This year’s Nobel prizes were recently announced. I was fascinated by the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which was awarded for research on quantum dots, and I wondered what they actually are. Well, they ...
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Welcome to our bumper issue of SA Instrumentation & Control. Spring is more than here and there are some interesting things going on in the background. One of these is the quiet revolution in solar. ...
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      Our recent Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry Guide has made me more aware of the issues affecting the future of energy. So when researchers at Korea University in Seoul announced on 22 July that ...
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      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 ...
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      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 ...
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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 ...
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The directors of Technews Publishing are thrilled to announce the appointment of Kim Roberts as the new editor of the official publication of The Society for Automation Instrumentation Mechatronics and Control (SAIMC)
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Published by Technews Publishing, SA Instrumentation & Control is South Africa’s premier ABC-audited information source for instrumentation, systems and automation solutions in southern Africa (www.instrumentation.co.za...
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      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. ...
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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 ...
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