November 2003: Feature Articles

• Building an interchangeable test system using IVI drivers
• Cabinet-free automation concepts offer potential savings in plant engineering
• Coriolis flowmeters a major success
• Electromagnetic radiation and human safety
• Flue gas analysis
• It is about time, realtime
• Locally developed software provides automatic reporting for NECSA
• Portable control engine and a universal programming environment
• Radar level gauges for high temperature applications
• Radiological surveillance systems
• Reduce the cost of test with modular ATE
• Scada 101
• Scada systems and security
• Supply chain partnering

December 2003: Feature Articles

• Economy through plug in concepts
• Private, optic superhighway for the entire organisation
• Scada system is coming up roses
• Simplicity in silo level measurement
• South African developments in telemetry

October 2003: Feature Articles

• Compact, 3-mode 110 kW AC drive
• Facing the music of reality in production
• High-performance valve actuator system
• Making a mark in process instrumentation
• Oil regeneration goes mobile
• PLC Review: Circuit Breaker Industries
• Safety relays - pluggable protection in yellow
• South Africa's contribution to the international instrumentation and control industry
• The power behind an exclusive lodge in Serengeti
• Water management system for Grabouw municipality

September 2003: Feature Articles

• Cement giant replaces scada to enhance monitoring and control
• Did you catch the right bus?
• Full-function vision sensor
• Novel concept for networking process control measurement
• Process Automation Suite offers many system integration benefits
• Productivity and efficiency increased at leading biotechnology company
• Radiation monitoring in industry
• Redesigned suite of HMI hardware and software
• Scada on the .NET framework
• Software helps to get to grips with plant efficiency

August 2003: Feature Articles

• New search facility on instrumentation.co.za
• Automatic sludge age control brings great benefits
• Control valves - more than a century of development
• Development trends for industrial temperature measurement
• Ethernet is 30 years old
• Fast, low-level X-ray body scan saves lives
• Reliable level measurement for heavy-duty bulk material applications
• SABMiller upgrades the scada at its Midrand training institute
• SSE completing large telemetry project
• The importance of choice on Profibus and other fieldbus systems
• UPS testing and reporting software

July 2003: Feature Articles

• Can secondary education impart a full understanding on its own?
• Massive increase in SABS levies on earth leakage protection units
• Ethernet goes realtime
• Implats saved R1,5 million using expert system for mill control
• Iscor minimises electric arc furnace downtime
• Large power station in Australia chooses an ICMS
• Local self-supported non-profitable organisations supported by SA scada developer
• Performance under pressure
• Pluggable connection solutions
• Pressure protection and monitoring with alarm event logging
• Thin-film pressure sensor construction
• Version 2.2 of locally developed reporting and analysis tool is released
• A disturbing review of SANS 10142-1: Code of Practice for the Wiring of Premises

June 2003: Feature Articles

• Advancements in AC drives
• Beyond system integration
• COD or TOC determination using SAC - a sum parameter with a future
• Locally developed scada keeps up with technological demands
• Plant-wide telemetry
• Quality control in industrial systems manufacturing
• System engineering company launches its new telemetry system
• Virtual instrument pioneer aids control system design
• What is new and on the horizon in terms of scada

May 2003: Feature Articles

• Consistency management concept in papermaking
• Control systems department hits half century
• Custody transfer system without the need for user application programs
• Daimler-Chrysler chooses handheld diagnostic tool
• Extending IT principles to the realtime world of the shop floor
• Good facilities management enables effective action in a crisis
• Infrared thermometry comes of age for aluminium extrusion
• Intelligent automation of on-off valves
• New universal, three-beam ultrasonic flowmeter is suitable for many applications
• Optimising the simplicity of motor control
• pH measurement in the headbox
• Platinum mine requires premium scada solution
• The road ahead for automation - the Honeywell perspective
• Time saving, flexible data handling on-site
• Who is afraid of control in the field? Conclusion - where control in the field makes sense

April 2003: Feature Articles

• Batch plants have personality
• Factors affecting control valve performance - Part 6: Conclusion - economic results
• Locally developed scada conserves resources for Johannesburg water
• Rationality in machine automation
• Sailing away with Siemens
• Some trends in test, quality and measurement
• Umgeni Water brown field project
• Who is afraid of control in the field? Part 2 - Control in the field

March 2003: Feature Articles

• Beer casks - unplugged
• Cadbury's installs locally developed scada at state-of-the-art production plant
• Control valve supplier for demanding applications
• Critical temperature monitoring using low-cost plant networks
• Electric valve actuators ready for the latest fieldbus systems
• European vote of confidence in local distributor
• Factors affecting control valve performance - Part 5: Valve sizing
• Forthcoming range of industrial PCs: Magelis IPC from Schneider Electric
• Level-sensing instrument measurably increases operating ease
• Maximising grinding mill efficiency with neural networks - Part II
• No more islands of automation
• Paint lab automation with South African scada
• Plant vibration monitoring - Part II: A practical introduction to predictive maintenance
• Pressure sensors and transducers
• Realtime particulate monitoring and logging
• Using a computer as a data logging system
• Vibration testing - what is at stake for SA industry
• Who is afraid of control in the field? - Part I

February 2003: Feature Articles

• Government support behind Siemens initiative
• South African company develops a world-first in instrumentation
• Advanced PLC controls crash tests at Stuttgart
• Crown plug valves optimised for indoor climate control
• Digital valve actuator is flexible and easy to install
• Distributed drive solutions suitable for food and beverage - platform for increased production
• Factors affecting control valve performance - Part 4: Valve type and characterisation
• Local scada developer unveils Version 5.0
• Maximising grinding mill efficiency with neural networks - Part 1
• Plant vibration monitoring - Part I: A practical introduction to predictive maintenance
• Software that enables all systems in a plant to work in harmony
• The impact on installation on network performance
• World's largest producer of electrolytic manganese opts for local scada

January 2003: Feature Articles

• Factors affecting control valve performance - Part 3: Valve response time
• Hard realtime control: moving PLC technology to the PC
• Harmony upgrades technology to reduce downtime
• Industrial applications become entertaining to learn
• Is it a PLC or a PC? A new breed of industrial systems emerges
• More flexibility in automation
• New pH sensor design solves premature failure problem
• Novel approach to control system development
• pH IsFET sensor reveals new niche applications
• Precision pressure and temperature transmitter
• Pressure - the measurement variable for many solutions