What is your approach to maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), and plant condition monitoring? Every type of plant is different, and their approach will also be dictated by the staff and engineers available, ...
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Technews Publishing (publisher of SA Instrumentation and Control) is proud to announce that together with the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG), it will organise a series of breakfast seminars in South ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Excerpts from a joint presentation by Intel Security and Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) held in Madrid at the 2015 HPS User Group (HUG) (EMEA).
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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It is with deep sadness that the staff of Technews Publishing heard of the death of our dear friend and much esteemed colleague, Andrew Ashton. Jon (Andrew) Charles Ashton passed away on Thursday, 18 ...
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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. In ...
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