The IIoT edge is evolving January 2020, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In its IIoT context, the edge is traditionally understood to be a kind of half-way point between the plant and the cloud. Physically hard to define, the edge acts as a repository for data collected from ...
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 ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Emerson unveils its digital nexus at Nashville Exchange November 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Lal Karsanbhai, executive president Emerson Automation Solutions, launched this year’s American User Group Exchange with an announcement that positioned Industry 4.0 front and centre in the company’s ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Automation professionals need communication strategy too September 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Catching the eye of a potential customer has become more difficult than ever thanks to the ethos of information promiscuity that defines the 21st century. It’s never been easy to stand out in a crowded ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Edge, cloud or both? June 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In the illusory world of digital transformation, the question of where the applications will best be hosted often triggers a lively discussion. In particular, the cloud vs. edge debate has left many wondering ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Digital transformation is more than just technology May 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News While digitalisation offers new ways to increase operational efficiency, we see many companies battling to overcome the challenges. Particularly, they struggle to get past the ‘pilot’ stage, and are therefore ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: A real case for artificial intelligence April 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News For many manufacturers, the era of mass production is drawing to a close. Changes in consumer behaviour have forced them to rethink their ‘economies of scale’ approaches as they reorganise to answer the ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Predictive maintenance drives asset performance Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The modern trend in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) tactics is to deploy a combination of continuous monitoring and cloud-based predictive analytic solutions. The underlying principle is early ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Yokogawa adds sushi to the IIoT platter March 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News At its 2016 User Group Conference in Johannesburg, Yokogawa whet the local market’s appetite for all things IIoT when it announced the development of a compact, low-cost wireless sensor. Aptly named the ...
Read more...From the editor’s desk: Printing the future February 2019, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News 3D printing – aka additive manufacturing – is the process by which material is solidified layer-on-layer to produce physical objects based on computerised models. While the idea is almost 40 years old ...
