Why not just do it right in the first place? May 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News In response to our control loop special, reader Richard Compére believes that loop optimisation is often a case of too little, too late. He has observed increased divergence between the disciplines involved. ...
Read more...Control loop bonanza issue March 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News If there is one thing that should have become quite clear to anybody reading this magazine over the last half-decade or so, it is that there is a general lack of `feel' for what happens in control loops ...
Read more...Changing the demographics of the industry February 2005, News With South Africa having come through a particularly tumultuous period of change, there exists an awkward imbalance in the demographics of training and experience within the population. On the one hand ...
Read more...Accomplish something this year January 2005, News Wow, it is 2005 ... I am sure that there are many out there like myself: - We kind of grew so used to writing nineteen hundred and something for the year that it was almost surreal to imagine ever writing ...
Read more...Engen Refinery responds November 2004, News SA Instrumentation & Control thanks Engen Refinery for its response to the invitation extended to Sapref, Engen and Sasol to give their position on safety issues. See 'Safety measures at Engen'. Four ...
Read more...A snail race October 2004, News Quoting from our last issue: 'Bhopal 20 years on - could it happen here?' Graeme Bell wrote:
In May 2004, SA Instrumentation & Control contacted the press offices at Sapref, Engen and Sasol. We offered ...
Read more...Issue highlights and software wars August 2004, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News This month's issue Staying with the smart new style that we began using in the last issue, we have a tidy magazine that includes the usual good stuff. Some highlights include: * Valve and Automation's ...
Read more...New-look magazine, platinum and aerogels July 2004, News An even better SA I&C! Regular readers of SA I&C will notice something different about the look of the magazine. Our publisher (ever-looking for ways to make the magazine read better) tasked the artists ...
Read more...Oil is not well June 2004, News A year or few back, just to see what I would find, I did a casual search on Google for 'when will oil run out'. What I discovered was moderately disturbing. Of course we all know that the oil reserves ...
Read more...The national poll - a secure data acquisition application May 2004, News Looming oil crisis?
Do current oil reserves foretell a bleak future for the world's economy - is there an impending crisis that will affect us all? A study of recent literature on the subject does not ...
Read more...No automatic control on the quality of new homes March 2004, News Michael Brown has for quite some time been sounding the alarm that there is a chronic lack of appreciation for the importance of properly setting up the control systems of plants. I have experienced another ...
Read more...More wondrous material discovered way back February 2004, News In the spirit of my last waffle on structural materials (Duralumin and Alclad) we shall have a look at an incredible material that has been around a long time - and very few know much about it. In 1932, ...
Read more...Winning with the Internet Age January 2004, News As you might already know, Technews, the publisher of SA Instrumentation & Control, has been publishing all its magazines on the Internet for the last four years. This has resulted in a wealth of archived ...
