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Safety control systems conference
April 2006
Many industrial processes have the potential to harm people or the environment if something goes badly wrong. Every year, industry experiences catastrophic fires, explosions or toxic releases but it is ...

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Elquip Solutions to distribute Lamina Technologies
April 2006
Elquip Solutions, a leading importer and distributor of high-end automation products and capital equipment in South Africa, has announced that from March 2006 it will be the sole local distributor for ...

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Comtest celebrates one year
April 2006, Comtest
Comtest, sole authorised distributor of Fluke industrial and electrical test tools in southern Africa, recently celebrated its first birthday at the Midrand, Gauteng head offices, along with staff and ...

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Scada developer holds technology evenings
April 2006, Adroit Technologies
Going back as far as many in industry can remember, South Africa's supervisory control and data acquisition development house, Adroit Technologies has hosted a monthly technology evening in Johannesburg; ...

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Appointments
April 2006
Stephan Luyt has been appointed business development manager at Citect.    Hannes Ackermann has recently been appointed as business development manager at GE Industrial, GE Fanuc Automation in South Africa. ...

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Alpine Instruments receives SAB award
April 2006, Alpine Instruments
Alpine Instruments was recently awarded an SAB award for 'Providing the breweries with exceptional service and maintained high quality standards in supply of equipment backed up by hands-on service'. ...

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Citect 2006 International User Conference
April 2006
Citect, one of the world's largest, independent, realtime intelligence and industrial automation software companies will be bringing together the largest gathering of its customer base in 2006 for the ...

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VI pioneer marks milestones in 2006
April 2006
The year 2006 marks two major milestones for virtual instrumentation pioneer National Instruments, including its 30th year since inception and 20th year since the creation of NI LabVIEW, the company's ...

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Wonderware achieves SAP NetWeaver status
April 2006
Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems, has announced at the ARC 'Next Generation Manufacturing Forum' the achievement of 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver' certification status, a further step in aligning ...

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Vigilant Integration Partners (VIP) initiative launched
April 2006, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa Electric Corporation and its group companies have launched the Vigilant Integration Partners (VIP) Initiative, an open, non-exclusive, standard-based, and interoperability-driven partnership ...

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Rigorous implementation of 'lead-free' electrical laws
April 2006, Phoenix Contact
Big changes are coming on 1 July 2006 for electrical and electronics production. All member states are required to implement the new 'lead-free' EU directives by this date. Heavy metals used in device ...

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Launch of asset excellence initiative
April 2006
The launch of Yokogawa Electric's VigilantPlant asset excellence initiative is aimed to apply the Yokogawa VigilantPlant vision to plant asset management in order to achieve operational excellence and ...

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Passion drives business
April 2006, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Moving on Something of a sudden move to many - I will be leaving Technews Publishing shortly (officially at the end of May) - so my last contributions to SA Instrumentation and Control will likely be ...

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Photo IC replacement for photoconductive cells
22 March 2006, Hamamatsu Photonics UK, Opto-Electronics
Hamamatsu has released a new range of linear output photo-ICs to replace traditional photoconductive cells (also known as LDRs) which have for many years been used in visible light sensor products. As ...

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Hannover Messe 2006
March 2006
Hannover Messe 2006 embraces 10 leading international trade fairs

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Rockwell Automation balances neatly between politics and reality
March 2006, Rockwell Automation
One wonders what the Rockwell Automation management team was thinking when they invited Engler to address a large group of journalists (predominantly non-US) on one of his favourite subjects. If they were hoping that the governor would stir up some controversy and some thought-provoking discussions, then they certainly succeeded.

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OEE is worth the fuss
March 2006
OEE is a culmination of three factors: availability, performance and quality

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Throughput Technologies distributors for Phoenix Digital
March 2006, Throughput Technologies
Local industrial communications and networking company, Throughput Technologies, was recently appointed as the southern African distributor for Phoenix Digital Corporation. Phoenix Digital manufactures ...

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Indutronica appointed as Fuji Electric distributor
March 2006
Indutronica, a Cape Town-based industrial control system integration company, is expanding its products by the official appointment as Fuji Electric Factory Automation distributor. A comprehensive range ...

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Protea awarded Ashcroft agency
March 2006
Ashcroft has appointed Protea Automation Solutions as its distributor for southern Africa. Situated at Wynberg-Sandton, Protea Automation Solutions has experienced staff and a comprehensive stock holding ...

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