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SSE completing large telemetry project
August 2003
Tshwane Metro makes extensive use of the features of the SSE telemetry equipment

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APV wins award for Appletiser's plant upgrade
August 2003
The Juice Preparation Plant at Appletiser used to be a complex system of rubber hoses, mobile pumps and buckets where a team of talented artisans practised the 'art of juice making'. The challenge facing ...

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Large power station in Australia chooses an ICMS
July 2003, Yokogawa South Africa
This is the first contract awarded directly by Eraring Energy to Yokogawa to supply a distributed control system (DCS)

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Implats saved R1,5 million using expert system for mill control
July 2003
Expert systems are computer programmes that bring together the process knowledge and rules employed by the control room operators allowing continuous monitoring of the process, applying logic in a consistent manner, and allowing the process to be operated in a way that ensures consistent production of on-spec products in a desirable way

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Blackrock underground batching automation completed
July 2003
Systems integration specialist, Associated Systems, recently completed the automation of the underground batching process at Assmang Blackrock mine, near Kuruman in the Northern Cape. The contract involved ...

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Tricky pressure control in a distillation column
July 2003, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Pressure has a major effect on the separation and cut in a distillation column, and column stability can be dramatically hampered if there is poor pressure control. One of the most common ways of controlling ...

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Virtual instrument pioneer aids control system design
June 2003
LabVIEW 7 has made it easier and more cost effective to build distributed systems with the introduction of Express VIs, additions to the LabVIEW DSC and realtime modules, and more visually intuitive block diagrams

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The amazing problem-free plant
June 2003, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Just before starting on this piece, I read a fascinating article by a valve manufacturer in the April issue of SA Instrumentation & Control, which mentioned a case where a relatively small 1,4% improvement ...

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Consistency management concept in papermaking
May 2003
Improved consistency control can save a lot in raw material cost, as well as greater machine efficiency

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Who is afraid of control in the field? Conclusion - where control in the field makes sense
May 2003, Endress+Hauser South Africa
From the technical point of view, there is no longer a need for a centralised control room

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Good facilities management enables effective action in a crisis
May 2003
Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) is a platform that integrates all core building systems and subsystems, including security, digital video surveillance, access control, life safety, heating, ventilation and airconditioning

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System integrators required for new vision system
May 2003, Turck Banner Southern Africa
RET Automation Controls is looking for system integrators countrywide with experience in vision systems, to be appointed as official distributors of Banner's new full-function vision sensors. Released ...

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Substation monitoring made easy
May 2003
Spectrum Communications recently completed a turnkey monitoring project for one of the large electricity users in the Western Cape comprising of nine substations (11 KV) and scada central station. The ...

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Ethernet and Profibus in a potassium mine
May 2003
It is believed that the potassium deposits in Germany were formed more than 200 million years ago. Today, these deposits, lying deep under the surface, provide an important natural product: mineral salt. ...

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Keops Altech walks away with the laurels at Wonderware X-Change 2003 Conference
May 2003
April 2003 - Keops Altech, a member of the multibillion rand JSE Securities Exchange-listed Altech group of companies, was appointed as Top Wonderware Systems Integrator - and also won the award for the ...

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IP connectivity offers flexible and efficient data access
May 2003
Trinity Telecomms is offering Wavecom's IP wireless solution for connectivity to the Internet. This allows efficient solutions for data retrieval, update and monitoring. Data transfer can be performed ...

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Rationality in machine automation
April 2003
Gefran offers the machine manufacturer and OEM a complete range - MMI, intelligent control via modular PLCs, intelligent switching devices in the panel and a line-up of sensors, which include load cells, pressure transmitters, potentiometric devices and temperature sensing all working as one high-performance system

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Flow loops behaving badly: case history 70
April 2003, Michael Brown Control Engineering
I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that flow loops are very simple things, that they are easy to tune, that you do not need a tuning package to tune them, that they can be tuned ...

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Maximising grinding mill efficiency with neural networks - Part II
March 2003
The flexibility of SmartGrind's smart modules allows the user to customise the application to address their individual needs of the mill

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Profibus fibre-optic transceiver
March 2003
The ERbic Profibus fibre-optic transceiver converts the electrical signals of the Profibus interface into optical signals. Data transmission is effected bi-directionally, with data transparency in half-duplex ...

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