System Integration & Control Systems Design


Latest Articles

CIP design, planning and installation
February 2020, Morton Controls
A complete system for a company specialising in the transport of liquid food.

Read more...
Machine-level block I/O devices
February 2020, Siemens South Africa
Concepts for new machinery and plants are becoming increasingly distributed. Control cabinets are getting smaller, or even disappearing completely, and I/O systems which used to be deployed in the control ...

Read more...
DRH ensures clients remain at the forefront of bulk measurement with Bindicator range
December 2019
DRH Components was started in Durban in 2015 when Rob Hare and Kay Goutham retired from CHI Control (now Eaton), after four decades of service. The company has offices in Durban and Pretoria. Venture ...

Read more...
All-rounders EHL handles projects from conceptualisation to completion
December 2019, EHL Consulting Engineers
EHL is an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM), and engineering, procurement and construction services (EPCS) company that began operating in 1980. Manager of automation at EHL, ...

Read more...
Oven control by Hybrid Automation
December 2019, Hybrid Automation
Hybrid Automation was approached by one of its clients, a leading South African FMCG company, to provide an automated solution for an existing plant in the factory. Being a popular confectionary manufacturer, ...

Read more...
PC-based control decorates plastic lids and containers
December 2019, Beckhoff Automation
In-mold labelling (IML) is ideally suited to meet today’s customer requirements in the plastics industry, especially in the packaging segment.

Read more...
Project-based learning challenges the modern engineering student
December 2019
Projects that inherently challenge students to use innovative design thinking often involve interacting with an unknown process or device. Students are encouraged to understand the unknown through theory, ...

Read more...
FieldEcho: the future of integrated IO-Link technology
December 2019, SICK Automation Southern Africa
Integrated IO-Link technology that enables full data accessibility and transparency across all platforms is here with the FieldEcho from SICK Automation. IO-Link is an increasingly used manufacturer-independent ...

Read more...
AI module improves industrial production
December 2019, Rockwell Automation
Industrial workers can now use the data from their equipment more easily to predict production issues and improve processes with their existing automation and control skill set. The new FactoryTalk Analytics ...

Read more...
Tailor-made intralogistics solutions harness scalable control and drive technology
January 2020, Beckhoff Automation
RO-BER Industrieroboter of Kamen, Germany, develops automation solutions based on area and linear gantry robots for intralogistics. These solutions, including the new Twin-Gantry robot system, are characterised ...

Read more...
Festo’s digitalised product world
January 2020, Festo South Africa
HoloLens, mobile phones, 3D printing and smart glasses – the gadgets that captured the public imagination in the blockbuster movie ‘Back to the Future’ over 30 years ago have now become a reality, all thanks to digitalisation.

Read more...
Electromechanical motion products for the machines of today
January 2020, Parker Hannifin - Sales Company South Africa
Engineers from the older generation will remember the days when machine design had to be based around catalogued electromechanical actuators.

Read more...
Siemens contributes to Coca-Cola Beverages Africa’s digitalisation vision
January 2020
The Nairobi Bottler’s Embakasi Plant based in Nairobi, Kenya, a fully owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), received a Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) training rig from Siemens Digital ...

Read more...
A good combination for the primaries and metals industry
November 2019, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Endress+Hauser?s measurement devices for flow, level, pressure, temperature and liquid analysis.

Read more...
Four key factors to consider when choosing devices for the control cabinet
November 2019, RJ Connect
Drawing from over 30 years of experience in providing reliable products for industrial control cabinets, Moxa has identified the following four key considerations for choosing the best control cabinet ...

Read more...
Saryx helps Transnet achieve ROI through scada modernisation
November 2019, Saryx Engineering Group
Saryx Engineering has set the bar high in terms of scada modernisation and standardisation. So much so that the company won ‘Best Control & Information Implementation’ in recognition of a project with ...

Read more...
Standardisation of ABInBev automation on three Tanzanian breweries
November 2019, Process Dynamics
Process Dynamics has a long history within the brewing industry. The company has completed a number of projects for SABMiller and when the company was bought by Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABInBev) in 2015, ...

Read more...
VinFast deploys Siemens technology to deliver cars ahead of schedule
November 2019, Siemens South Africa
VinFast, Vietnam’s first volume car manufacturer, has successfully produced its first cars ahead of schedule using Siemens’ portfolio of integrated software and hardware. By deploying its portfolio, Siemens ...

Read more...
The complexity of water management in mines
October 2019, Endress+Hauser South Africa
Industries across the globe are encouraged to reuse water as much as possible, and therefore a 'zero liquid discharge' policy has already been implemented by various companies in different sectors.

Read more...
PC-based control platform optimises water treatment product dosing
October 2019, Beckhoff Automation
Clean water is vital in both consumer and commercial areas, including numerous industrial applications, such as mining, petroleum refining and groundwater remediation, in addition to residential applications

Read more...



<< First   < Previous   Page 6 of 42   Next >   Last >>