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Intelligent and optimal control for optimising complex processes
July 2001
Worldwide the technology has been widely applied in other industries such as paper and pulp, food, and petrochemical

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BeST secures another Rockwell Automation/Unilever project
July 2001
BeST South Africa, a supplier of integrated and optimised control solutions, has recently secured a contract from Rockwell Automation, to engineer and commission a control and automation system for a ...

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Streamworks automates Inca Lime Mine
July 2001
Streamworks Group was recently selected to implement an automated control system for a new rotary kiln plant, which has been designed, manufactured and erected by Fer-Min-Ore at Inca. This new mine will ...

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Specialist System Engineering (SSE) Cape Town branch awarded telemetry contract
July 2001
SSE's Cape Town Branch established in April this year has got off to a flying start by being awarded the largest telemetry contract in the Western Cape to go out to tender for many years. SSE's Branch ...

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Leading the way in gold optimisation
July 2001
Svedala's Cisa division has recently been awarded a contract to install its OCS (optimising control system) to optimise the milling circuits at Gold Fields Kloof No. 1 Gold Plant in Westonaria. This brings ...

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The case of the mysterious cycle on a paper machine
July 2001
I, personally, find the control of paper machines extremely interesting. As in many other plants, we generally find the vast majority of the regulatory controls on the paper machines are working extremely ...

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Total production control system line-up for Windows 2000
June 2001
Yokogawa Electric recently launched the Centum CS3000 R3, a total production control systems line-up for medium and large-scale process manufacturing plants. The CS3000 R3, available since 22 January ...

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Solutions for safety and critical control
June 2001
Fault tolerance in the Tricon family produced by Triconex is achieved through a 'triple modular redundant' (TMR) architecture. The Tricon provides error-free, uninterrupted control in the presence of ...

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Open control system for PC-based systems
June 2001
The ADAM-5510 Series from Advantech is good for PC-based data acquisition and control applications. It is a compact, standalone controller with an Intel x86-based CPU running Datalight ROM-DOS. For professional ...

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Simplifying process industries automation system design
June 2001
Schneider Electric in South Africa now offers what it believes is a unique, object oriented software program that makes it easier, faster and less expensive to design and specify automation systems for ...

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New family of process control solutions
June 2001
The EurothermSuite comes out of the same stable as the Foxboro I/A system, ie Invensys, and is being supplied as a complementary offering to the Foxboro I/A system, providing even greater scalability ...

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User-defined integrated measurement systems
June 2001
National Instruments' measurement software and hardware enables the user to create their own integrated measurement systems. Using LabView, Measurement Studio or National Instruments other measurement ...

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Pulp and paper systems integration specialists
May 2001
Automation of the pulp and paper industry has now come to encompass all aspects of the business from operations right through to logistics, sales and commercial activities

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'Viewanyware' solutions from Rockwell Automation
May 2001, Rockwell Automation
The ViewAnyWare strategy maximises Rockwell Automation's expertise in Allen-Bradley electronic operator interface and industrialised PC hardware and Rockwell Software's supervisory control software

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SI wins Mauritian contract
May 2001
Set Point Turnkey Solutions (SPTS) has been awarded a R2,5 million contract by Degremont of Southern Africa for the water treatment plant at La Marie in Central Mauritius, part of the Mare Aux Vacoas ...

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Yelland Control appoints client integrators
May 2001
System Integrators Buhler and NC Automation, both based in Johannesburg, have recently been awarded client integrator certification from Yelland Control. Buhler specialises in the food and beverage, ...

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Keeping track of transport bins on a global scale
May 2001
It is vital in an industry as challenging as that of the highly perishable fruit export market to cut costs wherever possible, and one way of reducing capital outlay is to implement the use of collapsible ...

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Electrical contract successfully completed in Zimbabwe
May 2001
Electron has successfully completed an electrical turnkey contract, valued at R4,3m, for the Chitungwiza sewage treatment works located just outside of Harare. The project was financed and managed by ...

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Regulatory controls in most plants do not work properly
May 2001
As mentioned many times in previous articles, most people's perceptions are that the basic regulatory controls are operating reasonably well in their plants. Our experience has proved time and time again ...

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The wastewater treatment process
April 2001
WSP developed special algorithms for balancing tank control, aeration DO control and sludge age control in the bioreactor

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