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New industrial IT system launched
June 2005, ABB South Africa
ABB South Africa, part of the leading power and automation technology group, recently announced the launch of the new release of its Industrial IT Extended Automation System 800xA. "The new functional ...

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Data management in the automotive industry
May 2005, SAM Systems Automation & Management
The new data management system is user-friendly and does not require any special system expertise

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Minimising downtime at a chrome furnace
May 2005
When one is faced with the task of improving and optimising the production of a chrome furnace, it is rarely to be achieved by looking for areas that may be improved in the PLC network and scada software ...

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Second Kroondal contract for B&W
May 2005
B&W Instrumentation and Electrical is on schedule to complete its second major contract within two years at AQP (SA)'s Kroondal Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, this time at the mine's new UG2 concentrator. ...

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SIs respond to invitation from automation software giant
May 2005
Invensys/Wonderware reports that its introduction of the ArchestrA industrial framework and its Industrial Application Server (IAS) in January 2003 had a profound effect on the industrial automation industry. ...

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HMI becoming the key to integrated automation
May 2005
Circuit Breaker Industries (CBI) has launched the E1000 series of operator terminals. Boasting the latest in ergonomic design, flexibility, performance, hardware and software, the series is believed to ...

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Combining automation with communication
May 2005
CBI has launched MX4, a powerful, scaleable solution that addresses today's trend towards seamless integration by successfully combining industrial automation with communications technology. Mitsubishi ...

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Release 3.06 of production control system
April 2005, Yokogawa South Africa
Release 3.06 of the CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System features improved integration with safety systems and other production control systems

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Cost and energy savings for Assmang
January 2005, Rockwell Automation
The Maximum Demand and Energy Management system is structured around an Allen Bradley ControlLogix 55L63 ControlLogix PLC (programmable logic controller) system combined with state-of-the-art Allen Bradley Power Monitor 3000 units

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Value-added automation solutions
December 2004, Products & Solutions
AMR Automations is a software engineering company specialising in the development of value-added automation solutions for the pharmaceutical, storage and warehousing, materials handling, food and beverage ...

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Integrated production control system
December 2004, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Release 3.05, an upgraded version of its flagship integrated production control system featuring enhanced functionality, including remote ...

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Poor control performance is a worldwide phenomenon
December 2004, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Based on my experience in every one of the several hundred plants where I have performed optimisation, less than 5% of all loops in automatic operate at all effectively. ...

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Enhanced optical transceiver for automotive applications
6 October 2004, Electrocomp, Opto-Electronics
A new fibre-optics transceiver from Infineon Technologies comes in a new modified low-cost cavity as interface (CAI) package and complies with the latest media oriented systems transport (MOST) PHY 1.1 ...

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Speeding up implementation and maintenance of automation
October 2004, Rockwell Automation
FactoryTalk is a scalable information platform that integrates plant-wide control systems and connects the enterprise with the production facility

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Industrial router aids remote commissioning in Kenya
October 2004, Throughput Technologies, Information Security
Gauteng-based systems integrators, RAM-TEC Systems, recently purchased a Westermo ED-20 Industrial Router from Throughput Technologies. The purpose of this router is to allow them to establish, via a ...

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Networking with the hearing impaired
September 2004, Adroit Technologies
The Adroit scada is configured to accept all alarm conditions and part of this is that the alarming functionality is used to monitor the doors of the facility

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Savings with soft starter retrofit
September 2004, ATI Systems
The ability to replace a five stage, 90 kW slip ring motor starter system with a Fairford QFE soft starter has enabled one of Europe's largest processors of mineral-based products to update a Lopulco ...

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Automation in the home
September 2004, Retail (Industry)
Advantech has produced hardware in answer to the booming 'eHome' market. The new EH-7105G residential terminal is designed to be an application ready platform that allows system integrators to ...

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Filling 500 toothpaste tubes per minute
August 2004, Varispeed (A Division of Hudaco Trading)
The new Norden Pac tube filler, the NM/NP 50025, is a 3rd generation machine - 3G

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Altech Informatics to automate new super alloy plant
August 2004, Infrastructure, Security Services & Risk Management
Avmin Alloys (Avalloy), a division of African Rainbow Minerals (ex: Avmin), has awarded a contract for the automation of its new alloy plant to Altech Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of the multibillion ...

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