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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alarm fatigue can desensitise operators to the extent that they may ignore a critical alarm with potentially disastrous consequences.

The next generation in building control.

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.

Acquiring and processing analog signals of optimum quality.

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.

Flexible automation technology for rotary tables and antenna masts in EMC test laboratories.

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 ...

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 ...

Arc guard stops burn.

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 ...

RS Components has announced availability of an IoT web-based system from ABUS that delivers superior access control management for small to medium-sized commercial and industrial buildings. A winner ...

Beckhoff’s PC-based control eliminates the need for regular defrosting in meat freezers.

Twelve hundred signal conditioners on the plant. How many spares should you keep? This is a situation familiar to many end-users. How does one balance the cost of holding spares against plant downtime? ...

Bürkle based in Freudenstadt specialises in the field of press lines and coating technology, supplying turnkey production plants to its customers. To comply with the requirements of one customer requesting ...

Countapulse Controls has survived by instituting technological innovation in the face of socio-economic uncertainty. In its more than 60 years in business, this leading supplier of sensing solutions has ...

Yokogawa has released the ExaquantumTM R3.10. This latest version of the Exaquantum plant information management system comes with stronger security and improved compatibility through the support of OPC ...