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Siemens IoT2040 industrial intelligent gateway
Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things & Industry 4.0, RS South Africa
The Simatic IOT2040 is a first ‘open’ intelligent gateway that standardises communication between various data sources and then analyses and forwards it to the corresponding recipients. It is a solution ...

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Neural Compute Stick for deep-learning projects
Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things & Industry 4.0, RS South Africa
RS Components has introduced the Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS), the newest development tool for ultra-low-power deep-learning inference. The tool enables developers to develop and prototype ...

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Ultra-compact industrial PCs
June 2018, Beckhoff Automation
As machines and systems are becoming more modular and control cabinets smaller, the space requirements of control components are increasingly scrutinised. At the same time, evermore complex and sophisticated ...

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Industrial Edge adds cloud benefits at the field level
June 2018, Siemens South Africa
Siemens is introducing a digitalisation platform to the market in the form of Siemens Industrial Edge. This extends automation devices by providing data processing at machine level and by bringing highly ...

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AVEVA drives digital transformation
June 2018
The 2018 Wonderware X-Change conference created the opportunity to launch the new alliance between AVEVA and Schneider Electric. At the helm of AVEVA’s 26-strong contingent was vice president of strategic ...

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Siemens heightens industrial cyber security
June 2018, Siemens South Africa
Siemens presented a solution for detecting anomalies in industrial networks at Hannover Messe 2018. Industrial Anomaly Detection enables security-related incidents such as unauthorised intrusions and ...

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Plant performance data on a big screen
June 2018, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
Visualising plant performance data on a big screen for everybody to see has become a mandatory requirement in this age of management by KPIs, and encouraging performance driven objectives and motivation ...

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Rockwell software release optimises productivity and reduces design time
June 2018, Rockwell Automation
Engineers can design, build and commission automation systems more quickly, using the newly enhanced Rockwell Software Studio 5000 integrated development environment. This latest software release includes ...

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Yokogawa releases Plant Resource Manager R4.01
June 2018, Yokogawa South Africa
New maintenance and operations support function displays statistical information on the status of all plant devices.

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New app for drive systems
June 2018, Siemens South Africa
Siemens is launching a new app for drive systems in the field of motion control called Analyze MyDrives, and has also introduced Manage MyMachines/Remote, a new plug-in to upgrade its tried and tested ...

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Past, present, and future trends in EAM and CMMS
May 2018
This ARC View examines the recent past and current trends to assess what the future holds across seven aspects of EAM.

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Rockwell Automation ­simplifies operations
May 2018, Rockwell Automation
Plant personnel have the difficult task of monitoring and maintaining a growing number of IoT devices on their networks. Rather than using complex or unfamiliar IT tools to do this, they can now use the ...

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Emerson expands Plantweb digital ecosystem
May 2018, Emerson Automation Solutions
New mobility and decision-support technologies plus services for operations empower top quartile performance.

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Industrial control system cybersecurity
May 2018
Part 3: ICS environment hardening.

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Is industrial IT the next wave for Africa?
May 2018
Infrastructure projects, manufacturing and energy and resource companies may be facing some headwinds, but they are undeniably driving GDP growth and, as a result, are in the midst of a technological ...

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Evaluation of bearing arrangement with SKF SimPro Quick
May 2018, SKF South Africa
SKF SimPro Quick is a single-shaft bearing simulation tool that has been developed to evaluate the design of bearing arrangements and their field performance based on relevant application requirements ...

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Scalable computing delivers IIoT data
May 2018, Rockwell Automation
Industrial companies that want to use IIoT data to make better business decisions, must first make sure workers can access that data when and where they need it. New scalable compute offerings from Rockwell ...

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RS Components introduces solid-state drives from Samsung
May 2018, RS South Africa
RS Components has announced availability of the new SSD 860 range of solid-state drives (SSDs) from Samsung. Based on the manufacturer’s latest flash-memory technology, the range improves on Samsung’s ...

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Intelligent groundwater abstraction
May 2018, Phoenix Contact
WellControl is a configurable solution from Phoenix Contact that carries out all the necessary control and regulation tasks for groundwater wells. Guided parameterisation without any programming at all ...

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Using predictive analytics to improve planned maintenance
Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2018
Predictive analytics for planned maintenance is a technique that uses data to understand equipment degradation and predict failure.

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