Feb 1, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry
DATA, a natural by-product of automation processes, can be transformed into insights that unlock an additional level of productivity. That’s according to Rockwell Automation USA Chairman and CEO, Blake Moret who said it is not enough to know how to meet your...
Feb 1, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Transport & Logistics
THE Hino 300 and 500 models with automatic transmission are making a positive impression on Riaan Harmse, who is the fleet logistics controller for Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), the largest Coca-Cola bottler in South Africa. “We haven’t had many Hino...
Feb 1, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News, Electrical & Electronics, ICT In Industry
DIGITAL transformation of energy management company Schneider Electric has won the ‘Hyper-convergence Innovation of the year category at the SVC Awards 2018, for the second year in a row. Following last year’s award for its Micro Data Centre solutions, the 2018...
Jan 30, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Business Tech, ICT In Industry, KZN Industrial & Business News, Transport & Logistics
THE growing maturity of intelligent automation technologies offers financial services companies an opportunity to drive more value for their customers and employees – and without the widescale destruction of jobs many people fear will accompany the rise of the...
Jan 23, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry, Transport & Logistics
GETTING to and from work is expensive and time-consuming and gridlock is problem in most of South Africa’s big cities. This is the problem Gugulethu Mhlanga and Simphiwe Kuse set out to solve with a clever app that they hope will transform the lives of thousands of...
Jan 14, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Automotive, Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, ICT In Industry, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling
TRANSNET Port Terminals (TPT) has rolled-out an automated Service Instruction Entry (SIE) system which uses a portal and/or electronic data interface (EDI) to all its Durban Automotive customers, abandoning the manual processing of paperwork for the export, import and...
Jan 14, 2019 | Automation & Robotics, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, ICT In Industry, KZN Industrial & Business News
ROCKWELL Automation provided a ControlLogix-based SIL II compliant burner management system solution for Sappi’s Chemical Recovery Furnace. In a first for Rockwell Automation South Africa, its SSB division successfully upgraded the burner management system (BMS) at...
Dec 5, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry
THERE has been a lot of buzz about the ‘future of work’ recently. There is major concern over who will become redundant and how this will happen – and rightly so. Wits University recently conducted a review of research on the topic and found that most authors studying...
Nov 22, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, ICT In Industry
THE potential of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the construction and consulting engineering space, as an important element of a fully-integrated approach to project delivery, was showcased at an event entitled...
