Problems in a plant with no positioners on valves February 2002, Michael Brown Control Engineering During the two-day practical part of a course held recently in a large South African chemical plant, it was found that none of the valves had positioners on them. This is very unusual these days.
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'Mission impossible' succeeds at giant Esso refinery January 2002 The Esso Petroleum Company refinery at Fawley on Southampton Water is the largest in Europe. The refinery's 330 kb capacity supplies over 15% of all the oil products used in Britain, with 85% of its products ...
Solutions in action at Continental Tyre SA January 2002 Continental Tyre SA is one of the country's leading tyre manufacturers and has a high-volume tyre production facility in Port Elizabeth. The competitive world of tyre manufacturing involves complex and ...
SI conference a huge success December 2001 With over 65 delegates in attendance, the recent Futuristix-Wonderware's System Integrator conference was the largest of its kind ever held in southern Africa. The conference was held on 5-7 October 2001 ...
Are there problems in the control loops? December 2001, Michael Brown Control Engineering Although this is appearing in the middle of the current series of loop signatures on digital controllers, I felt that it would be nice to have a change and write another article on some of the more interesting ...
Hendrina power station contract for Siemens November 2001 In a deal worth in excess of R35m, Eskom's Hendrina Power Station has awarded the control and instrumentation (C&I) refurbishment contract for Units 1 to 5 to Siemens. Additionally, the company also secured ...
Electron IT profile November 2001 Electron IT is a specialist division of Electron Technologies dedicated to providing simple, cost-effective and contemporary solutions in process automation. Harnessing its extensive process experience, ...
Electron Technologies completes installation at Venetia Mine November 2001 Electron Technologies has successfully completed an electrical and instrumentation installation at the secondary crusher on De Beers' Venetia Mine, 80 km west of Messina in the Northern Province.
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Digital user interfaces November 2001 Distramodal is offering its Model 350 digital indicator intended for use in general industrial weighing, system integration and process control. Available in a black powder-coated, die-cast zinc or brushed ...
Modbus communication card November 2001 Combining Modbus communication with the PAX series of panel meters enables a panel meter to display values, setpoints and reset values stored within the PAX meter which can now be accessed via RS485 Modbus ...
Digital controllers: Part 4 - the I term November 2001, Michael Brown Control Engineering In the previous article in this series, it was shown that the main problem with the P only controller is the fact that it is not capable of eliminating offset between setpoint and process variable (PV) ...
Merging control and information - Part I October 2001, Rockwell Automation It is crucial that production information passes rapidly from production software to enterprise-wide business applications
Automating fibre-optics using motion and vision technology October 2001 The system was based on the National Instruments' PXI platform along with MXI-3 for additional slot capability, and included National Instruments motion, vision, DAQ, signal conditioning, and LabWindows/CVI, a component of Measurement Studio
CS Holdings efficiently carries out R5 million factory automation October 2001 In a deal valued at over R5 million, JSE-listed CS Holdings' mining and manufacturing systems division, CS Systems Integration, has been awarded the factory automation contract for the Marromeu Sugar ...
Streamworks awarded IHM contracted valued over R1,5m October 2001 ABB Automation has awarded Streamworks a contract valued over R1,5m for the development of the control systems for the mineral separation and roaster plants at the new Iscor heavy minerals project based ...
BeST to optimise cement mill October 2001 BeST South Africa, a supplier of integrated and optimised control solutions, has recently secured a contract to optimise the control of the cement kiln at Dwaalboom, a large integrated cement factory ...
Flour milling facility gets fully automated October 2001 AIB Bakery erected a fully automated flour milling, premix manufacturing and packaging facility in Mount Edgecombe to supply its franchise of bakeries with premix.
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Dynamic process and control simulation at Mossgas September 2001 BeST is responsible for the provision of computer-based simulation facilities for both the DCS and ESD/F&G systems that include simulations of the total dynamic process from the sub-sea gas reservoirs to the onshore reception vessels
ISI complete Matla and Matimba upgrade - and take on a world-first September 2001 Industrial Systems Integrators has succeeded in upgrading the Matla power station outside water plant, the Majuba power station simulator and the Matimba power station precipitators, all to Citect in ...
Comms software connects lime kiln control to a central data historian September 2001 BeST's Industrial Data Exchange (iDX) software, used for the integration of diverse information sources in process automation, manufacturing execution systems, and enterprise resource planning systems, ...
