Electricity + Control January 2016

CONTENTS

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Control systems + automation 4

XTS enables compact and fast linear machine Stefan Ziegler, Beckhoff When failure is not an option Brian Roth, Antaira Technologies

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Drives, motors + switchgear 16 Monomer and VOC-free unsaturated polyester resin… in modern impregnation machines Jaco de Beer, Tectra Automation 19 Round UP

Earthing + lightning protection 24

Lightning protection… ‘Separation Distance’ concept Trevor Manas, Pontins

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Pressure + level measurement 30

Optimise your thickener efficiency for maximum profitability Su-Anne Willemse, Endress+Hauser

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Energy+enviroFiciency: Focus on standby + back-up 36

Stabilising the power supply at Joburg’s Bara Yen-Hsaing Jason Huang, Outreach Engineering

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Future of diesel-generated power Nalen Alwar, Cummins Power Generation

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FEATURES: • Control systems+ automation • Drives,motors+ switchgear • Earthing+ lightning protection • Pressure+ levelmeasurement • Energy+ enviroFiciency: Focus onStandby+ back-up

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1 Comment 13 Cover story 44 Light+Current 46 A sense of Africa 47 Social engineers 48 Clipboard

Implementation of Beckhoff ’s In- dustry 4.0 and IoT concepts comes with a wide range of requirements, particularly for machine diagnos- tics. Read more on page 13 .

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