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Harnessing the ocean with wave energy
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2025, Electrical Power & Protection
Wave energy is emerging as one of the most promising yet underutilised renewable sources. Tapping into the rhythmic, predictable power of ocean waves, this technology offers a clean, reliable alternative to fossil fuels and a valuable complement to wind and solar energy.

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Leading the way to the all-electric mine
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2025, ABB South Africa, IT in Manufacturing
Decarbonising the mining sector requires more than just new technology. ABB eMine provides a strong portfolio of electrification and automation solutions, consulting, partnerships and technology applications to support mining operations to reduce emissions and achieve operational cost savings and superior efficiency.

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Speeding up warehouse automation
August 2025, Rockwell Automation, Motion Control & Drives
Bastian Solutions designs and delivers world-class material handling systems. The company was engaged by a high-end global fashion brand to implement a new warehouse system. Bastian used Rockwell Automation Emulate3D digital twin software to test the system before it was installed and went live.

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Next-generation homebuilding
August 2025, Beckhoff Automation, Motion Control & Drives
Promise Robotics, a Canadian startup is reinventing prefabrication. Advanced automation technology from Beckhoff and AI control a robotic solution for efficient prefabrication. As a result, onsite assembly becomes up to 70% faster.

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Redefining motion control with Festo’s vision for seamless and intelligent automation
August 2025, Festo South Africa, Motion Control & Drives
The quest for precision, flexibility and efficiency continues to shape the future of industrial automation, and Festo, as a long-standing leader in automation technology, stands firmly at the forefront of this movement, driving innovation and setting the benchmark for excellence.

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Enhancing cybersecurity for connected serial devices
July 2025, RJ Connect
Industrial network security is not a luxury option, it is a necessity. Moxa’s secure serial device servers and protocol gateways have helped our customers ramp up their connectivity security in a variety of industrial applications.

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STEMulator – a gift to the youth of the nation
July 2025, News
STEMulator is a groundbreaking virtual platform designed to ignite the spark of curiosity in young minds and stimulate their interest in STEM subjects.

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Innovate, accelerate, dominate
July 2025, Festo South Africa, Pneumatics & Hydraulics
Festo’s latest innovations, revealed through the Ramp Up Campaign, offer a blueprint for performance excellence, using the anatomy of a race car as an analogy to simplify and powerfully communicate how their technologies address industry challenges.

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Loop signature 29: Averaging or surge level control
July 2025, Flow Measurement & Control
There are many processes where it is undesirable for the load to suddenly change quickly, for example in the paper industry. Examples of level control have involved reasonably fast tuning. An example of a level loop tuned this way and responding to a step change in setpoint is given.

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Advanced telemetry solutions
July 2025, Interlynx-SA, Industrial Wireless
Namibia is one of the driest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with an average annual rainfall below 250 mm. To address this challenge, the Namibia Water Corporation has employed one of southern Africa’s most powerful and well-proven telemetry solutions, designed and manufactured by SSE/Interlynx-SA.

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Navigating the future of intralogistics
July 2025, LAPP Southern Africa
In the rapidly evolving landscape of global markets, the demand for agility, efficiency and scalability in intralogistics has never been more critical. At LAPP Southern Africa, we stand at the forefront of this transformation, offering cutting-edge connection solutions tailored to the dynamic needs of intralogistics.

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Cutting-edge robotics and smart manufacturing solutions
June 2025, Yaskawa Southern Africa
Yaskawa Southern Africa made a compelling impact at this year’s Africa Automation and Technology Fair.

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A cure for measurement headaches in contract manufacturing
June 2025, VEGA Controls SA
A contract manufacturing organisation provides support to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the manufacturing of medications, formulations and substances. VEGA’s measurement solutions offer accuracy and reliability for monitoring levels and pressures during the manufacturing process.

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PC-based control for a food capsule and pod packaging machine
September 2025, Beckhoff Automation, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
For TME, a machine builder specialising in the packaging of powdered foods, Beckhoff’s PC-based control technology offers unlimited opportunities when it comes to performance and innovative capacity in terms of flexibility, scalability and openness.

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Simple and efficient level measurement in the mining, minerals and metals industries
May 2025, Endress+Hauser South Africa, Level Measurement & Control
Measuring devices in the mining, minerals and metals industries face the challenge of varying material states and long distances in measurement height. Endress+Hauser’s answer to these challenges is the new Micropilot family.

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PC-based control for fertiliser
May 2025, Beckhoff Automation, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
On a farm in the USA, valuable ammonia is extracted from slurry and processed into ammonium sulphate. NSI Byosis has transformed this complex process into a flexible modular system. This modular approach requires an automation solution with flexible scalability in both hardware and software, which this Dutch company has found in PC-based control from Beckhoff.

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Loop signature 28: Things to consider when tuning.
May 2025, Michael Brown Control Engineering, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
I was giving a course at a remote mine in the middle of the Namibian desert. We were discussing tuning responses, and as I always do on my courses, I mentioned that in my opinion ¼ amplitude damped tuning is not desirable, and is in fact not good.

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Control without complexity
May 2025, Axiom Hydraulics, Motion Control & Drives
In an era where precision, performance and smart control define industrial success, the right driver can make all the difference. At Axiom Hydraulics, we’ve seen firsthand how the Sun Hydraulics XMD series transforms hydraulic systems, from mining and construction to agriculture and automation.

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The thermal combustion balancing act
April 2025
From carbon taxes to export tariffs, and cost containment to security of supply and sustainability, companies are under increasing pressure to switch to greener fuel sources. Associated Energy Services warns that this pivotal change has some potentially serious knock-on effects.

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What’s driving the IE3 motor revolution?
April 2025, WEG Africa
The International Efficiency 3 (IE3) motor standard will soon become South Africa’s legal minimum standard, mandating that local suppliers offer more efficient electric motors. What is driving this change, and how does it affect the many industries that rely on these modern electric workhorses?

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