IT in Manufacturing


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Siemens simplifies CNC programming
April 2010, Siemens South Africa
Efficient process chain boosts productivity in metal-working. At this year’s Metav trade show in February, the Siemens Division Drive Technologies exhibited products, applications and services aimed ...

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Improving the yield
April 2010
Impala Platinum ensures tight metals accounting processes. Impala Platinum, the second largest platinum producer in the world, has been relying on the production and inventory module of the Infor ERP ...

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EOH makes a mint
16 March 2010
SA Mint gearing up to make money with Wonderware MES

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Process performance enhancement technology
16 March 2010
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms launches advanced software solutions utilising process intelligence to maximise plant performance

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What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? - Part 3: Business IT and shop floor IT
March 2010
It is time to consider the human aspect of enterprise integration in respect of business IT and shop floor IT.

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Survival of the fittest
March 2010
What should the IT priorities be during a recession? Today the CIO in a struggling manufacturing company must do more with less as the company faces the future uncertainly. Times are tough in mining ...

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Windows Embedded Standard 2009
March 2010
Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is the next generation of Windows XP Embedded. It is based on the XP Embedded technology with Service Pack 3 included. Windows Embedded Standard delivers the power, familiarity, ...

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Windows embedded POSReady 2009
March 2010
In an economy where relationships are increasingly strategic to long-term profitability, businesses need to rely on POS (point-Of-service) devices to strengthen customer loyalty and drive down costs. ...

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What is 'IT in manufacturing' about: Part 2: Managing disparate information assets
February 2010
In this article, we investigate differing information needs and suggest ways to cope with the differences

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MES and EMI
February 2010
Which one is for you – and how can you tell?

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Rockwell leverages Incuity software
February 2010, Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation has announced the launch of FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI business intelligence software for manufacturing. VantagePoint EMI helps empower users at every level of an enterprise with ...

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eXtended automation
February 2010, Beckhoff Automation
TwinCAT 3 and eXtended automation technology (XAT) provide dynamic PC-based control software to expand the potential of the standard automation world considerably. In addition to the object-orientated ...

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Power Ethernet functionality
February 2010
More ease and flexibility in the planning of data networks. Belden has expanded the portfolio of its Hirschmann SPIDER products family with a low-cost switch including Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) functionality. ...

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Computer-aided compliance
22 January 2010
Illovo’s Pongola mill goes live with IntelliPermit.

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What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 1: Background and introduction
January 2010
What the machine is supposed to achieve (ie, competitive and quality finished goods, create a market, return a profit, etc

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Moxa Turbo Chain
January 2010, RJ Connect
Enable multiple redundant networks flexibly and reliably. At this year´s SPS/IPC/Drives show in Nuremberg, Moxa presented its new redundancy solution for Industrial Ethernet networks – Turbo Chain. Turbo ...

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Siemens enhances WinCC V7
January 2010, Siemens South Africa
Better planning of processes with calendar and scheduling application. The Siemens Industry Automation Division has enhanced its Simatic WinCC V7 process visualisation software with the Simatic WinCC ...

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New highs for VantagePoint
January 2010, Rockwell Automation
Web Exclusive - Read the interview online. S A Instrumentation and Control features editor, Andrew Ashton, managed to tie down Uwe Küppers, Rockwell Software’s director of Software for the EMEA region ...

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Adding functional mobility to IT systems
January 2010
Profitek, one of SA’s leading suppliers of industrial communication products, can now offer users of multiple platform IT systems more functionality and mobility with its AdderView CATx range of KVM switches, ...

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Web-enabled Studio 6.1
January 2010
Advantech’s Studio 6.1 is a web-enabled HMI/scada software tool. It enables complete control and monitoring facility operations through the Internet from anywhere outside the location. Personnel can maintain ...

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