Another year has flown past and holiday season is upon us again, time to swap the business suit for the bathing variety and enjoy some hard-earned relaxation in the beautiful African sun. It’s been quite ...
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At the recent SAIMC Gala Dinner, after-dinner speaker Pieter Geldenhuys captivated the audience as he described the impact that the technologies of the future will have on our lives. Star of the show ...
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A ray of hope cut through the fog of bad news that afternoon at Wits University. Motion Control editor Kim Roberts and I were on campus to interview three teams of third-year engineering students, all ...
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The Southern African Regional PROFIBUS Association will in future no longer be called SARPA, but will be known as PI SA – PROFIBUS & PROFINET International SA. This is in line with international trends ...
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It is with deep sadness that the staff of Technews Publishing heard of the death of our dear friend and much esteemed colleague, Andrew Ashton. Jon (Andrew) Charles Ashton passed away on Thursday, 18 ...
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Knowledge is the basis of any manufacturing endeavour. Therefore, when process nous is lost through the bulk retirement or resignation of skilled workers, one of the inevitable results is a drop in productivity. In ...
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It is with deep sadness that the staff of Technews Publishing heard of the death of our dear friend and much esteemed colleague, Andrew Ashton.    Jon (Andrew) Charles Ashton passed away on Thursday, ...
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The benefits of fully integrated automation have at last found their way into commercial shipboard applications. Automation in naval vessels, with their complex arrays of sensing and weapons technologies, ...
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In some ways, the hype that surrounded industrial wireless about five years ago actually hampered its adoption in process industry applications. There was confusion about standards, there was confusion ...
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The subject projects of this year’s scada review are each a worthy reflection of the effort put in by the respondent end-users, SIs and vendors.
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It is with deep sadness that the staff of Technews Publishing heard of the death of our dear friend and much esteemed colleague, Andrew Ashton.    Jon (Andrew) Charles Ashton passed away on Thursday, ...
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On the morning of 5 May, Africa Automation Fair opened its doors and delivered emphatically on its promise to be the largest most comprehensive showcase of industrial control technology in the southern ...
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