From the editor's desk: Join élancommunications and Technews on the tour to Nuremberg September 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Held annually in Nuremberg at the end of November, the SPS IPC Drives Expo is billed as the world’s biggest event for designers, manufacturers and end-users of automation and drives technologies. To quote ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: From Pinto through profit August 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News We have a packed issue again this month with plenty of useful industry and technology related articles. Jim Pinto puts forward a case for why Biotech will reach an inflection point in the next decade ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Endress+Hauser's trump cards and other highlights May 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Endress+Hauser, in conjunction with the SAI&C graphic design team, have come up with some lovely innovation for this month’s cover concept. To promote the latest advances in its extensive range of flow ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Metrics that matter April 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In a recent blog post, Automation World editor in chief, Gary Mintchell, commented on the relevance of findings in the contemporary report ‘Pursuit of performance excellence: business success through ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Not another same-old, same-old year March 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The latest Control magazine list of top automation companies is out. Siemens, ABB and Emerson retain their positions in the top three by global ranking, while in North America; it is Emerson, Rockwell ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: I/O management a highlight in this issue February 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In his column this month, Jim Pinto reviews the automation industry of the past and prognosticates on some of the possibilities that could evolve in the future. “Today’s factories and process plants are ...
Read more...From the Editor's Desk: 20 years of Rockwell Automation Fair January 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Coming off the back of a solid set of Q4 fiscal results, Rockwell Automation celebrated its 20th Automation Fair at the McCormick convention Centre in Chicago on 16 and 17 November last year. Over the ...
Read more...Emerson Exchange 2011 does the business in Tennessee December 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News Nasville’s Opryland resort provided a close-knit venue for this year’s annual Emerson User Conference. Process Management president, Steve Sonnenberg, opened the show with a keynote address that spoke ...
Read more...SAIMC - volunteers, members and communication all key November 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), Analytical Instrumentation & Environmental Monitoring SAIMC president, Johan Maartens, is someone committed to the goal of improving the value offered by the organisation to its members and patrons. In his communiquéé this month, he takes a critical look ...
Read more...A feature on robotics parallels with a collaborative marketing approach October 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The feature on robotics in this issue covers a variety of aspects, including two different lines of thinking. One, the more classic approach, is that of a robot working cooperatively with a human handler ...
Read more...DDoS attacks, continuous EtherCAT and everything in between September 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News The feature on robotics in this issue covers a variety of aspects, including two different lines of thinking. One, the more classic approach, is that of a robot working cooperatively with a human handler ...
Read more...Faster, cheaper, better August 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News During an SAI&C webinar we hosted in July, technology forecaster Jim Pinto predicted that this would be the mantra of the successful manufacturing companies of the future. At first it sounds like an oxymoron, ...
