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Education in supply chain management and enterprise intelligence to receive a boost
August 2002
A new era will dawn for education in Enterprise Intelligence (EI) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a result of a pending partnership between Global Technology Business Intelligence (GBI) and SAPICS, ...

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Mossel Bay instrumentation and electrical contract for B&W
August 2002
A complex instrumentation and electrical contract at the new Low Aromatics Distillates project at Petro SA's Mossel Bay plant has been awarded to B&W Instrumentation and Electrical by Foster Wheeler. The ...

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BP awards Honeywell $13,9 million contract
September 2002
Overseas news In recent months the Industry Solutions business of Honeywell announced that BP has selected it, along with Mustang Automation and Control, as the control system vendor and integration ...

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Local instrumentation company explores China gold
September 2002
Laser Measurement has taken positive and fruitful steps towards expanding into the Chinese gold mining industry. Wendy Richards, managing director of LaserM, was recently invited by the China Gold Association ...

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South African process control company signs international partnership
September 2002
Local specialist condition management and process control company, Crusader Systems, has formed an alliance with international Outokumpu Oy, Finland, with a partner plan for South African technology to ...

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Secunda - the annual event
September 2002
The heart of the petrochemical industry and numerous other supporting industries around the Secunda area were once again hosts to this year's Control and Instrumentation Roadshow, on 25 July 2002. For ...

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Thirty years in device programming
September 2002
Data I/O Corporation, a leading provider of device programming and handling solutions, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this quarter. Since the company introduced the world's first commercial programmer ...

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Starvation on our borders
August 2002
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has described the threatening famine in six southern African countries as the worst current humanitarian disaster in the world. At a recent media conference, ...

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The chickens are coming home to roost
September 2002
I was recently afforded the opportunity to attend the Test and Measurement Conference 2002, an annual event organised by the National Laboratory Association (NLA). One of the co-sponsors of the conference, ...

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Control project development demonstrated live after breakfast
July 2002
"Applications are getting increasingly sophisticated because they have to provide concrete help to end-users and system integrators involved with ever more complex projects."

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Aspentech to acquire Hyprotech
July 2002
Aspen Technology has agreed to acquire Hyprotech, a leading supplier of process simulation and engineering software and services to the petroleum industry. As a result of this acquisition, AspenTech expects ...

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Canadian firm invests in Cape Town
July 2002
In a major coup for South African manufacturing, Winters Instruments, a leading Canadian instrumentation manufacturer, has acquired the majority shareholding in Rhomberg's business, with the employees ...

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SI and MES provider boldly enters new playing field
July 2002
Keops Isis Industrial Information Systems (Keops Isis), a member of the multi billion rand JSE-listed Altech Group of companies, has recently identified a new playing field in the industrial quality assurance ...

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Name change for test and measurement giant
July 2002
AVO International, one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of portable test and measurement equipment, is moving to enhance its already-strong market position by focussing on a single ...

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Swift-Heat makes two acquisitions
July 2002
Swift-Heat has traditionally focused on the manufacture and supply of heating elements and certain ancillary products to the industrial sector since its' inception in 1986. In 2002 its focus has broadened ...

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Fire alarm systems added to TeqTrader's offering
July 2002
The Notifier range of commercial fire alarm systems has joined the TeqTrader stable and will be managed by Notifier technical support expert, Shane Nefdt (photo), based at TeqTrader's Johannesburg offices. ...

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BUSSTOP 2002 to feature wealth of experience from Australia
July 2002
One of the many interesting topics to be presented at this year's Process Industry Networking Conference at Dikhololo Lodge in September is 'Training and development within the process industry'. Steve ...

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TEL.COM 2002 supports Nepad
July 2002
At the Africa Conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Durban recently, WEF President Klaus Schwab urged business leaders to give their full support to Nepad - the New Partnership for Africa's ...

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Monitoring the current level of activity in the bush
July 2002
We have witnessed many changes in our diverse country over the last 10 years not the least of which has been in the manufacturing and process industries. In early June, a team of suppliers of control ...

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AspenTech Africa expands into new premises
July 2002
AspenTech Africa has moved to new premises in Woodmead. This move puts all the Gauteng operations under one roof with up-to-date facilities. AspenTech is a leading supplier of integrated software and ...

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