From the editor's desk: Where did the Internet of Things come from? March 2016, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Years before the first message was ever sent over the Internet, English mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing (Enigma) hypothesised a world of smart connected machines all capable of communicating ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Blood Moon rising February 2016, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News At its perigee, the moon appears larger and brighter to observers on earth since the lunar distance has reached minimum inflection in its elliptical orbit around our planet. When this coincides with a ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A fresh new face and a proud relationship January 2016, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Welcome back after the holidays and all the best for 2016 from the team at SA Instrumentation and Control. We trust you are all well refreshed after the December holidays and ready to face the challenges ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Time for a break December 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Another year has flown past and holiday season is upon us again, time to swap the business suit for the bathing variety and enjoy some hard-earned relaxation in the beautiful African sun. It’s been quite ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: 3-D virtual reality offers training and much more November 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News At the recent SAIMC Gala Dinner, after-dinner speaker Pieter Geldenhuys captivated the audience as he described the impact that the technologies of the future will have on our lives. Star of the show ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The day we interviewed the future October 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News A ray of hope cut through the fog of bad news that afternoon at Wits University. Motion Control editor Kim Roberts and I were on campus to interview three teams of third-year engineering students, all ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A day in the life of PI, and SAIMC has a new branch September 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The Southern African Regional PROFIBUS Association will in future no longer be called SARPA, but will be known as PI SA – PROFIBUS & PROFINET International SA. This is in line with international trends ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Manufacturing software and drone technology – two to watch August 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Knowledge is the basis of any manufacturing endeavour. Therefore, when process nous is lost through the bulk retirement or resignation of skilled workers, one of the inevitable results is a drop in productivity.
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Read more...From the editor's desk: Automation at sea July 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The benefits of fully integrated automation have at last found their way into commercial shipboard applications. Automation in naval vessels, with their complex arrays of sensing and weapons technologies, ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A world of possibility waits Technews Industry Guide - Wireless 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In some ways, the hype that surrounded industrial wireless about five years ago actually hampered its adoption in process industry applications. There was confusion about standards, there was confusion ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: All the fun of the Fair June 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News On the morning of 5 May, Africa Automation Fair opened its doors and delivered emphatically on its promise to be the largest most comprehensive showcase of industrial control technology in the southern ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: New technology and the factory of the future May 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News At this year’s Hannover Messe, Festo delivered a futuristic display of imagination to show how innovation inspired by nature could make a difference to the way things might work in the production environments ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: How do you stop a Bloodhound? March 2015, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The latest attempt at the land speed record is set to take place next year at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape. However, the goal of the Bloodhound project is not simply to exceed the current benchmark ...
