Comprehensive solutions for the food and beverage sector June 2025, RS South Africa RS South Africa is reinforcing its commitment to the country’s dynamic food and beverage sector, backed by a comprehensive portfolio of over 800 000 products, extensive technical expertise and end-to-end service capabilities.
Case History 198: Cascade control overcomes valve problems June 2025, Michael Brown Control Engineering A large petrochemical refinery asked me to perform an audit on several critical base layer control loops. This article deals with a problem found on a valve controlling the flow of fuel to a heat exchanger.
Improved networking technology for fire and gas detection May 2025, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists Critical alarm and event management technology supplier, Omniflex has worked with the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation to upgrade equipment providing digital and analogue signals for its safety critical fire and gas alarm systems.
PC-based control for fertiliser May 2025, Beckhoff Automation, Editor's Choice On a farm in the USA, valuable ammonia is extracted from slurry and processed into ammonium sulphate. NSI Byosis has transformed this complex process into a flexible modular system. This modular approach requires an automation solution with flexible scalability in both hardware and software, which this Dutch company has found in PC-based control from Beckhoff.
Loop signature 28: Things to consider when tuning. May 2025, Michael Brown Control Engineering, Editor's Choice I was giving a course at a remote mine in the middle of the Namibian desert. We were discussing tuning responses, and as I always do on my courses, I mentioned that in my opinion ¼ amplitude damped tuning is not desirable, and is in fact not good.
How industrial network design impacts ESG commitments April 2025, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists In safety-critical industries like nuclear, petrochemical and oil and gas, installing a new industrial cable network is an extremely complicated task. Gary Bradshaw, a director of industrial network specialist, Omniflex explains why this is often unnecessary as plants are likely to have existing cabling capable of being used to create new industrial networks.
The ultimate industrial LoRaWAN gateway Africa Automation Technology Fair 2025 Show Preview The GW-101-LORA-4AO is the ultimate industrial LoRaWAN gateway, combining advanced IoT connectivity with expandable I/O.
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Hirschmann MSP Modular Series Africa Automation Technology Fair 2025 Show Preview The Hirschmann MSP Modular Series is a scalable networking solution designed for adaptability and high performance in industrial applications.
PC-based automated production system for photo calendars April 2025, Beckhoff Automation Producing up to 1800 photo calendars per hour using more than 90 servo axes, Durrer Spezialmaschinen develops a wide variety of special-purpose machines from the design phase to commissioning. A new production system for photo calendars proves the importance of comprehensive motion control expertise, with AM8000 servomotors and AX5000 servo drives from Beckhoff used for over 90 dynamically controlled axes.
Beckhoff’s TwinCAT Vision functionality extended April 2025, Beckhoff Automation The Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 Vision software portfolio offers additional image processing functions and extra options for camera integration.
IO-Link enables seamless communication and digital data transfer Africa Automation Technology Fair 2025 Show Preview, Pepperl+Fuchs Pepperl+Fuchs’s IO-Link enables seamless communication and digital data transfer from the control level right down to the sensor level.
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Complete process control solutions Africa Automation Technology Fair 2025 Show Preview, Morton Controls Morton Controls specialises in comprehensive process control solutions, from expert consulting and innovative design to seamless installation and commissioning.
Reliable mobile data connectivity Africa Automation Technology Fair 2025 Show Preview With its advanced SIM management platform for simplified industrial IoT connectivity, SIMcontrol helps businesses manage their SIM cards for scada systems, telemetry, monitoring and automation.
