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New modular control architectures offer potential to increase end user value
April 2015
With few exceptions, control architecture has changed little over the past 40 years. However, advances in processing power, network technologies and software, will enable greater value for end users in ...

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Four-channel analog output module
April 2015
Jumo’s range of mTRON T measurement, control and automation systems now offer a new feature in the form of a four channel analog output. With its universal input/output modules and flexible connection ...

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Control loop: Case History 141 - Report after optimisation exercise - Part 2
April 2015, Michael Brown Control Engineering
The first part of a report, published in Case History 140 (February), showed successes obtained and problems uncovered in an optimisation exercise in a particular process plant that takes optimisation ...

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Becker Mining expands CAS capabilities
March 2015
Loco management system ensures operation of underground locomotives.

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Honeywell’s new alarm ­management technology
February 2015
Helping to make plants and pipelines safer and more productive.

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Pulse Control Systems: Aims to become the largest Siemens approved instrumentation partner
February 2015
Founded in 2011 by Nimelen Pillay, Pulse Control Systems is an independent market specialist, designing and supplying customised automated solutions to a number of industries including water and wastewater, ...

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Control loop: Case History 140 - Report after optimisation exercise
February 2015, Michael Brown Control Engineering
There is a particular continuous process plant in South Africa that takes base layer control loop optimisation extremely seriously. (Many other plants unfortunately do not, which to me is terribly sad.) ...

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Rockwell Automation delivers control solution at Impala
January 2015, Rockwell Automation
PlantPAx system extended to reduce refrigeration costs and improve efficiency.

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Force monitoring for manual presses
December 2014
German instrumentation specialist, Burster, has introduced its new ForceMaster 9110 to monitor both complex and simple manual press operations in manufacturing and assembly processes. The device monitors ...

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Afrilek: Engineering high controller availability at the train loading station of a manganese plant
December 2014, Afrilek Automation
This client’s core business is the mining and exporting of manganese ore by means of a truck and shovel open cast pit operation and materials handling and train loading systems. Afrilek was approached ...

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Andy Green’s supersonic office
December 2014
The jet engined Bloodhound is designed to set a 1000 mph land speed record.

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Pervasive sensing changes the fundamentals of automation
November 2014, Emerson Automation Solutions
Wireless technology coupled with a reduction in the cost of sensor technology is driving a new era in industrial automation.

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Rockwell Automation’s high-­pressure mist fire suppression
November 2014, Rockwell Automation
The Rockwell Automation installations of automation instrumentation for controlling conveyor belt speed and sequencing can include a fire suppression system in the form of a Fogtec high-pressure water ...

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Process Dynamics: Citect Scada used to manage South African wind farm
November 2014, Process Dynamics
Situated in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s first wind farms can produce up to 27 MW of power which is mostly utilised by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. When it came to finding a solution for controlling ...

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Hybrid Automation: Simplicity is the greatest sophistication pays dividends at Unilever
November 2014, Hybrid Automation
It is well known that a one size fits all approach does not work for most industrial systems, because it does not cater for the nuances of each and every business process or model. Since human error accounts ...

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Control loop: Case History 139 - The importance of measurements and dynamics.
November 2014, Michael Brown Control Engineering
One of the first laws of process control states that you cannot control what you cannot measure. However, although instrument practitioners all know this they very often forget it. I think this is largely ...

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PlantStruxure PES solution for Tshwane wastewater plant
October 2014
Artiflex Engineering and Schneider Electric help the metro to standardise its process control ­architecture.

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PlantStruxure PES shines at Xperience Efficiency
October 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric combines control applications, supervision and field devices under one ­integrated software platform.

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Omniflex replaces annunciator system for Shell
September 2014, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
When Shell Lubricants in the UK needed to replace an ageing process alarm system with SIL certified technology, it chose Omniflex to engineer a replacement solution based on the state-of-the-art Omni16R ...

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Control loop: Case History 138 - Bad actors.
September 2014, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Alarm management has become a subject of interest in many plants. With the advent of computerised control and HMI systems, it has become extremely easy to put alarms onto control loops. Nowadays operators ...

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