Asset management systems: building on smart instrumentation March 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) Asset management systems combine capabilities to offer human machine interface (HMI) configuration, device management, configuration and calibration, asset monitoring, optimisation and reporting
Ampla selected at Ahold February 2008 ACC selected Ampla, Citect's MES solution, for its modular architecture that provides optimum flexibility and scalability
Expert system applied to milling circuit January 2008 AngloGold Ashanti selected system integrator Systems Anywhere, which, in turn, chose Wonderware Application Server with redundancy facility, realtime Wonderware Historian, ActiveFactory software analysis and reporting tool, InTouch HMI (human machine interface) and a Modicon Quantum PLC
Protean system boosts processes at Impala Platinum refineries January 2008 Accurate accounting is important in all aspects of minerals processing, particularly so in the area of refining. Impala Platinum, the second largest platinum producer in the world, has benefited since ...
Mintek in control at SA's largest ferrochrome furnaces January 2008 The Mintek FurnStar Minstral control system for submerged-arc furnaces is being used to optimise the smelting process on many of South Africa's ferrochromium furnaces. Recent installations include the ...
Scada, standard and savings: it is not on top - it is inside! December 2007 Wonderware's recently-released System Platform 3.0 allows object-orientated application development that provides a solution that is flexible, scalable, robust and secure
Alarm management: a Six Sigma approach December 2007 To understand how best to improve an existing alarm system or introduce a new alarm management program, it is useful to approach the task using the steps outlined in the well-known Six Sigma sequence: define, measure, analyse, improve, control
Software update address OEE December 2007 Wonderware has released version 2.0 of its Equipment Performance Module (EPM) software, a significant update to its software solution for customers needing to track, analyse and improve equipment, line ...
Advanced alarm management system from Adroit December 2007, Adroit Technologies Global competition and the drive for improved operational efficiency have sparked demand for realtime supervisory control and data acquisition (scada) systems that offer advanced alarm management technology. ...
Plant intelligence for scada and MES November 2007, Siemens South Africa Siemens' scada system meets the challenge with extended functions for web-based analyses, ad hoc reports and characteristic value-based evaluations
Wonderware's recipe for happiness November 2007 The project needs were met through the use of intelligent ArchestrA objects for the implementation of recipe management systems, intelligent alarming, historical information and other applications
Microsoft eyes bigger share of BI market November 2007 Microsoft's strong growth in the business intelligence (BI) market has been further boosted with the release this week of its Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, which provides a single point from which ...
Scada has architectural agility November 2007 The recently launched CitectScada V7.0 is designed to provide industrial companies of all sizes with agile control over both their configuration and runtime operations to improve performance. Users benefit ...
OR Tambo systems upgrade November 2007, Rockwell Automation Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) now enjoys better monitoring and control of all its mechanical and electrical equipment at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, following an extensive upgrade ...
Kepware is exclusive licensee of WeatherBug for Automation November 2007, eTX Data Services Kepware Technologies recently announced that it has signed an agreement with WeatherBug, a world-leading source for realtime weather information, for the purpose of licensing weather information through ...
First systems lease? SSE Cape implements BMO deal October 2007, Adroit Technologies Under the leasing agreement, Ekurhuleni purchases its data from SSE on a monthly basis freeing management and staff to focus on their core business
