System Integration & Control Systems Design


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Versatile CPU designed for remote I/O
April 2001
'Good technology should be transparent to the user'

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PETRO wastewater system to be commercialised worldwide
April 2001
Amandla International, the environmental and technology solutions group, recently announced that it has added the South African-developed PETRO wastewater purification system to its portfolio. The PETRO ...

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Do mines have particularly bad control problems?
April 2001, Michael Brown Control Engineering
In the far distant past when I first started my own business we specialised in automating plants mainly on gold and platinum mines. Even inexperienced as I was in those days, I soon realised that the ...

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New sub-sea diamond mining tool
March 2001
The mining tool was designed to operate to depths of 300m

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Keeping track and cutting losses - Part II of III
March 2001
With production models, a user can define production and cost distribution percentages (which may differ) for multiple outputs throughout the process

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Making sense of e-manufacturing - Part III: What e-manufacturing strategy looks like
March 2001, Rockwell Automation
Manufacturers can achieve the promise of e-manufacturing through design, operate, maintain and synchronise competencies that drive build-to-order processes and nonstop operations

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Not just automation - 'intermation'
March 2001
Throughout the last few years, it has become apparent that customers are becoming more and more reliant on useful and timely production information. The emphasis, which was completely on the availability ...

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Intelligent automation in the food and beverage industry
March 2001
Command of every element of a business, from sensor to boardroom, is an essential feature for today's management. Tying the operation together into one totally integrated information continuum means that ...

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Panel PC used to provide a 24 h multimedia facility in over a thousand locations throughout Taiwan
March 2001
Customers come to convenience stores for consumer products such as foods, drinks, newspapers etc. Normally, they come and go in a short period of time. In order to attract more people and prolong their ...

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Affordable analog and digital I/O card
February 2001
Advantech's PCL-711S, from ProMicro, is an affordable analog and digital I/O card offering A/D and D/A conversion, digital input and digital output. The half-sized card includes eight 12-bit analog inputs, ...

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Annual technology conference for SA system integrators
January 2001
Futuristix-Wonderware's annual SI conference has become a traditional and noteworthy event for professionals serving SA's manufacturing industry. Companies representing approximately a R1bn slice of the ...

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Siemens - systems integration solutions and partnership for all industrial applications
January 2001, Siemens South Africa
Siemens needs little introduction to South African industry, as the company has had a presence here since the early days of electrical power generation. Today, besides being a world-class company, Siemens ...

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Latest comms technology commissioned at smelter project
December 2000
The system provides communication between a basestation and four remote sites capturing readings from measuring instrumentation

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Monitoring of power supply quality
December 2000
Building engineers need a complete picture of how the entire power distribution system behaves under abnormal conditions

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Implications of Microsoft.NET for scada
December 2000, Adroit Technologies
Look for a system where features such as clustering and redundancy are fundamental and built-in, not added by user-defined scripts etc.

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Linear-linked CNC centre keeps up a high production rate
December 2000
Flexline is particularly suitable for automotive manufacturers and their suppliers.

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SI completes Angola instrumentation contract
December 2000
B&W Industrial Technology, a division of Set Point Industrial Technology, has completed an electrical and instrumentation contract in Angola. The project for the upgrade of Unit 650 at Fina Refinery in ...

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System integrator to feature in future issues of SA I&C
December 2000
Over the last year, Inventory Technologies has been involved in a number of challenging projects across various industries. Some of these projects will be discussed in greater depth in forthcoming issues ...

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Open yet integrated enterprise solution
December 2000
System302 was built to connect with the SAP R/3 ERP system so the user's sales department may now know what delivery they can promise for a new order and see the progress of existing orders, facilitating ...

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Global supply chain management - it is all coming together
December 2000
While most manufacturers are focusing on improving the efficiency of their supply chains on a local level, there are many who have to do so on the international playing field while coping with the additional ...

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