end users for selecting an industry-standard device integration ...

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Appointments
June 2012
SEW-Eurodrive has appointed Quintin Barratt as an assembler.       SEW-Eurodrive has appointed Hendri Oosthuizen as sales engineer.       SEW-Eurodrive has appointed Andreas Meid as project engineer.    SEW-Eurodrive ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Future manufacturing is now
June 2012
The April edition of The Economist has an important special report: ‘The Third Industrial Revolution’. Here is a summary. The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with ...

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CBI-electric believes the bulk of counterfeit products caught before sale
1 June 2012, CBI-electric: low voltage
Urgent customer service announcement from CBI-electric.

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From the editor's desk: Wireless frontiers - which technology would you plump for?
June 2012, Technews Publishing
In an article in this issue titled ‘Wireless adoption in process automation’, ARC vice president, Chantal Polsonetti, elaborates on the way device-level wireless solutions are gaining momentum in process ...

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Opto 22 PAC goes to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
May 2012
Industrial controls manufacturer Opto 22 played a central role in the reliable operation of filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron’s technologically advanced prototype submersible ...

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Siemens supplies solar powered ski lift
May 2012, Siemens South Africa
The world’s first solar ski lift is being operated in Tenna, in the Swiss Canton of Grisons, where the Skilift Tenna cooperative opted for technology from Siemens’ Industry Automation Division to modernise ...

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Rockwell Automation wins significant process order from Nyrstar Hobart
May 2012, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation and its Global Solutions team have received a multi-million dollar order from leading global metals company, Nyrstar Hobart, to replace a distributed control system (DCS) with its ...

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SANAS on-site calibration accreditation for Unitemp Laboratory
May 2012
Just over a year ago, the unitemp calibration laboratory received accreditation by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) and the lab became known as SANAS Lab 363 for temperature metrology. ...

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Vega Instruments SA expands apprenticeship programme
May 2012, VEGA Controls SA
For Karabo Sekano and Thekiso Michael Hlabeli, their dreams of becoming skilled instrumentation technicians are closer to realisation as they start a year of apprenticeship training at Vega Instruments ...

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National Instruments releases 2012 embedded systems outlook
May 2012
National Instruments has released its 2012 Embedded Systems Outlook report which shares the company’s conclusions about the direction of the embedded systems market. The report lists technology and business-level ...

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Siemens establishes customer services division
May 2012, Siemens South Africa
As part of its drive to help industrial customers increase productivity, Siemens has created a customer service division with a portfolio that includes product-related services and innovative service ...

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City of Cape Town innovates through technology with help from SSI
May 2012
The recently completed Fisantekraal waste water treatment works in Durbanville features use of today’s most innovative and up-to-date electrical, control and instrumentation technology. The plant is an ...

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Supplier award for SKF
May 2012, SKF South Africa
SKF South Africa’s Automotive Division was the recent recipient of an award in ‘Supplier of the Year 2011’ from MAN Truck and Bus SA. There were three categories, with SKF falling into ‘Service Parts ...

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European business award for Siemens
May 2012, Siemens South Africa
Strategy consultants Roland Berger has presented the seventh ‘Best of European Business’ awards with the focus on successful and sustainable corporate strategy in Africa. “No other German company has ...

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Tectra assists with the development of RAS technology
May 2012
Tectra Automation has joined forces with the Mechatronics, Automation and Design Research Group (MADRG) of Stellenbosch University’s Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering to help conduct ...

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Fieldbus Foundation co-sponsors field communication lounge at Hannover Fair
May 2012
The Fieldbus Foundation joined the FDT Group, HART Communication Foundation, PI (Profibus and Profibus International) and the OPC Foundation, to host the second co-sponsored Field Communication Lounge ...

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