December 2014: Feature Articles

• Celebrating a century of global solutions and services
• Avoiding latency in a substation automation network
• Ceramic flowmeters for the chemical industry
• Embedded virtualisation in process automation systems
• Intelligent building ­controls in the Park Hotel
• Predictive condition monitoring at power plants
• The emperor is not completely naked

November 2014: Feature Articles

• Reliable industrial networks for a smarter future
• Aluminium rolling mill relies on sliding gate valves
• Beckhoff’s Scientific Automation for data acquisition
• Choosing the right pressure gauge for the task
• Evolution of the MRO industry landscape
• Protection for the fieldbus where it is really needed
• Rajant Corporation’s kinetic mesh networking solution
• Reducing collisions on manned forklifts
• Siemens at WindEnergy 2014
• Trends in asset management and maintenance
• Valves at high sea
• Virtualisation in the collaborative process automation system

October 2014: Feature Articles

• The right pressure transmitter for every industry
• A new era in process visualisation
• Changes in HMI technology
• Diaphragm seal systems for vacuum processes
• PlantStruxure PES shines at Xperience Efficiency
• PlantStruxure PES solution for Tshwane wastewater plant
• Protection for the ­environment
• Treating security like safety

September 2014: Feature Articles

• L-Gage LE550 laser measurement sensors
• Beckhoff’s Scientific Automation for energy monitoring
• Industrie 4.0
• Koeberg’s plant status system
• Siemens Sipart PS2 valve positioned as multitasker

August 2014: Feature Articles

• Pressure: VEGABAR Series 80 all round pressure instrumentation
• Automation of the brewing process
• Building the future of South Africa one robot at a time
• Concurrent dual-radio transmission for zero packet loss
• Energy management lessons from Europe
• Metso keeps the noise down
• Reduced set-up times thanks to automated actuators
• Schubert & Salzer boost efficiency at BMW
• Wonderware Winter Breakfast report back

July 2014: Feature Articles

• Harnessing the power of connection
• A powerful argument for infrared windows
• Industrie 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things
• S instead of SOS
• The biggest big data

Technews Industry Guide - Wireless 2014: Feature Articles

• Expert tips for planning an industrial wireless network
• Honeywell’s OneWireless network
• Improve reliability with essential asset monitoring
• Kepware technology optimises energy efficiency
• Valero’s multi-faceted wireless project
• Wireless closed loop control
• Wireless monitoring solution at Optimum Coal
• Wireless system for Shell petrochemical plant

June 2014: Feature Articles

• Maximum drive efficiency, minimum power consumption
• Ethernet convergence of isolated fieldbus systems
• Instrumentation for Generation Y
• ISA100.11a and WirelessHART: Convergence and co-existence
• Reliably determine actual fieldbus availability
• The Automation Revolution according to Mike Caliel
• The re-invented high-bay warehouse

May 2014: Feature Articles

• Endress+Hauser brings it all together
• ABB’s infrared absorption technology
• Building the industrial Internet of Things
• Environmentally friendly fire suppression solutions
• Sartorius’ digital weighbridge load cell
• WirelessHART – the easiest way to connect to a process control system

April 2014: Feature Articles

• Control system modernisation at Constance Water Works
• Enhanced rescue procedures in industrial applications
• Modicon M580
• Providing context for the emerging industrial Internet of Things
• Remote Operations Centres put it all together

March 2014: Feature Articles

• X-Change 2014: Wonderware and Foxboro start the industrial automation revolution.
• ARP 0108: What you need to do
• Building management solutions that fit
• How to select a cellular RTU for water and wastewater applications
• Petrocity keeps Kenya moving ­forward
• Pyrogen achieves SABS approval
• Smart combustion from Emerson
• Virtual environment adds flexibility at Grootegeluk

February 2014: Feature Articles

• Industry 4.0: Ingredients from Beckhoff
• ARP 0108: What you need to know
• Real-time analytics for industrial batch ­processes
• Revolutionary changes to process information intelligence
• SNMP on network computers
• Timely contextualised plant-level information to the mine
• Vega breaks new ground with vibrating level switch

January 2014: Feature Articles

• The future of affordable water
• Achieve next-generation ­connectivity
• Factory Widgets does it for ­productivity at ­ArcelorMittal
• PlantPAx provides flexibility in mining solution
• Power saving frequency inverters for pumps and fans
• Temperature measurements remain critical for process control
• Two industrial worlds have merged