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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Case History 184: Why couldn’t they tune the loops to get good control?
October 2022, Michael Brown Control Engineering
This month’s article by Michael Brown covers two examples where all the tuning in the world would not have achieved good control.

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Lower maintenance costs with online condition monitoring
October 2022, Phoenix Contact
Maintenance costs are reduced because inspections can be performed via remote access rather than locally, and the maintenance schedules can be event-based rather than time-based.

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Visualisation system sets new standards
October 2022, Siemens South Africa, SCADA/HMI
The combination of Simatic HMI Unified Comfort Panels with WinCC Unified software, augmented with open APIs and option packages, delivers a fully scalable system for operator control and monitoring.

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Omniflex introduces Teleterm
September 2022, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
Imagine your plant’s KPIs displayed front and centre, keeping plant personnel focused at all times.

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Loop Signatures 14: Digital controllers – Part 6: The D term, continued
September 2022, Michael Brown Control Engineering
Why would a DCS manufacturer set a default value in the system that effectively switches one of the parameters off? It is completely senseless.

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Measurements that can be relied on not to spoil the view
September 2022, VEGA Controls SA
The municipality of Austria’s picturesque Wolfgangsee increasingly relies on compact VEGAPULS C radar sensors to monitor and regulate effluent and ensure optimal sewage clarification.

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You can’t have your silos and converge them
September 2022
There are many benefits to IT and OT convergence, but it seems the culture and change management has a firm grip on both disciplines.

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Realising the fully digital process plant
September 2022, Pepperl+Fuchs
Ethernet-APL describes a new Ethernet physical layer that is tailored to the requirements of process plants while seamlessly integrating into the omnipresent Ethernet world.

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Cloud solutions for industrial applications
September 2022, Turck Banner Southern Africa, IT in Manufacturing
Making use of future-proof standard protocols like OPC UA and MQTT, systems can take advantage of Turck Cloud Solutions for integration into various cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Alibaba or Amazon Web Services.

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When safety instrumented systems and inadequate operators collide
September 2022
Is it not time to get our heads together and come up with a more holistic solution that incorporates both the physical and engineering aspects, as well as the people factors, to keep our plants running safely and reliably?

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Attaining a sustainable legacy
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Through this quagmire of crises and uncertainties, the wheels of industry must continue to turn if we are to sustain our modern way of life, and those wheels are, either directly or indirectly, powered by electricity.

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Meeting the challenges of water management with sensor technology
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2022, ifm - South Africa, Analytical Instrumentation & Environmental Monitoring
Holistic solutions for the automation and monitoring of plants are a key element for the efficient and sustainable water supply of the future.

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From Industry 4.0 to Industry Green.0
Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2022, Rockwell Automation, News
As sustainability becomes a business imperative for manufacturing organisations, they must incorporate sustainability goals into every step of the business lifecycle – because purpose and profit must go hand in hand.

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