Engineering solution implemented at Hillside Aluminium May 2002 Industrial IT and Supply Chain Solutions company Streamworks have secured an order from ABB South Africa, part of the global power and automation technology group, to implement and commission an engineering ...
Industrial Technology Systems Integration (ITSI) May 2002 Offering its clients single-source solutions for fully integrated and advanced computer-based systems in any industrial sector, believes that adding real value to an enterprise can best be achieved by ...
Modern 2 MW engine testing facility commissioned May 2002, Designs Unique Designs Unique of Johannesburg and NTB Technical Services of Cape Town recently commissioned a sophisticated and modern test centre at one of MTU's South African branches, in Isando. This test centre ...
Greenfields project yields a healthy 2 tons of gold per month May 2002 Randgold's Morila Mine is a greenfields project designed to process 250 000 tons of ore a month to yield in excess of 2 tons of gold at highly competitive rates. The mine is fully automated and necessarily ...
System integrator assists with batching system at Lever Ponds April 2002 The most unique feature of the system is that it is truly an automated system in that the only human intervention required is that of an operator physically scheduling the batches
New network-based system is launched April 2002 Stardom allows distribution and autonomy of control functions, integration of data, messages, and events, and features a web-based human interface based on Internet technologies
Single module rack controls up to 128 axes April 2002 Mitsubishi Electric's new MR-J2-Super servo series delivers outstanding synchronisation performance, extreme precision and super-short positioning times
Drive solutions concept simplifies setting up April 2002, Nidec Control Techniques The configuration of the system is made very easy, through an operator interface or by entering configuration parameters directly on the drive
Kruger Park water system undergoes massive upgrade April 2002 "Aside from level and flow (the latter measured using Siemens flowmeters), turbidity and automatic chlorination levels are also measured."
Shopping mall fountain controlled by digital I/O boards April 2002 Eagle Technology supplied the PC-based system, which included a PCI digital I/O board (PCI-836C), a docking board (PC43A2), eight channel solid state relay boards (PC-37D) and an eight channel optically isolated input board, (PC-43E)
Flexible controller aids in-plant standardisation April 2002 While small in size, its makers say that the Gefran 600 still performs up to scratch with the latest controller technology. The 600 can easily control any thermal process thanks to its robust control ...
Control problem in an ammonium nitrate prilling plant April 2002, Michael Brown Control Engineering In this issue Michael Brown has forwarded an interesting article submitted by Melvin Jones who graduated from the University of Pretoria as a chemical engineer. He has a keen interest in process control ...
RFID chosen for material handling solutions March 2002 Rapistan Systems has integrated Escort Memory Systems' products to build complete tracking systems at John Deere and Lear Corporation.
Rapistan Systems, also known as Siemens Dematic, is said to be the ...
Hi-tech PLC solution for Botswana-based breweries March 2002, Flexible Electronic Systems Flexible Electronic Systems was recently commissioned to design and manufacture two applications for Kgalagadi Breweries in Gaborone, Botswana.
The first phase of the project was to install and automate ...
Limekiln upgrade exceeds expectation March 2002 Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions has successfully completed an upgrade to the control system managing production activities at Sappi's Ngodwana Mill limekiln.
Sappi's Jeff Hosking says the upgrade has exceeded ...
Portable high-performance scopemeter March 2002 Spescom MeasureGraph's ScopeMeter190 Series was designed to meet the needs of service professionals and electronic engineers involved in system integration of engineering, installation and second-line ...
Scada user conference promises to be the best yet February 2002 The conference will play host to 10 international speakers and will allow delegates a choice of over 50 workshops and 30 exhibitor stands to review
Maximising alcohol recovery process at Sasol chemical industries February 2002 Sasol Chemical Industries has appointed Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions to install an Advanced Process Control (APC) system on one of its Alcohol Recovery Units.
George La Grange, Senior Control Engineer ...
