October 2006
Siemens
The Cyber Junkyard automation competition encourages tertiary institutions to take part and construct a fully automated machine from scratch, to meet a given project requirement. Once again, Siemens Automation and Drives sucessfully co-ordinated a lot of 'Cyber' and by no means anything destined for, or from, a junkyard.
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Regular Features
News and products
Cables and Cable Accessories
Water trees - no longer a cause for cable replacement
M Kuisis, Martec
Don't discard failing cables, CURE them...
Control Systems and Automation
Profinet @ Work
H Makete, Siemens
The many ways to kill a problem just got easier
Control of a fluidised bed drier
W Delport, Samancor Middelburg FerroChrome and K van der Merwe, CSense Systems
Proper control tools save money
HMI with communication protocols for PLCs
P Bouwer, Shorrock Automation
More than just what you see
Earthing, Lightning Protection and Industrial EMC
Using a field mill to detect an imminent lightning strike
MD Grant and K Nixon, University of the Witwatersrand
Milling around doesn't always get you anywhere
Identifying a harmonic offender in an interconnected power system
WC Stemmet and G Atkinson-Hope, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Finding that offending source
Level Measurement and Control
Advances in multi-function weighing electronics
D Howcroft, Instrotech and Digital Process Measurement (DPM)
On the level with a universal device
Fortified wines rely on high-tech measurement instrumentation
J Skowaisa, Vega
Staying out of the drink
Can radar work for even the most difficult applications?
A Konigs, Krohne Messtechnik
Better and better detection
