Honeywell appoints distributor/technology partner in Ghana June 2000 Honeywell Southern Africa has appointed CNSI Technologies as its authorised distributor/technology partner in Ghana. Based in Tema, the industrial centre of Ghana, CNSI will offer the full range of Honeywell ...
System Intergrators: a vision for the future May 2000 The primary focus of the Streamworks Group is on harnessing the benefits offered by industrial information technology in order to maximise production in South African factories, particularly those competing ...
Coal handling plant replaces scada system May 2000 Industrial System Integrators (ISI) was commissioned by the Project and Technology Services (P&TS) department of Sasol Coal to handle the replacement of the scada software and related activities as part ...
Control: perceptions versus reality May 2000 When starting in-plant control courses I always ask the class members to give me their individual estimates as to how many of their loops they believe to be operating satisfactorily in automatic. In a ...
CS Holdings April 2000 Manufacturing and engineering companies now have access to software that will integrate their industrial control instrumentation with their business systems such as ERP, billing, wages and material management. ...
Unusual control loops in a chemical plant April 2000 During in-plant courses on practical process control the most interesting part of the course is always the last few days which are spent optimising live loops in the actual plant. Even with a powerful ...
Measuring pH at the headbox in the paper making process March 2000, PREI Instrumentation Background
The headbox is used to physically prepare the pulp stock before it is converted into paper by the paper machine. The pulp stock supplied to the headbox has a consistency of between 2 and 5% ...
Alstom Automation March 2000 Port Elizabeth's division of Alstom Automation is growing rapidly, along with the regional economy. Alstom Automation covers the entire spectrum of factory automation. By integrating shopfloor automation ...
Vital Systems March 2000 Vital Systems is based in Witbank and services the Mpumalanga and Gauteng area. The company was established in 1996 and specialises in all fields of industrial automation covering the fields of electronic, ...
Another valve with weird characteristics March 2000 Figure 1 is the open loop test on the flow loop. It should be noted that as the valve appeared extremely linear with a nice fast response and was hysteresis free, the test was only conducted over a flow ...
System Integrator on the move Jan 2000 Registered Adroit system integrator Calculus System Projects of Randburg, Gauteng, has joined the Production Information Technologies (PIT) Group in a move to focus on improving productivity and efficiency ...
SI strengthens presence in power management Jan 2000 The success of an automation installation at Durban Roodepoort Deep Gold Mine has earned Adroit Systems Integrator (SI) Wilkenson & Venter Electronics similar projects at four other mines.
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Lesotho's Katse Dam control system. Jan 2000 Industrial automation company Streamworks recently installed an automated control system at Katse Dam in Lesotho. Katse Dam is one of the highest dams in Africa and one of the largest concrete arch dams ...
