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Strategic partnership supports small businesses
April 2020
Small businesses in the local manufacturing industries were recently celebrated for outstanding achievement in Macsteel’s award winning Usizo Supplier Development Programme, run in conjunction with ORT ...

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Actum merges its brands
April 2020, Actum
Over the years, Actum Group has been built through partnerships, collaborations and acquisitions of leading companies with a long history and rich legacy in the industry. These companies include Actum ...

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WearCheck expands in West Africa
April 2020, Wearcheck
Condition monitoring specialist, WearCheck, has upgraded its laboratory in Tarkwa, Ghana to a state-of-the-art testing centre which can now analyse transformer oil, coolant and fuel – amongst a host of ...

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BMG extends transmission range
April 2020, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
BMG has extended its range of power transmission components to include its recently upgraded Fenagrid Premium grid couplings. These taper grid steel flexible couplings accommodate angular, parallel and ...

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Skyriders receives recognition for a customised solution
April 2020
Well known for its innovation in devising customised solutions for specific client requirements, rope-access specialist Skyriders recently received recognition from a major petrochemical producer for ...

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Appointments
April 2020, Beckhoff Automation
Beckhoff has appointed Brendan van der Westhuizen as support technician.   

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Ice cream factory switches from coal to gas-fired boilers
April 2020
When looking for an efficient solution to switch from its old and inefficient coal-fired boilers, an ice cream factory looked for a trusted product from a reputable supplier. Egoli Gas supplied the factory ...

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Gear reducer improves mine’s performance
April 2020, Bearings International
The outstanding performance of ABB’s Dodge gear reducer at Kwena Coal Mine in Mpumalanga has led to Bearings International (BI) purchasing a second unit to be installed on another key conveyor. Kwena ...

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From the editor's desk: Maintenance is the new cool
Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
An interesting spin-off of digitalisation in today’s manufacturing plants is how it has elevated the maintenance department from obscurity to the status of primary organisational profit driver. Preventative ...

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Aguru announces agreement with French industrial services company Ennovia
1 April 2020
Aguru Business Solutions (Aguru), a company specialising in automation and digital transformation advisory and project management services, has announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement ...

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Drones in the front line of the fight against coronavirus
1 April 2020
Since the World Health Organisation moved to declare COVID-19 a pandemic in early March, public health experts around the world have advocated for self-isolation as a way to reduce the spread of the disease ...

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Rockwell Automation acquires ASEM
1 April 2020, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Italy-based ASEM, a leading provider of digital automation technologies. ASEM provides a complete range of industrial ...

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RS Components SA provides essential products and supplies through lockdown
1 April 2020, RS South Africa
Minister of Trade, Industry and Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, recently announced that his department had extended the list of businesses that constitute an ‘essential service’ and will be allowed ...

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Legrand offers 24/7 healthcare support to the elderly and those in lockdown
1 April 2020, Legrand
Legrand’s integrated healthcare solutions, which provide 24-hour support for the elderly and those in lockdown who need help, encompass a range of alarm and call systems, designed for safe and reliable ...

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The African Hydrogen Partnership Conference
1 April 2020, RTS Africa Engineering
In the context of carbon emissions and the need for green energy, the first African Hydrogen Partnership (AHP) Conference was held from 19-20 February at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis ...

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Model for Smart Manufacturing announced by MESA International
1 April 2020
MESA International has announced the development of a new model called ‘The Model for Smart Manufacturing’. The model will cover several intersecting dimensions including business intelligence, product ...

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SA gloves-up in the fight against coronavirus
April 2020, Pepperl+Fuchs
As the world’s hospitals buckle under the stress of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, so the need for extra ventilator systems has become critical in the healthcare sector. While early statistics show ...

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Zest pioneers remote acceptance testing during lockdown
April 2020, WEG Africa
In an innovative step to keep a customer’s mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on schedule despite the impact of Covid-19, Zest WEG successfully conducted a remote witness test of ...

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How 5G can help the fight against Coronavirus
April 2020
5G can enhance the effectiveness of pandemic prevention and treatment and drive the digital transformation of healthcare systems in response to major public emergencies, such as the current pandemic of ...

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From the editor's desk: Digital twins require digital threads and therein lies the rub
March 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
It’s interesting to see how the use of digital twins to drive production efficiency is maturing thanks to the cost-effective implementation technologies of the IIoT. One of the bottlenecks to wider adoption ...

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