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Regulars
Sensors, switches and transducers
4
Smart sensors, smart technology, smart manufacturing
Gerry Bryant, Countapulse Controls
7
Round UP
Analytical instrumentation
12
Better ways to troubleshoot automation and process control loops
Technical information supplied by John Wilson on behalf
of Comtest for the Fluke Corporation
16
Power of light in industrial process management: Spectroscopy
Günter Pinkowski, KROHNE Optosens
17
Round UP
Control systems + automation
20
In Conversation With…
Crown Publications editor, Peter Middleton, discusses Control and Instrumentation (C&I) with ABB
South Africa’s Chief Executive Officer, Leon Viljoen
26
Virtualisation and dynamic IT loads
Bruce Grobler, Schneider Electric
28
Round UP
Drives, motors + switchgear
30
Induction motor rotor bars
Henry du Preez, Consultant
34
Understanding ac motor control models
Norman Maleka, SEW-EURODRIVE
35
Round UP
Energy + enviroFiciency
36
Carbon Tax in South Africa
Silvana Claassen, CES Carbon & Energy Solutions and Justine Bolton, Bright Green Solutions
39
Round UP
Billed as the intelligent eye for
automation, the
Leuze LSIS 400i
Smart Camera Series
is engi-
neered for industrial image pro-
cessing and can be integrated
quickly and at low cost.
Read more
on page 9.
FEATURES:
• Sensors, switches+ transducers
• Analytical instrumentation
• Control systems+ automation
• Drives,motors+ switchgear
• Energy+ enviroFiciency: FeaturingCarbon Tax
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44 CESA
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