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Why the human firewall is important in the age of phishing and AI
June 2026
Cybersecurity has long been a game of cat and mouse, with attackers innovating just as quickly as defenders can adapt. The most vulnerable point in any organisation’s cyber defence is still the human being behind the screen.

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Overcoming reactive maintenance
June 2026, Rockwell Automation
Dunlop Aircraft Tyres is leveraging technology from Rockwell Automation to optimise maintenance operations, affirming the significant role of digital tools in industrial maintenance management.

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How AI, digital twins, and predictive analytics are reshaping mining’s future
June 2026, Schneider Electric South Africa
For mining companies across sub-Saharan Africa, the competitive gap is becoming harder to close through conventional methods alone. One of the clearest areas of value is predictive and prescriptive maintenance. AI and advanced analytics now allow mines to move from reactive to predictive operations.

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Install and commissioning time cut by 50% thanks to digital twin insights
June 2026, Rockwell Automation
ECM Technologies, a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative and modular low-pressure carburising industrial furnaces, has developed a solution that removes many of the installation and commissioning challenges relating to the development, testing and deployment of large-scale heat treatment plants.

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Real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance in African data centres
June 2026, ACTOM Electrical Machines
Running a data centre in Africa brings many challenges. Traditional maintenance strategies struggle to keep up with these realities. Predictive maintenance offers a different approach.

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Siemens ecosystem strengthens data and AI integration
May 2026, Siemens South Africa
Siemens has announced significant expansions to its Industrial Edge ecosystem, accelerating data and AI integration and releasing enhanced cybersecurity functionalities. These enable a seamless integration of IT and OT environments, optimise processes and reduce operational disruptions.

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Siemens manages shipbuilding process for HD Hyundai
May 2026, Siemens South Africa
Siemens has been selected by HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering as a preferred partner to establish an integrated platform to manage the entire shipbuilding process as a single data flow to help ensure consistency across all its global shipyard facilities.

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Transforming the process industry through digitalisation
May 2026, Endress+Hauser South Africa
By connecting field devices, systems and people, digitalisation creates new opportunities to optimise operations, enhance maintenance strategies and support continuous improvement. As a leading instrumentation provider and major source of process data, Endress+Hauser plays a key role in enabling this transformation.

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The OT operator’s guide to security and uptime on the plant
May 2026, RJ Connect
The article addresses three common questions about industrial network deployment and maintenance, exploring ways to achieve better control and visibility with more efficiency.

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The assets you can’t see are the ones that can shut you down
May 2026
ABEGuardOT is an asset management solution that delivers continuous, non-intrusive visibility across multi-vendor environments, including Siemens, Rockwell, ABB, Honeywell, Schneider Electric, Emerson, GE and Yokogawa, with support for OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Modbus and Profibus.

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Edge I/O NTS and the need for industrial speed
April 2026, Schneider Electric South Africa
One of the most compelling solutions to emerge from industrial automation is Edge I/O NTS, which represents a natural evolution of computing from centralised servers to localised, device-level input/output processing, offering improved speed, efficiency and resilience.

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The next wave of AI-driven process automation
April 2026, Schneider Electric South Africa
As process industries hurtle toward an AI-driven future, four powerful trends are set to redefine automation strategies in 2026: hyper automation, AI-first automation, low code/no code platforms, and advanced process intelligence.

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Huge increase in denial-of-service cyber threats
April 2026
NETSCOUT has released its Distributed Denial-of-Service Threat Intelligence report, revealing sophisticated attacker collaboration, resilient botnets and compromised IoT infrastructure that drove more than eight million DDoS attacks worldwide.

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Sustainable manufacturing
April 2026, ABB South Africa
ABB’s production facility in Shandong province, China is delivering measurable energy and emissions reductions through the implementation of advanced digital energy management and electrification solutions.

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Open automation is breaking legacy chains
April 2026, Schneider Electric South Africa
Industrial automation is now entering a new era defined by open, software-driven principles that are breaking decades of hardware-bound limitations.

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Investing in AI infrastructure for the future of technology
April 2026
Behind the impressive breakthroughs in generative AI, natural language processing, and predictive analytics lies an even bigger story the massive investments being made in AI infrastructure.

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How Bühler SmartMill is shaping the future of milling
April 2026
Digitalisation, automation and data-driven decision making are rapidly transforming the global milling industry. The SmartMill concept is helping millers respond to growing operational pressures, tighter margins and increasing quality and compliance.

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The accelerating cyber threat from DDoS-for-hire services
April 2026
The accelerating growth of DDoS-for-hire services is empowering a broader range of cyber threat actors, intensifying operational risk to digitally connected organisations and enterprises.

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Power, cooling and AI demands push South Africa’s data centres
April 2026
As South Africa’s digital economy accelerates, traditional data centre infrastructure is insufficient to meet the demands of AI growth, data sovereignty and sustainability.

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Four futures for AI: The choices we need to make now
April 2026, Editor's Choice
AI is everywhere and its implications are now structural. The question is no longer whether AI will matter, but what kind of society it will shape.

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