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ISA Summit
April 2008
The ISA100 Wireless Solutions Summit will be held Sunday and Monday, 18–19 May 2008, at the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH. Attendees will be able to network with the most renowned ...

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Catch them young
April 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Before a school-going learner can aspire to a particular career and select an appropriate tertiary education path he or she needs to know that such a career exists. Youngsters of today become aware of ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Top companies and trends
April 2008
Top automation companies Working with ARC this year, CONTROL magazine has cleaned up the criteria for its list of 'Top-50 Automation Vendors'. Editor Walt Boyes of CONTROL, and Larry O’Brien of ARC - ...

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Shorrock and ifm split after three decades of success
April 2008
Shorrock Automation was established in South Africa in 1975 as a company specialising in process control and factory automation. It became the local representative of ifm electronic in 1978 and has distributed ...

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Life after technology
March 2008
By reducing all measurements to the common denominator of money, DPM prompts personnel to start thinking about the consequences of their actions and decisions; in this way they merge information with their IP and become valuable knowledge workers that think outside the box and are masters of their own processes.

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The economics of electricity
March 2008
It is understood that households directly (Eskom) and indirectly (redistributors) consume some 21% of total electricity sold

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Ride for the Automation Skills Development Initiative
March 2008
The event takes place over nine days starting on 28 March, in Knysna and finishes 950 km later at the Lourensford Wine Estate in Franschoek

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International news digest
March 2008
ABB won a $30-million contract from Emirates Aluminium Company (EMAL) to supply a 220 kV gas insulated substation, automation and protection systems for a new aluminium smelter near Abu Dhabi. The order ...

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Local news digest
March 2008
JSE-listed Infowave has merged with its black-owned and managed associate, Adapt-IT. InfoWave Holdings is acquiring the 67% of Adapt-IT which it does not already own in a share transaction worth approximately ...

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ifm electronic invests in SA
March 2008
ifm electronic, with its head office and production facilities based in Germany, has acquired Shorrock Automation’s local ifm division and will operate as ifm electronic SA. The new ifm electronic SA ...

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Microsep acquires Thornton agency
March 2008, Microsep
Microsep has extended its line of Mettler Toledo process analytics products to provide end users and system integrators with liquid analytical measurement solutions to control production processes. Microsep ...

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Vodacom embraces females in technology
March 2008
Vodacom’s annual Graduate Programme for Females in Technology (GPFT) has this year seen a record number of candidates, following on from the success of this programme in the last two years. The increase ...

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Adroit wows European audience
March 2008, Adroit Technologies
South African supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) developers, Adroit Technologies’ solutions focused software products were enthusiastically received at the SPS Automation show in Germany ...

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Motion Tronics is on a mission
March 2008, Motion Tronic
The Pinetown-based company has been accredited as the only official Baumuller authorised repair centre in South Africa. The facility is staffed by five highly qualified technicians with extensive knowledge ...

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ISA announces POWID Symposium dates
March 2008
ISA will host the 51st annual POWID symposium, and, in conjunction with EPRI, the 18th annual joint ISA POWID/EPRI controls and instrumentation conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, 8-13 June 2008. The ...

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Inspection of Marion Island project
March 2008
Consulting engineering and project management group, SSI – a DHV company, is poised to conduct its final inspection on the electrical and electronic systems at the newly constructed scientific research ...

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CBI-electric supplies distribution transformers
March 2008, CBI-electric: low voltage
CBI-electric Medium Voltage, the newly formed division of CBI-electric has signed two contracts with Rustenburg Local Municipality. The first contract is for the manufacture, supply, delivery, installation ...

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SKF celebrates 100 years of excellence
March 2008, SKF South Africa
SKF, renowned for expertise in bearing technology since 1907, has maintained a global leadership position through the decade. “Our vision is to equip the world with knowledge,” says SKF South Africa ...

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Certification for Bearing Man
March 2008, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG
The Bearing Man Group of Companies, South Africa’s leading specialists in bearings, seals, power transmission components, electric and geared motors and belting, as well as fasteners, was awarded ISO ...

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ISO releases CD-Rom
March 2008
ISO has just launched the new ISO Standards collection on CD-ROM – Materials for the production of primary aluminium. It contains the full collection of 108 ISO standards for materials used in the production ...

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