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Faster, cheaper, better
August 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
During an SAI&C webinar we hosted in July, technology forecaster Jim Pinto predicted that this would be the mantra of the successful manufacturing companies of the future. At first it sounds like an oxymoron, ...

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ISO energy management standard published
21 July 2011
The launch of International Standard ISO50001 is likely to add further impetus to the energy management momentum that is building in South Africa

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Fieldbus Foundation announces specification enhancements
July 2011
The Fieldbus Foundation has announced enhancements to its open, non-proprietary Foundation Fieldbus physical layer technology. The latest updates to the H1 (31,25 kbit/s) physical layer specifications ...

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SKF awarded contract with Goldwind
July 2011
SKF has been awarded a contract worth around SEK 500 million with Goldwind, a leading turbine manufacturer in China, one of the biggest orders ever for SKF in the wind energy industry. Goldwind has selected ...

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Honeywell strengthening its position in automation
July 2011
Honeywell has announced that its industrial automation business, Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), has been highly successful in diversifying from its core offerings and today commands a leadership position ...

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Schneider Electric partners with hospitality industry
July 2011
Schneider Electric has announced a partnership with the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute to offer the curriculum of its Energy University to the Institute’s membership. This represents a ...

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Creation of smart water networks
July 2011, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric, in association with Derceto, Echologics (a division of Mueller Water), i20 Water, TaKaDu and Telvent, has announced the creation of Smart Water Networks (SWAN), a global industrial ...

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Endress+Hauser reports all time high
July 2011, Endress+Hauser South Africa
The Endress+Hauser Group has reported a new all time high in net sales and profit for the 2010 financial year. The Group increased net income by 19,8% to over 1,31 billion euros – not only compensating ...

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Mine Automation and Communication Africa Summit
July 2011
Mining IQs Mine Automation and Communication Summit will bring the training, benchmarking and networking opportunities needed to ensure delegates keep up with the fast-moving technology trends in the ...

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OMSA opens new Mount Edgecombe premises
July 2011
The OMSA Group, which established its Durban office some 20 years ago, is moving to bigger premises in Mount Edgecombe. Building 2, Glen Eagle Park, 10 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe. Tel: +27 (0)31 ...

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Schneider Electric focuses on contractor segment
July 2011, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric South Africa has formed an in-house team of specialists to focus on growing the contractor segment of its business. According to Nico van der Merwe, manager of the LifeSpace business ...

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MESA SA Conference 2011
July 2011
Planning for the annual MESA SA conference is currently underway with the conference scheduled to take place on 7 October at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways. This is a further call for papers to be considered ...

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Pneudrive challenge 2011 roadshows in full swing
July 2011, SEW-EURODRIVE
Roadshows to the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Cape Peninsula Technikon, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan, Wits and Johannesburg have been completed with great success. Over 600 students attended ...

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Krohne introduces new flowmeter book
July 2011, KROHNE
Krohne’s new ‘The principles of electromagnetic flowmeters’ is a book that not only explains the measurement principle and diagnostic features of these products in detail, but also provides examples of ...

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Lapp Group's new products 2011
July 2011, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA), LAPP Southern Africa
The Lapp Group has released a basket of new products and re-invented some old ones to add extra convenience for its users this year. On the cabling front, Ölflex Classic is now available in a smaller ...

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Appointments
July 2011
APC by Schneider Electric has appointed Stan van Rensburg as its service, sales and operations manager for southern Africa.       OMSA has appointed Jan Warnken as project manager lubrication systems.    OMSA ...

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Endress+Hauser appoints new manager for local temperature production centre
July 2011, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser’s local production facility for temperature recently appointed Chris Gimson as its new general manager. Chris has been with the company for 28 years, 24 of them as technical director of ...

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Process Expo in pictures
July 2011
      “This is the first Process Expo we attended and we are positive it was worth every penny. The organisers and publication houses did a sterling job!”    Terry McIntosh, Omron Electronics.       “This ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: The changing landscape of work
July 2011
Crowdsourcing – digital meritocracy Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to an undefined, large group of people or community (a ‘crowd’), ...

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Invitation: TIA User Forum 2011
July 2011, Siemens South Africa
Creating sustainable value through totally integrated automation. Siemens’ totally integrated automation (TIA) provides the decisive components needed to optimise your companywide processes. TIA offers ...

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