From the editor's desk: Looking ahead Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Welcome to our Sustainability in Manufacturing guide. It’s been a very interesting experience putting it together, and quite an eye opener. There’s a lot going on out there and I hope it’s brought some ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Going electric August 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Welcome to our bumper issue of SA Instrumentation & Control. I’m very excited to officially be the new editor. I have big shoes to fill, but I am looking forward to the challenge. This month we are ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The automation of automation July 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Nowadays I’m trying to get my mind around AI and figure out all the things I can do with it; but there’s another buzzword around, this one is ‘hyperautomation’. Today it’s not smart manufacturing but ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: How predictions change June 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
It’s so good to see that trade exhibitions are back in full swing again all over the world after the many years of uncertainty. Apart from the socialisation and networking that everyone has been missing, ...
Read more...From the Editor's Desk: We’ve come a long way May 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
I still remember my first computer. It was an Apple, and it had a 64K hard drive, and I was so proud of it. Around that time a famous quote attributed to Bill Gates was going around saying “640K ought ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Clean and endless fuel April 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Welcome to another edition of I&C. I feel very privileged to be the interim editor of such a high-quality publication. We have some top drawer contributors − like Michael Brown, Gavin Halse and Lance Turner. ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Do you have a technosignature? March 2023, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Sometimes it can be difficult to get the balance right between having your head in the sand and lying awake worrying about things you can’t control. I am enormously cheered up when I think about some ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A pyramid built upon sand November 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Although it’s often (rightly) said that statistics don’t lie, in my experience they very seldom tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Read more...From the editor's desk: It’s good to be back October 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Exhibiting companies put their best foot forward to take advantage of Electra Mining Africa to network with other people in the industry and show off their wares.
Read more...From the editor's desk: The future is abstract September 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The automation industry is exceptionally good at most things, but not so good at dealing with disruptive change – after all, it is called disruptive for a reason.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Today’s seed, tomorrow’s shade Technews Industry Guide: Sustainable Manufacturing 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Today’s captains of industry did not create the environmental problems we face, but they inherited this poisoned chalice and so it falls upon them to rinse it clean.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Are you shedding me? July 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Our government and its state-owned companies have a well-deserved reputation for either not executing on their plans, or doing so poorly, which often has even more disastrous consequences than having no plan at all.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Come for the sunshine, stay for the loot June 2022, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News
Last year’s announcement by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy that it was raising the registration threshold for self-generating electricity providers from 1 MW to 100 MW was widely lauded ...
