From the editor's desk: Is additive manufacturing poised to go mainstream? March 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News As digital manufacturing technology pushes its way further towards the production floor, additive manufacturing (3D printing) is emerging as a viable option to complement the more traditional methods ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: PID controllers and smart production line configuration October 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In his article this issue, control loop expert Michael Brown tackles the subject of PID controllers, and how these are most definitely not all created equal. For many automation engineers, proper tuning ...
Read more...From the Editor's Desk: RFID in track and trace applications September 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Like a few other technologies of the fourth industrial era, radio frequency identification (RFID) has been around for some time. Now though, thanks to falling costs and improved reliability, it is fast ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Manufacturing CIOs must confront new challenges July 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Disruption is driving change in many areas and the manufacturing industry is no exception. Globalisation has increased competition, which is forcing manufacturing companies to find new ways to reduce ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Bryan Baxter talks cybersecurity August 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News This month, SA Instrumentation and Control welcomes Bryan Baxter to the editorial fold. Bryan, a 20-year IT Industry veteran, recently joined Wolfpack Information Risk where his extensive knowledge of ...
Read more...Foreword: Automation and OPC UA key to sustainable manufacturing Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News According to the USA’s National Council for Advanced Manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing is the creation of products through processes that are non-polluting, conserve resources, and are economically ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Google partnership brings OT and IT closer together June 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The recent announcement by Siemens and Google Cloud that the two will cooperate to develop AI-based solutions for manufacturing combines the best of both the OT and the IT worlds. As an industrial automation ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Quantum sensors might soon be commercially available May 2021, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In 1927, at a conference in Brussels, a new theory burst onto the scene. The literati of the day’s theoretical physicists had gathered to hammer out an accurate description of the nature of matter on ...
Read more...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 ...
