From the editor's desk: The weakest link Third Quarter 2024, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The unhuman truth First Quarter 2024, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The automation of automation Fourth Quarter 2023, Technews Publishing, 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, ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Where are we headed? Second Quarter 2023, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Going electric Fourth Quarter 2022, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Killer science and alternative energy Third Quarter 2022, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Making sense of the metaverse Second Quarter 2022, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Another dimension First Quarter 2022, Technews Publishing, 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 ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Would you like an NFT? Fourth Quarter 2021, Technews Publishing, News & events
One of my favourite light-hearted books is called Fifty Flippen Brilliant South Africans and Elon Musk stands out as one of the giants. He is one of the most iconic inventors and entrepreneurs of our ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Building the telescopes of tomorrow Third Quarter 2021, Technews Publishing, News & events There are times when the news can get us down. Sadly the Bloodhound project aimed at breaking the world landspeed record at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape has stalled, but there is other magic happening ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Watch this space Second Quarter 2021, Technews Publishing, News & events Space adventures capture our imagination − the thrill of space exploration never goes away − and this issue of Motion Control has a couple of articles relating to the ground-breaking exploits of NASA’s ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The sun in a bottle First Quarter 2021, Technews Publishing, News & events I was recently captivated by the sheer scale of a new technology. On the horizon is the promise of something way bigger than renewable energy – nuclear fusion – with the vision of a clean and endless ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Life after coal Fourth Quarter 2020, Technews Publishing, Editor's Choice Renewable energy has been around for a while. But as attractive as the concept might have been, the hard reality was always that it just did not make economic sense. I remember not so many years ago doing ...
