Scada Review: Citect June 2000 Reviewer details
Name: Louis Cotzer
Company: Eskom Matla Power Station
Telephone: (017)612 6402
Product details
Vendor: Xycom SA
Product name and version: Citect Version.5.21
Telephone:(011)462 ...
Self optomising control system uses fuzzy logic to raise productivity June 2000 The first local 'OCS' optimising control system has been successfully installed at Impala Platinum Mine by Svedala South Africa, to optimise mill grind control. The company installed one unit successfully ...
Asset management strategies for the food industry May 2000 Food manufacturing challenges "return on assets" continues to be the key concern for small and large, local and multinational manufacturers in a broad range of market segments such as snack foods, corn milling, poultry, beef, vegetable and fruit juices and other products.
SA scada increases presence in UK food and beverage market May 2000, Adroit Technologies Ushers Brewery of Trowbridge, UK, used the addition of a new mash conversion vessel as an opportunity to also implement a new control system; South African developed Adroit 4.1. Used extensively in the ...
Scada for wet end chemistry May 2000, Adroit Technologies Wet end chemistry in South Africa is at world-competitive levels, thanks to Stanger-based manufacturer of ionic demand titrators, Lechintech.
With 85% of the local market share, it can be said that paper ...
Scada with 450 or more I/O April 2000 Xycom SA used the Electrex 2000 exhibition to entertain and show the visitors to the stand a really good time and to create an awareness of the various products that they distribute. Citect the scada ...
Using technology to clean wool April 2000, Rockwell Automation
The wool scour industry - the sector responsible for removing grease and other foreign substances from raw, greasy wool - is under pressure, as the fibre faces increasing competition from synthetic ...
User group conference a 'spectacular' success April 2000 From 26 to 29 March, the cream of southern Africa's System Integrators and their end-users attended what was described by some as "one of the sub-continent's major events for discrete and process manufacturers". ...
The viable end of the 'food chain' April 2000 The old adage "running lean and mean" could not apply more aptly than in the processing of waste. This is an industry characterised by low value-add and yet of critical strategic importance in a sub-continent ...
RAID subsystem April 2000 Advantech's RAID (redundant array of independent disks) subsystem provides more reliable and larger capacity data storage than a single hard disk drive. Two kinds of rack mount RAID models are available ...
A new paradigm for efficient and cost-effective gold mining April 2000 Avgold's Target Mine has awarded Futuristix-Wonderware System Integrator, Advanced Software Technologies - Abraxas (AST-A) the contract for the development, integration and implementation of the mine's ...
Robust photo-electric sensors April 2000, Gail Norton Instrumentation Telco’s photoelectric sensors have a number of key features:
p Very small physical outline.
p Immunity to contamination.
p Insensitive to impact and vibration.
p Easy alignment.
p Wide range of applications.
The ...
Keeping in touch at SAB Rosslyn:one click away from information March 2000 The detail of the supervisory standard extends to:
*ontrol system tag naming, description and units of measure.
*Supervisory display layout, hierarchy and control. p Access control.
*Alarms and ...
Anchored to an information-rich future March 2000, Rockwell Automation Commissioned in August 1999, the new dryer is huge, easily dwarfing the site's three existing dryers. Dryer 5 has a processing capacity of five million litres of whole milk per day and can produce up ...
Mining Industry: asset management and optimisation crucial to survival March 2000 Success or failure in the volatile precious metals mining industry is dependent on a variety of strategies covering the micro management of the costs of every aspect of the mining and raw materials processing ...
Homegrown automation shows its abitities at Botswana salt pan. March 2000, Adroit Technologies Not even the remotest of locations on the African continent are immune to the age of automation.
Proof of this reality can be found in the sophisticated South African developed supervisory control and ...
Brick manufacturer runs a lean plant using local scada software March 2000, Adroit Technologies Witbank brick producer Tor Bricks is operating at full capacity to satisfy continued strong demand for its high-quality clay face bricks.
Considering the recent closure of rival brick makers, together ...
Scada software producer acquires advanced telephonic dialler for Windows. March 2000 Wonderware has acquired the Scadalarm advanced telephonic dialler for Windows product from Fluid Solutions.
Scadalarm is a Windows-based tele-phonic alarm dialling system that can link directly to Wonderware's ...
