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Honeywell facilitates emission compliance
February 2010
Honeywell has introduced a set of tailored solutions to help process manufacturers comply with a new federal regulation requiring facilities to track and report greenhouse gas emissions. With effect from ...

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Beckhoff receives Microsoft award
February 2010
For the second year in succession, PC-based automation supplier Beckhoff has received the Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award 2009 for its innovative and creative application of Windows Embedded ...

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NI to collaborate with DENSO
February 2010
National Instruments and DENSO Robotics have announced their collaboration to integrate NI measurement and vision technology with DENSO robotic arms. The collaboration increases productivity and performance ...

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GE and Fanuc complete JV dissolution
February 2010
GE and FANUC have announced that the two companies have completed their agreement to dissolve the GE Fanuc Automation Corporation joint venture. This agreement reverts the respective portions of the joint ...

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GE develops wearable RFID sensor
February 2010
GE Global Research has announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental ...

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Obituary - Paul Geng
February 2010, Adroit Technologies
It is with a very heavy heart that the Adroit Technologies family announces the loss of a dear friend and colleague, Paul Geng aged 39. Paul was killed in an aeroplane accident south of Johannesburg early ...

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CSIR breakthrough in laser technology
February 2010
CSIR scientists have made a breakthrough in the design of laser resonators resulting in a technology that is set to revolutionise the laser industry. Chief scientist Dr Andrew Forbes of the CSIR National ...

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ApplyIT celebrates 10 years
February 2010
ApplyIT celebrated a decade of providing world-class software to the mining and process manufacturing industries at a stylish cocktail party held in the Weaver Function Centre in November 2009. The company ...

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Schneider Electric debates in Copenhagen
February 2010, Schneider Electric South Africa
Top executives from Schneider Electric will attend Copenhagen during the UN Climate Change Conference, encouraging public debate from a perspective of unique competencies and innovative architectural ...

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Endress+Hauser provides at Christmas
February 2010, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Year end for the Endress+Hauser staff was not only a time to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary, but also a time to give to the needy. In these tough economic times, the staff felt that it would ...

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Iritron replacement at Rosh Pinah
February 2010, Iritron
Rosh Pinah is a small Namibian mining town located some 100 km inland from the Orange River mouth. After having been in operation for over 40 years, the zinc and lead floatation units of the mine were ...

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SAPICS joins MIT research project
February 2010
In an exciting development for the South African supply chain and operations profession, SAPICS (The Association for Operations Management of Southern Africa) has been invited to participate in a global ...

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On the move
February 2010, Comtest, Allpronix
Allpronix has relocated to its new premises in Randpark Ridge. The physical address and contact details are as follows: Unit 6, Gardens Business Park, Ateljee Street, Randpark Ridge 2169, Gauteng, South ...

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Appointments
February 2010
Endress+Hauser has appointed Ralf Paro as projects proposal engineer and Leon Aboud as field service technician.       Bosch Projects has appointed Andy Church as business manager, agriculture, Deric Dignon ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: GE eyes Rockwell, others get the grid
February 2010
The recent termination of the GE-Fanuc joint venture was the sign that GE would either get in, or get out of automation. I mentioned in a previous column that this would take a few months of deliberation ...

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ARC news
February 2010
The automation systems market for discrete industries started to slow down rapidly with the economic trouble alarms that started sounding in the US at the end of 2007. The manufacturing sector, initially ...

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Will robots colonise the stars?
February 2010, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Cambridge University’s Professor Stephen Hawking postulates in his ‘Life in the Universe’ lecture ( http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65) that human beings have entered ...

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Emerson partners with Meridium
22 January 2010
Emerson’s partnership with Meridium combines the power of two leading providers of asset management solutions to help users achieve greater plant availability and asset performance

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Wonderware monitors Canada’s nukes
22 January 2010
Bruce Power has selected Wonderware software solutions to help manage its equipment condition and performance monitoring project

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SA valves market to grow
22 January 2010
Leading companies within the petrochemicals industry in South Africa are continuing to implement planned capital expenditure projects

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