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Emerson earns Reuters global innovator award
February 2012, Emerson Automation Solutions
Emerson Process Management’s Rosemount business unit was named a Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator SM, recognising its achievements as one of the world’s most innovative companies. The programme, ...

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Omron recognised for open technology
February 2012, Omron Electronics
At SPS/IPC/Drives Fair 2011 in Nuremberg, Omron was awarded the Certificate of Compliance for Function Blocks for Motion Control by PLCopen. Omron was recognised by PLCopen for implementing and complying ...

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ARC's sixteenth annual world industry forum
February 2012
The ARC Advisory Group’s sixteenth annual World Industry Forum will be held this year at the Renaissance Orlando, SeaWorld hotel in Florida from 6-9 February. This year’s forum programmes cover a wide ...

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SA to lead ISO working group on energy efficiency
February 2012
Delegates to the Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention 2011 were the first to hear that South Africa had been appointed as the chair of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) working group ...

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RS Components and SMC sign new global agreement
February 2012, RS South Africa
RS Components has signed a new global trading agreement with SMC, a world leader in pneumatics. The agreement furthers the partnership initiated between the two companies in 2009 by incorporating several ...

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Invensys signs technology agreement with Shell
February 2012
Invensys Operations Management has announced that it has signed a multiyear, multimillion dollar contract to deliver comprehensive software solutions and services to Shell. Under a new corporate enterprise ...

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Manufacturing excellence award for Endress+Hauser Conducta
February 2012, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser Conducta is the overall winner of the nationwide Manufacturing Excellence Award (MX Award) in Germany. In addition, the liquid analysis specialist was the winner of the information technology ...

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Bytes sponsors MESA international global education program in South Africa
February 2012
Bytes Systems Integration has announced that it will sponsor the Manufacturing Enterprise Solution Association (MESA) Global Education Program (GEP) Certificate of Competence (CoC) course that will run ...

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Vega's continued involvement at Thandanini
February 2012, VEGA Controls SA
For the 23 children living at Thandanani House of Refuge, Christmas came early last year thanks to Vega Instruments SA, a corporate sponsor of the home. Established in early 2003, the home is part of ...

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Fieldbus Foundation announces development services provider program
February 2012
The Fieldbus Foundation has announced that Softing Industrial Automation, a global provider of hardware and software for industrial automation and automotive electronics, is the first company qualified ...

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Invensys - the power of won!
February 2012
Win the productivity war; win the energy efficiency reporting struggle and win the mobile tracking challenge at X-CHANGE 2012. Three days of presentation, networking and training focused on benefitting ...

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Operations management award for Bytes System Integration
February 2012
Bytes Systems Integration and Eskom Generation recently won the Invensys Operations Management Open International award for the implementation of an enterprise wide environmental monitoring solution for ...

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Appointments
February 2012
Schneider Electric South Africa has appointed Martin van Zyl as general manager for the mining, metals and minerals segment.    Honeywell has appointed Mohammed Sali-Ameen as strategic market leader for ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Industrial automation - past, present and future
February 2012
I thought you might enjoy a summary of an article that was published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Canadian magazine, Manufacturing Automation. When Manufacturing Automation started a quarter ...

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Omsa supplies butterfly valves to Seaworld
February 2012
The OMSA Group has supplied over 100 Praher PVC butterfly valves to the largest aquarium in the southern hemisphere, uShaka Marine World in Durban. After a lengthy trial period, the aquarium decided that ...

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Actom completes Pietermaritzburg signalling contract
February 2012
Actom Signalling recently completed a R75-million signalling upgrade contract for Transnet Freight Rail on the main line between Johannesburg and Durban, vandalism prevention was a primary focus. The ...

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From the editor's desk: I/O management a highlight in this issue
February 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
In his column this month, Jim Pinto reviews the automation industry of the past and prognosticates on some of the possibilities that could evolve in the future. “Today’s factories and process plants are ...

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Old buildings crowned energy efficient
31 January 2012
The latest National Energy Barometer Survey Awards have proven that age and size is not a deterrent when it comes to being energy efficient. The survey winners announced at the end of last year, showcased ...

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Taking data centre efficiencies to the next level
31 January 2012, Schneider Electric South Africa
For many years, as a country with the cheapest electricity in the world, South African businesses did not place the same focus on energy consumption and efficiency as companies situated in other countries. ...

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Honeywell improves operator training and performance for Eurochem
31 January 2012
HPS’ UniSim solution expected to boost production efficiency and reduce operator error at Russia’s largest fertilizer company

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