What is MESA and why should you care? September 2015, MESA Africa NPC, News MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) International is a global community of manufacturers, producers, industry leaders, and solution providers who are focused on driving business results ...
Ensuring the safety and security of industrial control systems September 2015, IT in Manufacturing Process safety and cyber security are distinctly different disciplines, but there is growing realisation that they are related.
Specifically, today’s industrial organisations face the common imperative ...
Nick Denbow's European report: Drones for remote inspection August 2015, News The first serious use of a helicopter drone for inspection duties on a petrochemical plant in the UK was reported around five years ago, from Cyberhawk, based in Edinburgh, and initially focused on the ...
SAIMC: From the President's desk August 2015, SAIMC, SAIMC At the time of writing this letter, I had just returned from a trip to Japan and Hong Kong for both business and a bit of a holiday. The experience can only be described as mindboggling. Within Japan, ...
A comet chaser stirs August 2015, Horne Technologies Drive systems from Faulhaber defy the harsh conditions of a 10-year journey through the vacuum and low temperatures of space.
Where to industrial wireless? Technews Industry Guide - Wireless 2015, Industrial Wireless Industrial wireless communications for sensor data and plant information is now available, proven on-site, and built into internationally accepted standards.
Big data analytics improve manufacturing performance July 2015, IT in Manufacturing The theme of the recent 2015 ARC European Forum in Amsterdam, 'The Information Driven Enterprise in a Connected World', was intended to help develop some clarity over emerging related concepts such as ...
SAIMC: From the President’s desk July 2015, SAIMC, SAIMC More exciting developments within the SAIMC
We are firmly in the grasp of winter and my wardrobe has had a few timely additions over the past few weeks. Fortunately we still have plenty of sunshine ...
Control loop: Case History 142 - Report after optimisation exercise – Part 3. June 2015, Michael Brown Control Engineering, System Integration & Control Systems Design This is the third article taken from a report which was prepared for various departments in a process company after some optimisation work was performed for them. (The other two articles were published ...
Reliability Centred Maintenance Technews Industry Guide - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), Maintenance, Test & Measurement, Calibration Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Asset Management, Asset Integrity, Asset Optimisation, Overall Equipment Effectiveness and a whole alphabet soup of TLAs and FLAs are enough to give any engineer a serious headache.
Nick Denbow’s European report: Laser spectroscopy – a new plant tool? May 2015, News For most of the last century, optical techniques were not treated as suitable for any serious instrumentation on process plants. There were some turbidity sensors used for floc blanket monitoring on water ...
Foreword: Reduce downtime – improve performance Technews Industry Guide - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The demand made of every plant manager and maintenance engineer in the current industrial climate is to reduce unscheduled plant downtime, extend the intervals between scheduled outages, and make the ...
Nick Denbow’s European report: Power and water for the developing world May 2016, News Some of the products created for the consumers in the developed world have had perhaps surprising benefits in the less well-developed countries too. One example has been the use of mobile phones throughout ...
Trends in asset management and maintenance November 2014, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), Maintenance, Test & Measurement, Calibration In this article we take a look at exciting developments in asset management, maintenance and the drive toward greater operational efficiency and profitability in process and manufacturing plants and utilities.
