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Safety first for woman at TGL
May 2010
Mining and construction are both worlds that are traditionally male-dominated, yet a female SHEQ officer at Thuthuka Group Limited (TGL) is overseeing one of the most important jobs on site at one of ...

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Switch on with Elquip
May 2010
Elquip Solutions has announced that it will be distributing UK-based Flexicon’s easy fit time delay switches in South Africa. “These switches are used in simple lighting and power control applications,” ...

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NI's online measurement guide
May 2010
The National Instruments ‘How-To Guide for Most Common Measurements’ is a centralised resource portal for obtaining information about making common sensor and signal measurements. Each of the featured ...

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Mexel Energy launches in South Africa
May 2010
Mexel Energy, based in Pretoria, has entered the South African market. The company’s focus is energy efficiency where, as renewable energy consultants and project developers, it is able to offer environmentally ...

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SKF restructures to meet customer demands
May 2010, SKF South Africa
In 2008, SKF South Africa took a strategic decision to restructure its retail network in line with the SKF Group strategy to serve its industrial customers through independent industrial distributors. ...

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FDT certification for Endress+Hauser's Fieldcare
May 2010, Endress+Hauser South Africa, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Essential to all open standards is the testing and certification of conformity. FieldCare, Endress+Hauser’s Plant Asset Management tool, is the first FDT frame to pass the FDT Group’s conformance test. Field ...

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Bearing Man acquisition
May 2010, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG
BMG – Bearing Man Group – has concluded a sale of share agreement for the purchase of 70% of the shares of Wegezi Power Holdings. The company’s management team will retain the balance of the shares. Companies ...

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ABB wins power order in Ghana
May 2010, ABB South Africa
ABB has won an order worth over $13 million from the Volta River Authority in Ghana to supply equipment to improve the management and control of the country’s national power transmission network. Working ...

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Honeywell's regional growth plans
May 2010
Honeywell chairman Dave Cote visited South Africa recently to discuss regional growth plans and strategic direction with the company’s South African leadership team. He also met with customers from the ...

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ISO certification for Thuthuka
May 2010
Gauteng-based multidisciplinary engineering firm Thuthuka Group has implemented the ISO 9001 quality management system across a specified range of its services. This also consolidates similar quality ...

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GEMÜ appoints regional distributorships
May 2010, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
GEMÜ Africa, the South African arm of German-based GEMÜ Valves, has announced the establishment of three regional distributors in KwaZulu-Natal, Port Elizabeth and East London. GEMÜ Africa’s branch manager ...

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Siemens - 150 years of business in South Africa
May 2010, Siemens South Africa
It is set to be an action packed year for Siemens South Africa. For a company that prides itself on the sustainability of its business, the celebration of its 150 years in South Africa is a milestone. ...

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Appointments
May 2010
Ana-Digi Systems has appointed Freddie Gonsalves as manager of its Johannesburg branch.    Hybrid Automation, a Siemens Approved System Integrator and Process Instrumentation Partner, has appointed Nimelen ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Pinto prognostications - global financial futures
May 2010
Following the trillion-$ ‘stimulus’, the big banks are doing well again, and the stock market appears to be inching up. But, in my opinion, the fundamentals have NOT been corrected and more financial ...

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ARC news
May 2010
The manufacturing recovery has begun but is it sustainable? Automation supplier revenues continued to fall throughout 2009 as compared to 2008. ARC expects that year-on-year comparisons between 2008 ...

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Travel and money
May 2010, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
At the time that this issue is going to print, SA Instrumentation & Control’s editor Steven Meyer is accompanying Endress+Hauser’s 'Interkama Tour' to Hannover Fair 2010. Steven reports that the tour ...

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Beget signs exclusive finger vein ID agreement
14 April 2010
Biovein verifies identities by capturing images of the vein patterns inside a finger by passing a near-infrared light through the finger to record the image on a CCD camera

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Good results from ABB
April 2010
ABB reported earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of almost $800 million in the fourth quarter, despite approximately $350 million in restructuring-related charges. Full-year profitability was well ...

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Honeywell supports unified standards
April 2010, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Honeywell has announced that it has joined the EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) and will support efforts to develop a single, unified standard for integrating field devices with industrial facility control ...

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Born to be electric
April 2010
South Africans visiting the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland next month can look forward to seeing their very own all-electric car – Joule – proudly showcased at one of Europe’s most important automotive ...

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