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From the editor's desk: Metrics that matter
April 2012, Technews Publishing
In a recent blog post, Automation World editor in chief, Gary Mintchell, commented on the relevance of findings in the contemporary report ‘Pursuit of performance excellence: business success through ...

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Wika acquires Scandura
March 2012, WIKA Instruments
The acquisition of Scandura has taken WIKA a step further towards strengthening its leading role in the field of calibration technology. Scandura, founded in Italy in the 1950s, established itself internationally ...

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Metso to supply largest recovered fuel fired boiler
March 2012, Valmet South Africa, Flow Control
Metso is to supply Mälarenergi’s combined heat and power plant (CHP) in Sweden with the world’s largest recovered fuel fired boiler. The new boiler with a fuel input of 167 MW will utilise circulating ...

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SKF supplier to Parisian electric car project
March 2012, SKF South Africa
SKF has announced that it has supplied advanced technological products and solutions to the Bolloré Group for use in their innovative electric cars, part of the Autolib car sharing programme to be launched ...

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Victory for RS sponsored solar car
March 2012, RS South Africa
RS Components recently supported the solar car team from Japan’s Tokai University, who participated in the World Solar Challenge – a car race held in Australia last year. The race car used HIT solar cells ...

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Adroit Technologies now authorised distributor of Mitsubishi Electric
March 2012, Adroit Technologies
Adroit Technologies has been appointed as an authorised distributor for sub-Saharan Africa of the Mitsubishi Electric range of automation products. The product range includes programmable logic controllers ...

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Ana-Digi to bulk ship VSD drives
March 2012
Ana-Digi is now bulk shipping its variable speed drives products in order to keep up with the demand from distribution and integration partners. “This is principally for LS Industrial Systems VSDs, but ...

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Craigcor Distribution has relocated
March 2012, Craigcor Distribution
CraigCor Distribution has relocated to 234 Albert Amon Road, Meadowdale, Gauteng. The new facilities, situated along the R24 between the N3 and R21, include a warehouse, dedicated product display area, ...

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Rockwell Automation in contact across borders
March 2012, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation hosted successful two-day technology updates in neighbouring Botswana and Namibia focused primarily on the water, wastewater and mining industries. Following on the success of the ...

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Invensys expands virtualisation technology for high availability and disaster recovery
March 2012
Invensys Operations Management has expanded its certification for virtualisation technology to include high availability, disaster recovery and fault tolerance in supervisory control applications, leveraging ...

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AC/DC Dynamics starts apprenticeship programme
March 2012
January 2012 sees the introduction of an apprenticeship programme at AC/DC Dynamics in Edenvale. The picture shows the 22 apprentices in the class of 2012, along with their manager Brian Pillay, at the ...

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Registration open for Emerson's Global Users Exchange in Europe
March 2012, Emerson Automation Solutions
Online registration is now open for Emerson’s first Global Users Exchange in Europe (www.emersonexchange.org/emea). The three-day event, aimed at existing and potential users of Emerson Process Management ...

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The path to permanent enterprise efficiency
March 2012, Schneider Electric South Africa
As the global community unites to fix the emission mistakes of the last 50, Schneider Electric South Africa has a clear view of the energy challenge. “We need new solutions, new thinking and new companies ...

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Instrotech to represent BeanAir
March 2012, Instrotech
French wireless sensor networks company, BeanAir, is now represented locally by Instrotech. BeanAir’s technology is based on IEEE 802.15.4 and GSM/GPRS wireless protocol and is present on advanced WSN ...

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Vega hosts technology morning
March 2012, VEGA Controls SA
Representatives from industries across the manufacturing and production spectrum were able to experience Vega’s technology first hand at a recent product training morning held at the Roodepoort Country ...

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Chevron Refinery upgrade by sera DoseTech
March 2012
sera DoseTech South Africa was recently selected as the chemical dosing pump supplier for Cape Town’s Chevron Refinery demineralisation boiler feed water plant upgrade. The demineralisation process requires ...

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Honeywell introduces comprehensive control solution
March 2012, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Tightening capital budgets and the need to maximise revenue are driving the process industries towards unified controller platforms for automating plant operations. Not only does a unified platform ensure ...

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Industrial automation conference - Johannesburg 22-24 May
March 2012
IDC Technologies has selected an outstanding line-up of speakers for the Industrial Automation Conference 2012 to be held in Johannesburg on 22, 23 and 24 May. All of the speakers will be using practical ...

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Appointments
March 2012
AC/DC Dynamics has appointed Quintin Tesselaar as Gewiss product specialist.       APC by Schneider Electric has appointed Lucian Reynard as industry account manager for South Africa.    Raegan Ramsunder ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Control 2010 Top 50 - Pinto summary
March 2012
Once again Control magazine has done a great job on its published list of Top-50 Automation & Control suppliers – with separate rankings for global and N. America. I provide a review and brief analysis ...

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