Tharisa Minerals looks to Zest WEG for electrical equipment February 2023, WEG Africa, Electrical Power & Protection When PGM and chrome producer Tharisa Minerals built its pioneering Vulcan ultra-fine chrome recovery and beneficiation plant near Rustenburg, it looked to Zest WEG for a range of electrical equipment.
Magnetic bearings for sustainable compressed air production February 2023, SKF South Africa, Motion Control & Drives SKF’s magnetic bearings are playing a key role in reducing CO2 emissions across a range of industrial applications, including compressors.
A complete control-integrated vision solution from Beckhoff February 2023, Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff Vision offers machine builders and end users a complete image processing system that covers all the necessary components from software to illumination. Seamlessly integrated into EtherCAT-based control technology, it opens up significant competitive advantages for users.
ATEQ in pole position for electric vehicle testing January 2023, ATEQ South Africa, Maintenance, Test & Measurement, Calibration Whether electric cars, trucks, buses or bikes, the ATEQ Group’s 45+ years of experience provides the quality processes that manufacturers require to make better, faster, and more reliable vehicles.
MESA Africa 2022 year-end conference review January 2023, MESA Africa NPC If there’s one thing similar conferences can learn from MESA, their guest speaker and motivational speaker calibre is from another planet.
Immersive training for chemicals operators and engineer January 2023, IT in Manufacturing Immersive training can help the chemical industry empower and engage with the next generation of operators and engineers, by reducing risks and cost, while speeding up training.
Control loop case history 185: Temperature cascade control on boiler desuperheaters. January 2023, Michael Brown Control Engineering, System Integration & Control Systems Design This is a wonderful example of how the use of a cascade flow control still allowed excellent control of the primary temperature control loop to be achieved, in spite of a valve with severe problems.
Disruptive technologies to deal with disruption January 2023, RS South Africa, News COVID-19 has accelerated the need for, and the move towards, increased digitalisation across industry. RS Components outlines some of the solutions and trends to look out for.
Keeping an eye on production down to the last detail January 2023, Beckhoff Automation, IT in Manufacturing Beckhoff’s TwinCAT Analytics makes it easy to adopt a more comprehensive approach to calculating key production figures and monitoring equipment.
IP67 PLCs control autonomous conveyor modules January 2023, Turck Banner Southern Africa, Motion Control & Drives, PLCs, DCSs & Controllers Self-driven, electric eCarts from the Krups Group optimise the assembly and testing track in the battery pack production of German car manufacturers.
Data analytics, AI and ML demystified November 2022, Iritron Iritron’s Gerhard Greeff and Neels van der Walt dive into the data haystack to discover how relatively simple it can be to find the proverbial needle.
SLA battery management for low standby requirements October 2022, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists, Electrical Power & Protection Omniflex advises on the proper selection, sizing and choice of sealed lead-acid batteries for backup power in small DC systems.
Flexible I/O and safety modules optimise intralogistics November 2022, Turck Banner Southern Africa, Motion Control & Drives EAE Solutions optimised its intralogistics solutions using flexibly configurable modules from Turck to transfer a countless number of sensor and actuator signals.
SA Gauge: A shining example of South African resilience November 2022, SA Gauge A new SANAS-accredited lab is being built which is expected to be up and running in January 2023. At 145 m2, it will be a fair bit bigger than the current lab to accommodate more equipment and improve turnaround times.
In it for the long haul November 2022, Siemens South Africa Siemens provides a complete field instrumentation portfolio for the processing of minerals, which is key to implementing a cohesive automation strategy that values not only production output, but also operator safety.
Mining industry collaboration is vital November 2022 A mature approach to collaboration, even between competitors, can lead to the entire industry responding more effectively to the challenges it faces collectively.
EtherCAT v1 - the one and only October 2022 Learn more about the unique functional principle of EtherCAT and how it simplifies implementation for end users while expanding the number of available devices.
Digitalisation of pressure measurement through IoT October 2022, Instrotech Keller has extensive experience in recording and processing measurement data, whether for water level or fill level monitoring, or general pressure measurement. Digitalisation takes this to the next level.
