December 2005: Feature Articles

• Two workshops for 2006
• Cyber Junkyard 2005
• Ethernet as a single solution
• HACCP and the food industry
• Maximum demand limiting for high rollers
• SAIMC Annual Banquet
• South Africa is running out of electricity
• Temperature control solutions handled effectively - and personally
• Valve design aspects for critical petrochemical applications - Part 1
• Varispeed celebrates its 21st birthday
• Yokogawa: 90 years

November 2005: Feature Articles

• Help celebrate SA I&C's 21st birthday ... and win!!
• South Africa is running out of electricity
• Mittal Steel ensures delivery of critical data
• New inverter has everything under control
• Nuclear power is here to stay - Part 2
• SA scada for Tanzanian sugar mill
• Smallest colour vision sensor
• Who is watching over your capital asset portfolio?

October 2005: Feature Articles

• Lubrication and Wear Management Conference
• Designing for safety
• Manufacturing solutions for operational excellence
• Migration motivation - a business case template
• Nuclear power is here to stay - Part 1
• PACs - a new type of control system
• Sewage network scada upgrade

September 2005: Feature Articles

• Automatic partial stroke testing prevents disasters
• Moving towards broad-based black economic empowerment
• Prevention is cheaper than cure
• Proximity sensors for metal detection
• SAPICS conference
• Thermographic maintenance
• Tribo-electric dust sensor characteristics
• World's first integrated safety controller

July 2005: Feature Articles

• A complete flow solution
• Agility in manufacturing
• Enhanced buses boost PC-based measurement
• Ethernet networks in mining automation
• First Viznet application launched in South Africa
• Improvements and expansion for EDDL: Part 1
• Industrial network switches
• MES promises significant ROI within six months
• Optimisation through high-speed DAQ
• Reliable Profibus communication
• Reliable silo levels with a PC network

August 2005: Feature Articles

• Anti-surge control valve solutions
• Enhanced reliability for final control elements
• Extensive range of level solutions
• FPGA-based engine control system
• Implementing a new control system
• In-line viscosity measurement
• Realtime performance management boosts profitability
• Seeing and identifying gas clouds
• Success in collaborative manufacturing

June 2005: Feature Articles

• Ethernet in road traffic control
• Is MES the answer for competitiveness in industry?
• New generation scada and MES strategy
• Remote monitoring and control of CGAs
• Scada on the high seas
• Scada review 2005: Adroit Technologies
• Scada review 2005: Futuristix
• Scada review 2005: GE Fanuc Automation
• Scada review 2005: Rockwell Automation
• Scada review 2005: Siemens
• Scenes from the Process 2005 Automation&Information Technology Exhibition
• The principles of dust emission monitoring: Part 2

May 2005: Feature Articles

• Controlling Australia's largest power station
• Data management in the automotive industry
• Drying compressed air with refrigerated dryers
• Efficient blow-off applications
• Reconfigurable control and acquisition system
• The principles of dust emission monitoring: Part 1
• Using thermal imagers - the basics

April 2005: Feature Articles

• Data acquisition with USB
• Historian software extending the capabilities of HMI/scada
• Office IT vs plant floor automation
• Release 3.06 of production control system
• Selection considerations for a modern pH electrode
• Some insight into Microsoft's role in the I&C industry

February 2005: Feature Articles

• Southern African scada and MES conference
• 2005 - time for a software reality check
• Accreditation and certification: not the same
• Bloem Water increases efficiency with locally developed scada
• Central control system for SALT (Southern African Large Telescope)
• Fail-safe control valves in case of fire
• High performance radar level transmitter
• High-slip braking software for variable speed drives
• Intelligent control technology reduces idle time
• KWV improves asset management for world-class production
• Millions of identical hamburgers per day
• SAIMC professional development and training

March 2005: Feature Articles

• Why is control loop optimisation virtually ignored?
• Effective asset management - the ultimate value driver
• Infrared temperature measurement in plastic extrusion processes
• Multimeter safety
• SABMiller upgrades from legacy systems at three breweries
• Security instrumentation for chemical companies

January 2005: Feature Articles

• Cost and energy savings for Assmang
• Electromagnetic flowmeter rated as a reference device
• HMI that is as smart as it looks
• Home-grown South African PLC
• In-line mineral quantifier test rig completed
• IT and automation are like oil and vinegar
• Monitoring emissions in parts per billion
• Online measurement of the surface roughness of steel strip
• SA celebrates 100 years of safe mine hoisting
• Software solution enables the realtime enterprise
• Tri-gas analyser for hydrogen-cooled generators