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Europe’s largest-ever Emerson Users Conference to be held in Milan
December 2019, Emerson Automation Solutions
The largest-ever Emerson Global Users Exchange in Europe will be taking place in Milan, Italy, in 2020. The biennial conference will be held at the Milano Convention Centre from March 18 to 20, with current ...

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World record for Festo’s BionicOpter
December 2019, Festo South Africa
The Festo BionicOpter will be included in the 2020 Guinness World Records. The chapter ‘Robots’ presents the most amazing records from the world of super robots and artificial intelligence. The Festo ...

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BMG’s Food & Beverage Expo voted a success
December 2019, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
BMG’s recent Food & Beverage Expo, held at the BMG World distribution and engineering facility, has been voted a great success. “Highlights of the event included presentations from guest speaker, Linda ...

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BI leverages synergies across Hudaco Group
December 2019, Bearings International
As part of the Hudaco Group, Bearings International (BI) is able to leverage synergies across a broad range of companies, meaning it can offer a complete product basket across its branch network countrywide. In ...

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Nidec extends warranty on Commander drives
December 2019, Nidec Control Techniques
Control Techniques has launched a free, five-year warranty for its Commander range of general-purpose drives. Anyone who purchases a drive from the Commander range will now be able to register to extend ...

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African mines gear up with SEW-Eurodrive’s new service
December 2019, SEW-EURODRIVE
A convenient and cost-effective option for ageing African mines, some of them 50 to 60 years’ old, is to have their geared units professionally refurbished by SEW-Eurodrive. Supplementing its refurbishment ...

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DEHN Africa provides 3D laser scanning for lightning protection design
December 2019
3D laser scanning delivers many benefits for industrial and engineering projects, providing precise and reliable data which allows for improved planning and scheduling. Without physically touching what ...

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Local panel manufacturer stays at the cutting edge of technology innovation
December 2019, WEG Africa
As a leading electrical control panel manufacturer, WEG Automation Africa stays at the cutting edge of innovation through its research and development driven approach which sees continuous product improvement- ...

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BMG appointed distributor by HEKO Ketten
December 2019, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
BMG has been appointed by HEKO Ketten as official distributors in southern Africa of Heko conveyor components, including round link chains. “High wear-resistant HEKO components for bulk material conveyors, ...

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Curtailing youth unemployment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
December 2019
The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies and coordinator of Government’s 4IR programme Ms Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, in partnership with MICT SETA, has launched a pilot skills development ...

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Elonics donates LSIS PLC+HMI to UKZN School of Engineering
December 2019, Elonics
Elonics recently donated an LSIS Automation Kit to UKZN’s electrical engineering department, which included the XEC Series PLC with HMI including programming software and necessary cables. Final year ...

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From the editor's desk: The power of 23
December 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Have you ever looked back on a year and wondered how you survived it? For the majority of South Africans, 2019 was such a year. It started benignly enough, cosily wrapped in the blanket of Ramaphoria ...

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Robust absolute linear position measurement
December 2019, ATI Systems
Temposonics, an MTS Systems company, is a leading supplier of magnetostrictive sensors, which are rapidly becoming the transducers of choice in many applications.

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The IIoT edge is evolving
January 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
In its IIoT context, the edge is traditionally understood to be a kind of half-way point between the plant and the cloud. Physically hard to define, the edge acts as a repository for data collected from ...

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University of London opens electronics laboratory based on Tektronix solutions
January 2020, Comtest
Royal Holloway, University of London, has officially opened its new Beatrice Shilling Building which includes state-of-the-art teaching laboratories in partnership with Tektronix, a leading worldwide ...

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Rockwell Automation named a leader in Manufacturing Execution Systems
January 2020
Rockwell Automation has announced its recognition as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems for the second consecutive year. Since the 2018 report, Rockwell Automation ...

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SKF acquires industrial AI company
January 2020
SKF has signed an agreement to acquire Presenso, a company that develops and deploys artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictive maintenance software. Presenso’s capability enables production plants ...

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Bosch Ulwazi hosts 2019 Engineer in Training function
January 2020
Bosch Ulwazi’s 2019 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Conference was recently held in Mt Edgecombe. At this annual event, graduates are given an interactive platform to showcase the knowledge and skills they ...

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Smart cities embrace 4IR
January 2020, Schneider Electric South Africa
Smart cities rely on smart grid technology that includes traditional and renewable energy sources in its mix of power supply. Driven by the advanced technology of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), ...

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North American EtherCAT Plug Fest offers opportunities
January 2020
The 2019 North American EtherCAT Plug Fest recently took place in Denver, USA. Numerous well-known manufacturers of EtherCAT devices came together over two days to test the interoperability of their products ...

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