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IDX hosts Procentec breakfast
October 2016, Industrial Data Xchange (IDX)
Industrial Data Xchange (IDX) recently hosted a breakfast session at Monte Casino to promote awareness for Profibus and Profinet solutions in the era of the Industrial Internet of Things. Matthew Dulcey, ...

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Magnet offers electrical inspection service
October 2016
Magnet offers local industry a specialist on-site inspection service to ensure a plant’s electrical installation complies with the law, in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 Electrical ...

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Saryx Engineering Group receives Wonderware certification
October 2016
The goal of Wonderware’s system integrator (SI) certification programme is to improve the excellence of industrial process control and industrial IT implementations that use Wonderware solutions. Certification ...

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A world-first for fuel efficiency in open cast mining from Siemens SA
October 2016, Siemens South Africa
Billions of litres of diesel are consumed annually by the global mining industry, which is under severe pressure from weak commodity prices. Up to 80% of this consumption comes from haulage trucks moving ...

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UIC Instrumentation acquires the agency for KPM products
October 2016, UIC Control & Automation
UIC Instrumentation has announced its representation of Kajaani Process Measurements (KPM) in the South African market. KPM develops unique measurement solutions for the pulp and paper industry and is ...

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AFL receives six new patents for products and technologies
October 2016, Comtest
AFL, represented locally by Comtest, has been awarded six patents for new products and technologies that are being used to enhance Optical Connectivity and Apparatus (OCA) products, fibre optic cable ...

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Motor rebuilt for Zambian copper mine
October 2016
Marthinusen & Coutts, a division of Actom, recently completed the rebuild of a 6550 kW 2 pole 11 000 V squirrel cage induction blower motor for a copper mine in Zambia. According to Rob Melaia, engineering ...

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Yokogawa Africa User’s Conference – don’t miss out
October 2016, Yokogawa South Africa
An exciting line up of speakers awaits delegates at the upcoming Yokogawa Africa User’s Conference taking place at the end of October in Johannesburg. International presenters from Yokogawa’s headquarters ...

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Siemens invests in SA’s future engineers
October 2016, Siemens South Africa
Three top-performing South African matrics have become the first students in sub-Saharan Africa to secure placement in the prestigious Siemens Apprenticeship Scheme in Germany. The global engineering ...

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MESA Africa Special Interest Group breakfast
October 2016
MESA Africa is hosting the next of its popular Special Interest Group breakfasts on Friday 7 October at the Black Eagle Boutique Hotel & Conference Centre, Ruimsig. The topic this time is “MESA roadmap ...

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Nick Denbow's European Report: Women with STEM and computing skills take the lead
October 2016, Editor's Choice
STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training is receiving a lot of current attention: but this is not something that is new. As the Founder of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1959 ...

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Magnet Energy offers hot water and wet services
October 2016
Magnet Energy’s hot water and wet services contracting division offers customised turnkey solutions to ensure energy efficiency in industrial, commercial and domestic sectors. “Magnet’s hot water and ...

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Factory automation simplified
October 2016, Omron Electronics
Omron introduces new factory automation devices based on its Push-In Plus wiring technology.

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From the editor's desk: Can an open systems magician pull a DCS out of the hat?
October 2016, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Heard at the recent ARC industry forum in Orlando, the call by ExxonMobil for a more open control system architecture laid down a challenge to traditional thinkers in the area of process automation. ExxonMobil’s ...

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The changing face of valve manufacturing in South Africa
October 2016
“Manufacturing in South Africa in the current climate is not for the faint hearted,” says Mike Sessions, chief executive officer at eDART. “Material costs are high, skills at all levels are scarce, labour ...

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Nick Denbow’s European report: Sales and marketing people to admire
September 2016, Editor's Choice
There is a family-run DIY shop in Winchester: it does not have the attractive displays of the DIY supercentres, it is crammed with stuff in crowded aisles, and you have to ask where to look for anything. ...

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Honeywell improves operator efficiency at Russian refinery
September 2016
Honeywell has announced that its Experion HS process automation system has been implemented at Kuban Oil and Gas Company’s Ilsky Refinery, one of the largest refineries in Russia’s Krasnodar Territory. ...

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Yokogawa’s Centum VP receives the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Prize
September 2016, Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa has announced that its Centum VP R6 integrated production control system has received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Prize of the 46th Machine Industry Design Awards. This is the ...

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Bosch rewards Internet of Things innovators
September 2016
Three young women engineers have been recognised by Bosch for their visions of how the Internet of Things (IoT) might transform the way we live our lives. Maz Chowdhury, Sophie Spooner and Ka Man Wong ...

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Mourning Alice Endress
September 2016, Endress+Hauser South Africa
The Endress+Hauser Group is in mourning for Alice Endress. Following a brief illness, the widow of the company founder died peacefully in her sleep on 6 July surrounded by her family. She was 97 years ...

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