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Creating a smart building
1 April 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa
Buildings are one of the world's largest energy consumers, being responsible for 40% of the world’s annual energy consumption.       A technological showcase Schneider Electric has a complete range of ...

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Virtual environment adds flexibility at Grootegeluk
March 2014
Background Exxaro has five main strategic objectives and one of these is ensuring the company’s sustainability. One of the components of sustainability is to ensure that the correct infrastructure is ...

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Turck’s high performance ultrasonic sensors
March 2014, Turck Banner Southern Africa
A new ultrasonic sensor series with short blind zones, large measuring ranges and a wide range of parameter options.

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New RFID system from ifm electronic
March 2014, ifm - South Africa
Product tracking is an important issue for manufacturers, logisticians and retailers, and the new variant of the DTE800 series UHF RFID system from ifm electronic has been well received. Operating on ...

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Hirschmann’s Industrial HiVision NMS
March 2014
Industrial network management software improves uptime and productivity.

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StruxureWare for Mining, Minerals and Metals
March 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric introduces the newest innovation to its StruxureWare platform.

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Providing secure access to ­manufacturing data
March 2014, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA)
Protecting the networks in industrial operations through a defence-in-depth security approach.

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SNMP on network computers
February 2014, RJ Connect
Gain cross-platform efficiency for monitoring and control.

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Real-time analytics for industrial batch ­processes
February 2014
Companies that utilise batch manufacturing processes for specialty chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals, biotech products and other products can utilise data that is already being collected to make real-time ...

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Revolutionary changes to process information intelligence
February 2014, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released FAST/TOOLS R10.0, the latest version of a web-based real-time operations management and visualisation software package that brings revolutionary changes to real-time process information intelligence.

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Timely contextualised plant-level information to the mine
February 2014
Exxaro’s Grootegeluk mine opts for intelligent production reporting with help from Wonderware.

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Factory Widgets does it for ­productivity at ­ArcelorMittal
January 2014
ArchestrA adds value by collating and displaying near real-time KPI information on desktops.

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PlantPAx provides flexibility in mining solution
January 2014, Rockwell Automation
Plant control and reporting from Rockwell Automation drives sustainability at Gold Fields.

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iQuest integrates KEPServerEX for augmented reality
January 2014, eTX Data Services
Kepware enables iPads and iPhones to turn any plant floor into a data-rich environment.

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Yokogawa upgrades service solution
January 2014, Yokogawa South Africa
As part of its VigilantPlant Services (VPS) initiative, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has released an upgraded VPSRemote service solution. VPSRemote is a solution for the remote monitoring ...

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Protect industrial control ­systems from cyber attack
December 2013, RJ Connect
Moxa’s solution for gigabit industrial cybersecurity.

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Wonderware’s thin client solution at BASF
December 2013
Stand-alone office PCs are rarely, if ever, suited for the industrial environment, not only in terms of their potential for failure in demanding operating conditions, but also because of the consequences ...

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Creating high performance ­buildings for success
December 2013, Schneider Electric South Africa
The larger and more economically viable a city is, the more buildings and infrastructure it has. Ironically it is also these structures that sap a city of its energy and a business of its profitability. ...

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To OEE or not to OEE? That is the question
November 2013
The value of the OEE metric for continuous process industries has increasingly come under the spotlight in recent times. Is OEE a valid metric for industries where process back-up and redundancy are part of the basic design and where clear constraints cannot be easily determined?

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Altech selects Siemens for ­Manufacturing Execution System
November 2013, Siemens South Africa
Simatic IT will optimise set-top box production at Africa’s premier facility.

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