From the editor's desk: Automating the food supply chain now a priority February 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News While the world rests in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, maintaining an efficient food supply chain has become progressively more difficult. Given that social distancing and other health and safety ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Hardwired to survive, can we beat coronavirus in 2021? January 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News According to the Smithsonian, it was around four million years ago that our earliest ancestors broke the evolutionary mould and walked upright for the very first time. Over the course of the next few ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Isolation economy could quicken the pace of 4IR adoption November 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted a problem that the manufacturing industry was already uncomfortably aware of – its traditional ecosystems are too cumbersome to cope with the variety of choice ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: AI in manufacturing and a virtual exhibition booth October 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Artificial intelligence (AI) is seen by many as the core of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), yet its vision is not fundamentally new. The ideas have been around since the mid 1950s, but progress ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Digital transformation or the way of the dinosaur? September 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) recently had its fair share of exposure in South African industry circles. First, the German & EU Chamber’s Working Group Industry 4.0 kicked off a series of online ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Digital twins are the means not the end August 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News One of the more ethereal ideas introduced by Industry 4.0 is that of the digital twin. Actually, the idea of the twin is not new and has been around since NASA introduced the first virtual environment ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The virtual business assistant June 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), Editor's Choice Enter robotic process automation (RPA), a disruptive workplace technology that uses software “robots” to mimic many of the repetitive interactions human beings have with their computers. It performs such ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Loop signatures and digital postage during lockdown May 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In this month’s issue, we publish the first updated version of Michael Brown’s Loop Signature series of articles, the material that forms the basis for his popular control loop training courses.
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Read more...From the editor's desk: AI is manufacturing’s new companion April 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Artificial intelligence (AI) is not new. In fact, the ideas have been around since the 1950s when Enigma code breaker, Alan Turing, discussed the building of intelligent machines in a scientific paper ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Maintenance is the new cool Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News An interesting spin-off of digitalisation in today’s manufacturing plants is how it has elevated the maintenance department from obscurity to the status of primary organisational profit driver. Preventative ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Technology trends for 2020 February 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Since no objective rules exist for determining the next big thing, prophesy-style articles are simply the opinion of their authors, and contradictory views abound. The market for commodities is a good ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The power of 23 December 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Have you ever looked back on a year and wondered how you survived it? For the majority of South Africans, 2019 was such a year. It started benignly enough, cosily wrapped in the blanket of Ramaphoria ...
