Electricity + Control October 2019

CONTROL SYSTEMS + AUTOMATION Product News

Innovating Africa’s Industries Endress+Hauser South Africa and its sponsorship partners launched the InnovatingAfrica’s Industries (IAI) conference at the end of August 2019, at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. This new industry forum was created by Endress+Hauser in partnership with other key industry players to collaborate on addressing the challenges faced by the process automation industry with regard to new technologies and innovation. Other key players that sponsored the event and participated in it included, among others, Andritz, DRA Global, GEA, Krones, PSA Global, Rockwell Automation andWEC Projects. Among the challenges identified are: - Rapidly changing trends in the industry - IIoT and digitalisation - The need for new skills and knowledge - Increasing production in demanding conditions - Access to real-time plant information - Ensuring safety and environmental compliance.

topics related to the industry. Key issues addressed included: smart mining with big data, digital transformation and the evolution of digital automation in the mining industry, digitalisation and smart cloud solutions in the food and beverage industry, the journey to digital water, biological wastewater treatment technology and the preservation of water quality, among others. Exhibition stands presented a further opportunity for delegates to learn more from the participating companies. In addition, some case studies were presented as examples of how innovative solutions can empower the process industries. Francois Theron from Clover, for example, shared a presentation on engineering management challenges and Saziso Ngida from ABInBev unpacked end- user expectations for seamless integration. For more information contact Endress + Hauser. Tel: +27 (0)11 262 8000, email: info@za.endress.com

The IAI conference was the first of its kind to be hosted in Johannesburg and sought to present current and future technologies to prepare today’s industry managers for the changing industrial environment. The conference was organised in three parallel streams addressing different industry sectors – food and beverages, water and wastewater, and primaries and metals. Different speakers in each session shared their expertise on various

The Endress + Hauser team at the IAI Conference and Expo.

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