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Siemens assists at Pretoria technical school
February 2011, Siemens South Africa
Two new adjustable field photoelectric sensors from Banner Engineering provide reliable object detection in a wide range of manufacturing, packaging and material handling applications. The World-Beam ...

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Appointments
February 2011
Honeywell has appointed Neil Stander as its new regional sales manager.       ACDC Dynamics has appointed Mark Jenkins as general manager.    Honeywell has appointed Mohammed Sali-Ameen as field services ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Future workforces and personal robots
February 2011
Crowd-sourcing In the post-industrial economy, the way jobs are distributed is changing completely. Factory-based and central-office jobs are steadily declining. The old, punch-the-time-clock type of ...

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Replicating human vision in robots
February 2011
Synthetic vision system for recognising objects in real-time. With the advances in robotics, a robotic vision system that performs the operations of a human eye can complement the artificial intelligence ...

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Rockwell Automation reports good results
21 January 2011
Sales for the full fiscal year were up 12% compared to fiscal 2009

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Obituary - David Hughes
21 January 2011
Known in the industry as ‘Mr Cutler-Hammer’, he established the engineering division at CHI Control that made the company a market leader for the supply of panel building solutions. The staff and directors ...

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Careers for tomorrow
January 2012
Events management company élancommunications recently launched the myTomorrow Careers Exhibition which is to be held at venues across the country in 2012. The intention is to make young people aware ...

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The next big thing is really small
January 2011
Nanotechnology is designing motors at the molecular level

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Rockwell Automation Fair 2010
January 2011, Rockwell Automation
Held in Orlando, Florida, this year’s annual Rockwell Automation Fair proved to be a smoothly organised and well attended event. Courtesy of Rockwell Automation, South African Instrumentation and Control ...

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Lapp Group helps rescue Chilean miners
January 2011, LAPP Southern Africa
The world sighed with relief as 33 miners were rescued alive form the San José mine in Chile after being trapped underground for 70 days. Few people were aware of the fact that a cable from the Lapp Group ...

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Schneider Electric supports the school children
January 2011, Schneider Electric South Africa
An academic support programme for youths attending township schools, IkamvaYouth Gauteng, which operates in Ivory Park and offers Saturday supplementary tutoring, Tuesday and Thursday homework sessions, ...

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OSIsoft PI users regional seminar 2011
January 2011
The OSIsoft Regional Seminar 2011 will take place at the Melrose Arch Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg on 24 February. It will be a unique opportunity to meet PI System experts and advanced users in person. ...

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Emerson boosts production in Argentina
January 2011, Emerson Automation Solutions
Emerson Process Management’s Smart Wireless technology, based on the IEC 62591 (WirelessHART) standard, is enabling Tecpetrol to boost production while reducing maintenance and operations costs at natural ...

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Honeywell enhances flexible gauge safety
January 2011
Honeywell has announced that its FlexLine level gauges have been approved by the TÜV for use in Safety Integrity Level-2 (SIL-2) rated loops, allowing industrial facilities to use the devices in applications ...

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Diesel Electric Services achieves APC Elite Partner status
January 2011
APC by Schneider Electric has announced that Diesel Electric Services, providers of turnkey solutions in power, racking and cooling, has been named an APC Elite Partner. APC’s Elite Partner programme ...

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Cyber Junkyard 2011
January 2011, Siemens South Africa
Siemens, in partnership with Lapp Kabel and Festo launched the 2011 Cyber Junkyard competition during November 2010. The competition is an annual inter-tertiary event where teams from organisations and ...

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Becker Mining to supply Emis transformers
January 2011
Becker Mining Africa has extended its range to include Emis transformers and switchgear, designed for the distribution of electrical power, energy co-generation, rectification and traction. “Emis compact ...

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Prof Nico Beute receives SAEE honour
January 2011
Professor Nico Beute of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, well-known in the industry for his enthusiastic devotion to energy, was inducted into the Southern African Association for Energy Efficiency’s ...

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Honeywell sees attendance rise
January 2011
Honeywell recorded a 40% rise in attendance over the previous year at its 2010 EMEA Users Group Conference with the theme ‘Dynamic solutions – endless possibilities’. In total, more than 800 attendees ...

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ABB commissions Caprivi link
January 2011
ABB has commissioned the Caprivi link interconnector built for Namibia’s national power utility, NamPower. The high voltage transmission system connects the electrical grids in Namibia and neighbouring ...

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