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Dual loop PLC controller
September 2000
The DLC is a dual loop controller that is designed as a building block for any multizone temperature or process control system. In a DIN-rail mounted package, the DLC provides all of the usual features ...

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Total networking of manufacturing-related processes is the way of the future
July 2000
E-control lays the foundation of e-manufacturing infrastructure for on-line business strategies where the integration of control with connectivity and information management facilitates the achievement ...

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Scada/PLC system reduces production stops at Mercedes Benz
July 2000
The main objective of the scada/PLC system was to monitor the movement of automotive parts, from the intake area all the way through to the storage and dispatch areas.

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Leader in electrical distribution supports South Africa's natural heritage
July 2000
Schneider Electric is involved in industrial development and a wide variety of projects and takes care to ensure that all their products and packaging are as environmentally friendly as possible.

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Universal I/O system for functionality without the programming nightmare
July 2000, Endress+Hauser South Africa
From the point of view of the process automation engineer, the ideal process measurement solution will facilitate a higher output with better quality and a higher output with better quality and at a competitive ...

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Realtime control solution combines CompactPCI with graphical programming language.
July 2000, Westplex
National Instruments now offers a new CompactPCI realtime control solution based on LabVIEW RT, the company's easy-to-use graphicalprogramming environment for development and deployment of embedded, realtime ...

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The world's biggest Profibus installation in process engineering
July 2000, ABB South Africa
   FDT in Practice At present, ABB are installing at BASF's site what is believed to be the biggest Profibus system ever used in the field of process engineering throughout the world. This challenging ...

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PLC-based system expansion in automobile assemply plant
July 2000
When vehicle engines arrive at an automobile assembly plant, production engineers test a statistical sample of their delivery as part of the quality control process. Engineers make many measurements on ...

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Compact PLCs with a variety of functions
July 2000
The Oron CPM2A and CPM2AC PLCs from Yelland Control may be small, but they provide many functions. These include programmable terminal connections (through a built-in RS232C port), positioning functions ...

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Stack lights now availiable with DeviceNet connectivity
July 2000, Rockwell Automation
As one of the broadest stack light product offerings in the industry, the addition of DeviceNet connectivity to the Bulletin 855T control tower stack lights expands device functionality and diagnostic ...

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Temperature process controller has easy-to-read graphics display
June 2000, Protea Automation Solutions
Overview The 2704 is a high accuracy, high stability temperature and process controller available in a single, dual or three-loop format. It has a bright 120 x 160 pixel dot matrix display on which all ...

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Temperature/process meters and controllers that change colour at any preset setpoint
June 2000
A range of temperature/process meters and controllers which change colour at any set point is available from OEN Enterprises. The Newport I series are user-friendly and easy to program with a 21 mm, nine ...

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Digital field-mounted controller
May 2000, Moore Process Controls
In the early days of process control, loop controllers had direct process inputs and pneumatic outputs and they were mounted close to the process. This provided the lowest installation cost and the greatest ...

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Totally intergrated automation- consistent to the end of spiralling costs in automation.
March 2000, Siemens South Africa
Totally integrated automation is the end of spiralling costs.

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PLC Direct outsources logistics
March 2000
PLC Direct has outsourced logistics to a Gauteng based company thus allowing them to concentrate on core business, which is the sales, and marketing of automation products to the industrial marketplace. ...

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Rockwell Automation - proven and reliable automation solutions here in africa
Feb 2000, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation is a $6,8 billion US-owned business with some 25 000 employees and 64 manufacturing facilities situated throughout the world. Other valuable facts are that the company has more than ...

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Soft PLCs - how they challenge traditional PLCs
Jan 2000
The US and Europe have been taken by storm by the latest PC-based control systems supported by Microsoft Windows. South Africa has only just started exploring this newest trend in process control with ...

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Bringing the shopfloor to management's floor
Jan 2000
In addition to the super small KV-10 - 80 Keyence range of PLCs, Varispeed's control division also supplies and supports the KV300 Series PLC. Despite its many incredibly powerful functions, this PLC ...

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PC-based control software for windows NT and CE
Jan 2000
Think & Do Software, a PC-based control software package for Windows NT and Windows CE, now supports Automationdirect.com's RUNtimePC, a Windows CE controller with a built-in 12,1" graphical ...

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CNC with Windows CE
Jan 2000
GE Fanuc now produces the new Series 160is/180is/210is CNC hardware which, as well as bringing the high reliability and greater breadth of use provided by the incorporation of Windows CE, offers much ...

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