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From the editor's desk: The weakest link
Third Quarter 2024, News & events

Lately I’ve been getting an ever-increasing number of articles on cybersecurity in my inbox. It’s easy to put it on the backburner, but there is no doubt that this is a very serious problem that’s not ...
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From the editor's desk: Another use for glass
Second Quarter 2024, News & events

      Data is a rather important part of our lives. This was brought home to me by our New Technology story (see http://www.motioncontrol.co.za/22109r), which covers the crisis we are facing in data storage. ...
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From the editor's desk: The unhuman truth
First Quarter 2024, News & events

It‘s early in the year, and it‘s fun to see what the predictions are for 2024 in the industrial world. One thing for sure is that generative AI will be big. Among all the hype, an over-the-top app that ...
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From the editor's desk: The automation of automation
Fourth Quarter 2023, News & events

Nowadays I’m trying to get my mind around AI, and figure out all the things I can do with it; but there’s another buzzword around, this one is ‘hyperautomation’. Today, it’s not smart manufacturing, ...
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From the editor's desk: Pushing the envelope
Third Quarter 2023, News & events

      Sustainabilty is a huge issue, and our sister magazine, SA Instrumentation & Control has published an industry guide on Sustainability in Manufacturing, which is available at www.instrumentation.co.za...
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From the editor's desk: Where are we headed?
Second Quarter 2023, News & events

      The robots are coming    In this issue of Motion Control we have a fun story on Cassie the robot that broke the world record for the fastest 100 metres by a bipedal robot. Cassie was trained using machine ...
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From the editor's desk: A new disruption
First Quarter 2023, News & events

Artificial intelligence has been around a while, and AI is part of our vocabulary. I seem to remember that in my last editor’s letter I said that new technology comes slowly and then fast. Now I’m wondering ...
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From the editor's desk: Going electric
Fourth Quarter 2022, News & events

I recently took a drive down to Durban and stopped, as everyone does, at the Harrismith Engen. My attention was attracted by a charging station for electric vehicles (EVs) and it made me start wondering ...
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From the editor's desk: Killer science and alternative energy
Third Quarter 2022, News & events

I couldn’t resist watching The World Industrial Reporter’s video on Ten Scientists Killed By Their Own Experiments. Some of them would have deserved the Darwin Award for taking themselves out of the ...
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From the editor's desk: Making sense of the metaverse
Second Quarter 2022, News & events

It wasn’t so long ago that nobody had heard of IIoT. Then the hype began and now it’s an integral part of the manufacturing environment. Recently I’ve been hearing more and more about the metaverse ...
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From the editor's desk: Another dimension
First Quarter 2022, Editor's Choice

      It is with great sadness that I am communicating the news of the passing of my colleague Steven Meyer, who was the editor of our sister publication, SA Instrumentation & Control. It was a privilege ...
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Obituary: Steven James Meyer
January 1957 - January 2022
Fourth Quarter 2021, News & events

It is with deep sadness and shock that we announce the sudden death of SA Instrumentation & Control Editor, Steven Meyer. Steven joined Technews in October 2007 in the position of Deputy Editor. His ...
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