SI wins Mauritian contract May 2001 Set Point Turnkey Solutions (SPTS) has been awarded a R2,5 million contract by Degremont of Southern Africa for the water treatment plant at La Marie in Central Mauritius, part of the Mare Aux Vacoas ...
Yelland Control appoints client integrators May 2001 System Integrators Buhler and NC Automation, both based in Johannesburg, have recently been awarded client integrator certification from Yelland Control.
Buhler specialises in the food and beverage, ...
Keeping track of transport bins on a global scale May 2001 It is vital in an industry as challenging as that of the highly perishable fruit export market to cut costs wherever possible, and one way of reducing capital outlay is to implement the use of collapsible ...
Electrical contract successfully completed in Zimbabwe May 2001 Electron has successfully completed an electrical turnkey contract, valued at R4,3m, for the Chitungwiza sewage treatment works located just outside of Harare. The project was financed and managed by ...
Regulatory controls in most plants do not work properly May 2001 As mentioned many times in previous articles, most people's perceptions are that the basic regulatory controls are operating reasonably well in their plants. Our experience has proved time and time again ...
The wastewater treatment process April 2001 WSP developed special algorithms for balancing tank control, aeration DO control and sludge age control in the bioreactor
Keeping track and cutting losses - Part III of III April 2001 Production models provide the framework to deliver the precise control over planning, inventory, reporting and costing critical to process operations
Making sense of e-manufacturing - Part IV: Integrated control and information April 2001, Rockwell Automation By migrating current factory floor control with commercial technologies, plant floor engineers hold a key card for an e-manufacturing strategy: a flexible exchange of the critical production data for the benefit of the greater enterprise
PETRO wastewater system to be commercialised worldwide April 2001 Amandla International, the environmental and technology solutions group, recently announced that it has added the South African-developed PETRO wastewater purification system to its portfolio. The PETRO ...
Do mines have particularly bad control problems? April 2001, Michael Brown Control Engineering In the far distant past when I first started my own business we specialised in automating plants mainly on gold and platinum mines. Even inexperienced as I was in those days, I soon realised that the ...
Keeping track and cutting losses - Part II of III March 2001 With production models, a user can define production and cost distribution percentages (which may differ) for multiple outputs throughout the process
Not just automation - 'intermation' March 2001 Throughout the last few years, it has become apparent that customers are becoming more and more reliant on useful and timely production information. The emphasis, which was completely on the availability ...
Intelligent automation in the food and beverage industry March 2001 Command of every element of a business, from sensor to boardroom, is an essential feature for today's management. Tying the operation together into one totally integrated information continuum means that ...
Affordable analog and digital I/O card February 2001 Advantech's PCL-711S, from ProMicro, is an affordable analog and digital I/O card offering A/D and D/A conversion, digital input and digital output. The half-sized card includes eight 12-bit analog inputs, ...
Annual technology conference for SA system integrators January 2001 Futuristix-Wonderware's annual SI conference has become a traditional and noteworthy event for professionals serving SA's manufacturing industry. Companies representing approximately a R1bn slice of the ...
