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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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SKF launches Green Finance Framework
March 2020, SKF South Africa
By engaging in green financing, SKF’s funding strategy will become more aligned with the Group’s climate objectives, to reduce carbon emissions from its own manufacturing and supply chain operations, ...

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African drone business challenge finalists announced
March 2020
The African Drone Forum has announced the finalists of the first African Drone Business Challenge, a business plan competition for African entrepreneurs to uncover new commercial use cases for drone applications ...

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Rockwell Automation to acquire Avnet Data Security
March 2020, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Avnet Data Security, an Israeli-based cybersecurity provider with over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity ...

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Endress+Hauser Digital Solutions celebrates 20 years of innovation and automation solutions
March 2020, Endress+Hauser South Africa
For two decades, Endress+Hauser has given the topic of digitalisation a place you call home. Endress+Hauser Digital Solutions is responsible within the Group for everything related to digital communications ...

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Industri Tools & Equipment supplies Colliery Training College
March 2020
The Colliery Training College (CTC) in Emalahleni (Witbank), has awarded Industri Tools & Equipment the 2020 contract to supply tool kits, which are used during mining and engineering related skills training. ...

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Varispeed in 2020 and beyond
March 2020, Varispeed (A Division of Hudaco Trading)
Varispeed is a proudly South African company and is part of the JSE listed Hudaco Trading group of companies. Varispeed was founded in 1984 and is a specialist partner in electronic motor control and ...

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SEW-Eurodrive supplies copper mining project in DRC
March 2020, SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW-Eurodrive has supplied a comprehensive drive package to a major copper-mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The package comprised nine drives in total, of which the five main 500 kW ...

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Coal mine sees benefit in Trafo dry-type transformers
March 2020
Trafo Power Solutions, experts in dry-type transformers, recently completed a contract as part of a significant upgrade at a Mpumalanga coal mine. This involved the design, supply and installation of ...

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