December 2017: Feature Articles

• Accurate groundwater level measurement – hydrostatically
• Digital transformation and collaborating robotics
• Innovating in the process industry with PLM
• One cable automation from Beckhoff
• Visualisation of plant information

November 2017: Feature Articles

• Kick-start the organisation’s IIoT/Industrie 4.0 journey
• ­WirelessHART’s application potential
• Be safe by monitoring hazardous areas
• Cables that rotate and turn
• Configuring secure wireless LAN access to the machine network
• Soteica Visual MESA solution for thermal power plants
• Stay safe with SICK Automation

October 2017: Feature Articles

• The future is digital
• Clever switching devices cover all application ranges
• Endress+Hauser ready for the IIoT
• Every drop counts
• Integrated automation system ­optimises wire binding
• New technology automates Modbus routing setup in gateways
• The IoT.nxt big thing
• The potential value of manufacturing analytics
• Tomorrow’s digital technologies take flight at Aerosud Aviation

September 2017: Feature Articles

• Robust and talented linguist with brains
• Designing packaging machines with PC-based control and XTS
• Egoli Gas saves time and energy through automated network monitoring
• How to calculate an intrinsically safe loop approval
• Measurement technology combined with telemetry
• New approaches to an old objective
• Pneumatics or electrics
• Ready for the real thing
• Securing industrial automation control system networks

August 2017: Feature Articles

• Bluetooth technology brings safety and convenience to process instrumentation
• Fast and flexible format changes paired with high speed
• Float-based level measurement is ideal for fermenters
• Is Africa ready for smart manufacturing?
• Time-sensitive networking is not another fieldbus

July 2017: Feature Articles

• Helping to maintain a safe and hygienic operation
• Nick Denbow’s European report: E+H invests and ABB acquires B+R
• Wireless gas detection

Technews Industry Guide: Industrial Internet of Things 2017: Feature Articles

• TwinCAT OPC UA: standardised communication with information modelling from controller to cloud
• Digital disruption is challenging the status quo
• Endress+Hauser’s instruments are ready for the IIoT, are your processes?
• If there is no significant business benefit IIoT projects are not going to happen
• In IIoT, Physical Systems Intelligence is the key to delivering ROI
• Industrie 4.0 – training for the factory of the future
• Integrating the IIoT
• Opportunities and strategies for integrating OT and IT with the PI System
• Scada systems vs IIoT solutions
• Smoothing out interoperability issues in smart factories
• The role of the Chief Digital Officer in industrial manufacturing

June 2017: Feature Articles

• Adroit Technologies launches Adroit 10 Smart SCADA
• A diamond in level measurement
• Fire detection and suppression in mines
• How will digital manufacturing impact on IT outsourcing?
• Keeping a close eye on the plant
• Looking for a needle in a haystack
• Machine module enables quick product changeovers
• Nonstop IP surveillance with an optimised industrial Ethernet network
• Single-use diaphragm valves simplify biotech manufacturing
• Why and how pressure gauges should be calibrated
• X-Change 2017: Reviewing tomorrow

May 2017: Feature Articles

• The right wavelength for every plant
• A digital technological revolution drives innovation at Festo
• An intelligent system arrives
• Could Industrie 4.0 attract foreign direct investment into Africa?
• Five key advantages of IO-Link
• Functional safety (SIL) basics for process control
• pH/ORP measurement for reverse osmosis
• WiFi? Why not?

Africa Automation Fair 2017 Preview: Feature Articles

• Message from the organiser

April 2017: Feature Articles

• Every drop counts
• ARC Advisory Group Industry Forum
• Flotation level measurement techniques explained
• Foxboro’s FoxCal technology offers multiple calibration curves
• Wireless systems for large I/O intensive industrial applications

Technews Industry Guide: Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2017: Feature Articles

• Maintenance products facilitate efficient manufacturing
• Advanced maintenance maturity model increases reliability, reduces costs
• Diesel generator monitoring systems
• EAM software – what business leaders need to know
• EtherCAT measurement technology modules

March 2017: Feature Articles

• See the future of industrial ­software at X-Change 2017
• Integrated control for power plants
• Key IIoT platform selection criteria
• MESA Africa and where it is ­headed in the fourth industrial era
• Next-gen automation services ­support operational excellence and reduced project cost
• Small cause big effect

February 2017: Feature Articles

• High-end measurement technology from Beckhoff
• CIP keeps food and beverage plants working efficiently
• Control systems vendors see opportunities in cloud-based IIoT data services
• EtherCAT P: EtherCAT with integrated power supply
• Fighting corrosion: a guideline
• How to build a cloud IoT system around a manufacturing process
• Safety systems for wrap-around packaging applications
• Valve technology without stress

January 2017: Feature Articles

• V-port ball sector rotary control valve
• Are automation standards ready for the IIoT?
• Endress+Hauser guarantees an efficient CIP process
• Which IT skills will be needed to accelerate a career in manufacturing?
• Yokogawa Operations and Production Management suite