System Integration & Control Systems Design


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Increased quantity and quality of blends with Moore solutions
September 2018, Moore Process Controls
Ageing and obsolete control systems at a US-based producer of general and speciality grade polymers, was negatively affecting both throughput and the quality of blends. When Moore Process Controls approached ...

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Digital future for food and beverage industry
August 2018, Schneider Electric South Africa
Food and beverage manufacturers face a wide variety of challenges in today’s demanding consumer climate, including changes in customer demands, product traceability, operations visibility and strict regulatory ...

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Optimum nutritional content
August 2018, Siemens South Africa
Infrared oven for defrosting and preparing food uses Siemens technology.

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Autotronix supplies electrical ­control and instrumentation ­system for the Lower Thukela Water Scheme
August 2018, Autotronix
Autotronix has designed, installed and commissioned the electrical and control system that is in use at a large bulk potable water infrastructure project in KwaZulu-Natal, known as the Lower Thukela Bulk ...

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Controlling the IIoT
Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things & Industry 4.0, Schneider Electric South Africa
How the Industrial Internet of Things is changing the role of the control engineer.

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Aspects to consider when securing ­industrial automation control system networks
Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things & Industry 4.0, RJ Connect
The most common examples are PLCs DCSs and scada systems. Such networks are known as industrial automation control systems. The main benefit of an IACS is that it allows greater efficiency by facilitating ...

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Giving back control to RCL Foods’ Pongola plant
July 2018, Control Software Solutions
RCL Foods’ Pongola sugar mill is situated in northern KwaZulu-Natal and was operating a proprietary DCS that was installed in 1980. This obsolete and antiquated system resulted in unacceptable production ...

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Modern electromechanical machine design
June 2018, Parker Hannifin - Sales Company South Africa
Engineers from the older generation will remember the days when machine design had to be based around catalogued electromechanical actuators. Variations from standard were rare, in addition to being expensive. ...

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Ai2SA replaces HMI on legacy Mitsubishi A series PLC
June 2018, Ai2SA
Architects Integrating Industry (Ai2SA), which specialises in ‘optimally managing and scoping industrial systems projects’, was recently contracted to replace a faulty HMI on a legacy Mitsubishi A Series ...

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Afrilek optimises boiler control at KwaZulu-Natal plant
June 2018, Afrilek Automation
UCL Company, a diverse agricultural operation based in Dalton, KwaZulu-Natal, has expertise in wattle bark extract exports, sugar cane production and pine lumber. The company identified a need to upgrade ...

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Yokogawa’s alarm shelving capability
May 2018, Yokogawa South Africa
Alarm fatigue can desensitise operators to the extent that they may ignore a critical alarm with potentially disastrous consequences.

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TwinCAT 3 Building Automation
May 2018, Beckhoff Automation
The next generation in building control.

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Yokogawa’s revolutionary network-based control system
April 2018, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa’s unique portfolio for best-in-class scada solutions comprises of the versatile Stardom network-based control system (NCS), and the FAST/TOOLS supervisory HMI software platform.

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Versatile signal conditioners
April 2018, Phoenix Contact
Acquiring and processing analog signals of optimum quality.

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Festo’s comprehensive asset optimisation, maintenance and energy efficiency solutions
Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2018, Festo South Africa, Maintenance, Test & Measurement, Calibration
Festo’s technical experts and efficient technologies ensure that machines and systems have shorter downtime, consume fewer resources and less energy. This leads to increases in the sustainability of production processes and overall company productivity.

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Precise positioning and interference-free communication
Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2018, Beckhoff Automation
Flexible automation technology for rotary tables and antenna masts in EMC test laboratories.

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SEW-Eurodrive collaborates on systems integration
April 2018, SEW-EURODRIVE
Electrical wholesale supplier and panel builder, Ptytrade 228 is a successful systems integrator that uses SEW-Eurodrive products in its electrical panels and motor control centres (MCCs). The two companies ...

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Flexible manufacturing through innovation in automation
Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2018, Omron Electronics
Omron’s i-Automation ‘Innovation in Manufacturing’ drive is focused on intelligent, integrated, and interactive automation to increase overall plant proficiency. The company functions as a partner to ...

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PSY Systems averts expensive shutdown
April 2018
Arc guard stops burn.

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Working-at-height safety solution
April 2018, News
Rope-access specialist Skyriders has provided a working-at-height safety solution for a contractor undertaking maintenance at the Sappi Ngodwana pulp and paper mill in Mpumalanga. It follows an earlier ...

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