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CBI-electric supplies distribution transformers
March 2008
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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Vepac changes ownership
March 2008, Vepac Electronics
Vepac Electronics has been acquired by the Electrocomp Group and Edwin Brown, effective from 1 February 2008. Current owner John Blackwell will be taking a well deserved retirement. Edwin, together with ...

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Junot Systems certifies Kepware
March 2008
Kepware Technologies has announced that its KEPServerEX product has been tested and approved by Junot Systems, a leading provider of embedded SAP integration solutions for the manufacturing and process ...

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Call for papers
March 2008
X-CHANGE 2008, Wonderware Southern Africa’s 16th User Group Conference, will be held from 20 to 23 April 2008 at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg. X-CHANGE has become the leading event ...

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Smitsvonk agency for OEN Enterprises
March 2008
Netherlands-based Smitsvonk, part of the Durag Group, specialises in ignition systems for industrial use in gas ignition burners, pilot flares, spark plugs and ignition lances. The systems are based on ...

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CHI Control focuses on Nkomati
March 2008
CHI Control Engineered Solutions has recently delivered and commissioned low voltage motor control centres (MCCs) for phase one of a project at the Nkomati Nickel Mine, valued at R3 million. The company ...

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DirectLogic awarded new dealership
March 2008, DirectLogic Automation
In a bid to supplement its current range of ICT solutions, DirectLogic Automation has secured a distribution agreement with Protech Systems. Established in 1980, Protech Systems specialises in the design ...

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Advances in energy harvesting technology
March 2008
The need to minimise maintenance and replacement costs of battery-powered applications is driving developments in energy harvesting technologies that bind renewable and ambient sources of energy. New ...

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Appointments
March 2008
Mango Mkhize has been appointed sales engineer at Shorrock Automation Westville branch in KwaZulu-Natal.       Michael Pitschlitz has been appointed managing director of the new ifm electronic SA.    Chris ...

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Allpronix inroduces Datexel
March 2008, Allpronix
Allpronix has announced that the company is now the official distributor for Datexel in South Africa. The product range has been expanded to include world class signal conditioners, loop isolators and ...

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A great innings and infrastructural investment
March 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
A hundred not out! In this month’s issue we publish Michael Brown’s one hundredth control loop case history. Mike began his new career in loop tuning and optimisation in 1989 when a friend of his, who ...

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The Jim Pinto Column: Pinto's 2008 prognostications
March 2008
More than ever before, the world seems to be on the verge of disaster. We are all surrounded by a cacophony of bad news and warnings. The continuing wars and terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, belligerent ...

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RoboCup soccer for 2010?
February 2008
The objectives of RoboCup are to promote education and research in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and related fields by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined

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International news digest
February 2008
ABB has won orders worth $440 million from the State Grid Corporation of China and other partners to provide new ultrahigh-voltage technology for the world's longest power transmission link. The power ...

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Local news digest
February 2008
ABB has won a $25-million order from Anglo Platinum for equipment and services to help more than double production at a processing plant in South Africa. ABB will deliver two gearless mill drive systems ...

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Citect celebrates Ampla
February 2008
Ampla is Citect's leading scalable manufacturing execution solution (MES) that allows key personnel to identify and act on opportunities, maximise overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and to correct ...

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EtherCAT accepted as IEC standard
February 2008, Beckhoff Automation
The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) announced that EtherCAT is now an official IEC standard. The IEC standards for EtherCAT - 61158, 61784-2 and 61800-7 unanimously passed in final voting. This is a ...

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