System Integration & Control Systems Design


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Yokogawa's building automation solution
July 2011, Yokogawa South Africa
Automated HVAC control systems are designed primarily to control equipment usage, exhaust of contaminants and manage scheduling. As buildings become more intelligent, it is becoming common to see these ...

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Control loop case history 119 - Tricky temperature control problems
July 2011, Michael Brown Control Engineering
The problem I was recently commissioned to investigate a heating problem by a client who tests ore samples by heating them to various temperatures. The heating rate is defined by either step changes ...

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Autotronix
June 2011, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Helping Rand Water control the pH at the Zuikerbosch Purification Station. Rand Water is the largest bulk water utility in Africa and one of the largest in the world, purifying and providing bulk potable ...

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Festo
June 2011, Festo South Africa
Removing the bottleneck with automated systems. When Pioneer Foods realised that the bottling plant where it packages the Marmite and Bovril spreads was running slower than expected, it was time to consider ...

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Automated paper reel handling
May 2011
Omron’s approach to safety integrates seamlessly at DS Smith Converters

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Cube Technologies
May 2011
Tangible increases in productivity and consistency of product at LACSA. A member of the Illovo Sugar Group, LACSA is a leading manufacturer of laxative ingredients for export and local consumption. As ...

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Hybrid Automation
May 2011, Hybrid Automation
Successful local technology deployment at Unilever results in adoption at facilities in Germany. Unilever is the manufacturer of Knorrox brand spices, stock cubes and soups in South Africa. During one ...

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Chenming Pulp and Paper improves quality
May 2011
Honeywell to provide integrated controls for major pulp facility in China. Honeywell is to supply the integrated control system for ZhanJiang Chenming Pulp and Paper Company’s new 700 000 ton per year ...

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Metso upgrade for Russian paper manufacturer
May 2011, Valmet South Africa, Flow Control , PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Mondi Syktyvkar is one of the largest producers in the Russian pulp and paper industry with one board machine and three paper machines. The mill also comprises a wood yard, two fibre lines, a power plant ...

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Control loop case history 118: ‘Naughty’ valves that cause cycling in automatic
May 2011, Michael Brown Control Engineering
The elements of a control loop normally consist of the process itself, the measuring transmitter, the controller and the final control element. The latter, in the vast majority of loops, consists of an ...

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Island View storage project
April 2011, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser’s latest Tankvision convert

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Abacus Automation
April 2011, Abacus Automation
Increasing the productivity of the Hulamin foil coater-slitter machine. Lack of versatility in operation led Hulamin, large-scale manufacturers of rolled and extruded aluminium products, to consider ...

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Altech Alcom Matomo
April 2011
A lack of a common integrated radio communications platform hampered the local authorities in Cape Town prior to 1996. “The need for a centralised communications infrastructure that linked all of the ...

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Control head from Bürkert Contromatic
1 April 2011, Bürkert South Africa
The 8681 control head from Bürkert Contromatic plays a central role in decentralised automation. It is universally adaptable, combining with all valve forms. It takes on complete pneumatic control, feedback, ...

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Boosting productivity on the line
March 2011
Machine vision technology for regulatory compliance

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Systems Anywhere - expert solutions for total systems integration
March 2011
In 1999 Andre Vuilleumier opened Systems Anywhere with a focus on flour milling and feed milling for the food and animal feeds industries. In 2001 the company extended its interest to mining companies ...

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Welkom Industrial Controls - hands-on involvement with client requirements
March 2011
Formed as Welkom Industrial Controls (WIC) in 1988, the company is not only a product and service solution provider but is also engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of process control ...

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Control loop case history 117
March 2011, Michael Brown Control Engineering
I was recently performing some optimisation at a large chemical plant and was reminded that during the daily hustle and bustle and general high pressure of an instrument and control practitioner, one ...

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PSY Systems - offering infinite solutions in IPC and BMS
February 2011, PSY International
In 2000 PSY Systems opened its doors in Johannesburg and immediately established a national footprint as a design house with a client base ranging from Cape Town to Pretoria. The company is a preferred ...

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Systems Automation and Management - selected client base enabled increased service capabilities
February 2011, SAM Systems Automation & Management
Systems Automation and Management (SAM) was founded in June 1988 and has grown to a complement of 60 people, comprising mostly technical and engineering staff with six administrative personnel and nine ...

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