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Improved mill operations
May 2010
Honeywell and BTG Instruments optimise fibre line control in pulp mills. Honeywell is collaborating with BTG Instruments, a leading supplier of high-quality instruments for the pulp and paper industry, ...

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Honeywell selected at Engen in Durban
April 2010
Process Stepper solution implemented in FCCU application revamp

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Control loop case history 111
April 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Surge level control. Recently a delegate on one of my courses who works in control on mining mineral processing plants related to me that he was doing some work on a mill sump level control and had found ...

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PlantWeb - solid, quantifiable results
February 2010, Automation Control Solutions, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Alpret Control Specialists – complete process control solutions

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Control loop case history 110
February 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Incorrect perceptions result in poor control. There is no doubt that one of the main reasons why the vast majority of regulatory control loops perform so badly is a general lack of understanding of the ...

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Just milking it
December 2009
ITmatic upgrades the facilities at Clover.

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Simatic S7 F expanded
December 2009, Siemens South Africa
New engineering functions simplify maintenance operations in the process industry. Siemens’ Industry Automation Division has equipped its Simatic S7 F systems engineering tool with new functions for ...

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Stringent requirements
April 2009
Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals improves batch automation with Experion PKS. Commencing operations in 1994, Orchid has emerged among the top 15 companies in the Indian pharmaceutical industry with ...

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PET bottle excellence
December 2008
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is an extremely popular packaging material. PET has become a widely used material in the food, chemical and perfume industries. Not only does it have excellent physical ...

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Blackouts - no thanks! Audio frequency ripple control
August 2008
B&R keeps the lights burning in Vienna. A total outage of Viennese power is very improbable for structural reasons, but even a failure that only affects the street lights would be bad enough. To keep ...

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XFC - an introduction: the new class of control performance
August 2008, Beckhoff Automation
With XFC (extreme fast control) technology Beckhoff presents a new, fast control solution: XFC is based on an optimised control and communication architecture comprising an advanced Industrial PC, ultra-fast ...

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Safety instrumented systems: shedding light on SIL
May 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Safety integrity is the likelihood of the safety function being performed satisfactorily when called upon to do so

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Integrated automation
May 2008
Complete machine automation using one intelligent tool to implement the entire automation system has long been the philosophy of the Austrian automation specialists at B&R. Total solutions provide enormous ...

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Integrating control and safety: where to draw the line
October 2007
Some of the reasons for the basic requirement that every layer of protection, including both control and safety, should be completely independent, are to avoid common cause faults, minimise systematic errors and provide security against unintentional access, sabotage and cyber-attacks

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Iritron integrates Indian concentrator
July 2007, Iritron
With more than 100 years of combined engineering experience in the fields of plant automation, simulation, optimisation and information systems in mineral processing and related industries, systems engineering ...

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Rockwell Automation white paper on IT and control engineering convergence
July 2007, Rockwell Automation
A new white paper from Rockwell Automation provides a revealing 'snapshot' of how manufacturers are beginning to bridge the historic divide between controls engineering and IT. The paper, based on interviews ...

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Painting by numbers at Toyota SA
June 2007
Wonderware was selected for various reasons, one of which was their comprehensive product offering capable of seamless integration with future applications

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Profiling Welkom Industrial Controls
June 2007
Formed as Welkom Industrial Controls in 1988, the business was registered as a proprietary limited company in 2000 in recognition of its growth. The company is a product and service solution provider ...

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Siemens launches Simatic PCS 7
June 2007, Siemens South Africa
At a breakfast held on 17 May 2007 at the Process Show exhibition in Nasrec, Johannesburg, Siemens officially launched the new Simatic PCS 7 Version 7 to key industry leaders in the process automation ...

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Advanced process control technology increases operator effectiveness
June 2007
Honeywell's recently released Profit Suite R300 is the latest version of the company's advanced process control technology for optimising operations and improving business results at processing plants. ...

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