Automation Anywhere Expands Operations to Africa – office to be set up in Johannesburg: Automation Anywhere Expands Operations to Africa. Sriram Narayanan appointed regional director to lead operations across Africa and ROW Johannesburg, Africa – April 1, 2019 – Automation Anywhere®, the global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), announced the expansion of its operations …
SICK Automation increases product traceability for tobacco manufacturer: The Lector 620 Professional image-based barcode reader ensures the plant has technologically up-to-date unit level traceability on all product elements. This helps achieve increased product traceability and improved quality control. SICK Automation South Africa (SICK), one of the country’s leading sensor solution suppliers for industrial applications, recently …
New Photoelectric Sensor from Rockwell Automation Built for Demanding Applications: High-performance sensor offers long-distance detection and increased environmental tolerance for industries such as food and beverage, material handling and packaging The new Allen-Bradley 42AF RightSight M30 photoelectric sensor from Rockwell Automation is the latest addition to the smart sensing portfolio. Built with improved environmental resistance …
SICK Automation increases product traceability for tobacco manufacturer: The Lector 620 Professional image-based barcode reader ensures the plant has technologically up-to-date unit level traceability on all product elements. This helps achieve increased product traceability and improved quality control. SICK Automation South Africa (SICK), one of the country’s leading sensor solution suppliers for industrial applications, recently …
Building Automation Firm’s National Award for Best Contributor to Energy Efficiency: BA Systems Trustee, Michael Straton Photo: Alan Straton The Electrical Contractor’s Association for South Africa (ECA SA) showcased Port Elizabeth based Building Automation firm, BA Systems, in their October 2018 Magazine, Electrical Contractor. BA Systems scooped the ECA SA Presidential Award as the Best Contributor …
Brighter, More Flexible Tower Light Now Available from Rockwell Automation: The Allen-Bradley ControlTower 856T 70 mm Tower Light system incorporates brighter LED illumination and a broad offering of visual and sound technologies encased in a 70 mm-diameter housing. Tower light accommodates seven modules in same stack for ease of use and selection Rockwell Automation has …
Feed the dog and close the door with an open source home automation system: As voice assistants, smart bulbs, and other devices increasingly become household staples, more people than ever are bringing smart technology into their homes. But the bewildering assortment of products on the market can present challenges: Remembering which app to use and …
RS Components expands HMI portfolio for industrial automation applications with Pro-face products: Pro-face devices include touch-screen PLCs and HMIs for use in Industrial Internet of Things-based remote-access systems Photo: RS Components Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 January, 2018 – RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has added …
Re-imagining beta testing in the ever-changing world of automation: Fundamentally, beta testing is a test of a product performed by real users in the real environment. There are a number of names for this type of testing—user acceptance testing (UAT), customer acceptance testing (CAT), customer validation and field testing (common in Europe)—but the basic components …
6 open source home automation tools: Editor’s note: This article was originally published in March 2016 and has been updated to include additional options and information. read more: Opensource.com Jason Baker Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Sailing in Africa ?
Top 5: Brewing beer, home automation basics, and more: In this week’s Top 5, we highlight brewing beer, home automation basics, software standards, Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi, and LinchPin for the cloud. Top 5 articles of the week 5. LinchPin: A simplified cloud orchestration tool using Ansible Launched in late 2016, LinchPin now has a …
Why can't we have the Internet of Nice Things? A home automation primer: Off-the-shelf, consumer home automation has fallen into a pretty standard pattern. You have a smart device (like a lightbulb or door lock) that talks to some kind of hub that you put on your network. It communicates with a cloud service owned by …
Top 5: 10 tips for IoT home automation, Configuration management tools, and more: In this week’s Top 5, we highlight tips for home-IoT projects, a deep dive into configuration management, tips for getting started with WordPress development, a successful middle school Linux program, and a brief introduction to animation with CSS and JavaScript. Top 5 …
Top 5: 11 project management tools, 5 home automation tools, and more: In this week’s Top 5, we highlight Top 11 project management tools for 2016, 5 open source home automation tools, a My Linux Story, an interview with Benjamin Kerensa on Glucosio for diabetics, and an event report from last weekend’s LibrePlanet. Top 5 articles …
5 open source home automation tools: The Internet of Things isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a rapidly expanding reality. read more Opensource.com – Jason Baker Supporting Open Source.