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Channel partnerships ensure Philips' success
28 January 2004
In an ever-consolidating marketplace, Philips has established itself as a solid partner and innovative manufacturer that provides products designed around the needs of its client base

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ISO 9000:1994 standards expired
28 January 2004
All accredited certification/registration of quality management systems to ISO 9001:1994; ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9003:1994 expired on 15 December 2003 in preparation for the withdrawal of those Standards by ISO in favour of ISO 9001:2000

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An update on the state of the electronics industry in South Africa - Part I
28 January 2004
In Part I we look at a company that today is known as Aerospace Monitoring and Systems (AMS

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Appointments
28 January 2004, Healthcare (Industry)
Spescom has appointed Jene Palmer as chief financial officer.       Components & System Design has employed Lauren Bull in Sales and Marketing.    Grintek Integrated Defence Solutions (GrIDS) has appointed ...

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Interactive online PCB design courses offered to new users at no charge
28 January 2004, ASIC Design Services, Asset Management, Products & Solutions, Logistics (Industry)
Mentor Graphics is offering three introductory self-directed courses for its PADS PCB design solutions. These include: PADS-Designer, PADS-PowerPCB and PADS-BlazeRouter. The courses are intended to help ...

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Actel introduces solution partners program to simplify designs
28 January 2004, ASIC Design Services
Actel has unveiled its new Solution Partners Program, a cooperative effort between itself and third-party providers of FPGA design services, embedded software and hardware products. The program provides ...

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PROFInet gains Interbus support for unified Ethernet solution
28 January 2004, Phoenix Contact
In a statement at the recent SPS/IPC/DRIVES show in Nuremberg, November, Roland Bent of Phoenix Contact announced that the company will support PROFInet as its preferred Ethernet solution. Interbus technology ...

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Light emitting diodes show rapid growth
28 January 2004
The world lighting market is valued at nearly Euro18-billion per year and is expected to exceed Euro25-billion by 2007, and although general lighting accounts for the lion's share of the market, the most ...

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RFID swings into 2004 with high hopes, observes ABI
28 January 2004
If 2003 was the year the market awakened to supply chain-based RFID, 2004 will surely be the year it readies for school. The two mandates for 2005, set by Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense, pushed ...

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Breakthrough claimed in mobile video communication
28 January 2004, Products & Solutions
Siemens has developed a new video communication standard for mobile phones in cooperation with research organisations and leading high-tech-companies from all over the world. With the currently available ...

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Wireless broadband Internet access a reality
28 January 2004
With the recent announcement of Motorola's new fixed wireless access system, Canopy, residential and small business customers can now look forward to affordable access to the Internet at Broadband speeds ...

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Less than 250 µW enough to power new credit card-sized UHF transponders
28 January 2004, Trolley Scan, Products & Solutions
Trolley Scan announced in Johannesburg that it has crossed another major technical hurdle in the development of small, efficent, low cost UHF transponders - key elements in radio frequency identification ...

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Electronics News Digest
28 January 2004, Electronic News Digest
Xilinx has announced that its radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are playing a critical role in the successful NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars exploration mission. Xilinx ...

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Plugging a translation gap
January 2004, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
People who do not speak the same language find other ways to communicate. Machines and computers cannot. Whether it is a car or a chemical plant, different pieces of equipment are controlled by information ...

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Annual AspenTech conference
January 2004, News
The AspenTech Africa Annual Conference is being held from 25-28 February 2004 at the Wild Coast Sun. The event is sponsored by AspenTech Africa and its Platinum sponsors, Accenture and Microsoft. The ...

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Industries join forces to promote economic growth of Gauteng
January 2004, News
The successful Blue IQ Smart Industry Expo, organised by business-to-business professionals Exhibitions for Africa, closed on 24 October 2003, with a well-attended stand awards function. Exhibition stands ...

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Accurate, portable logging of food temperature
January 2004, Instrotech, Temperature Measurement
Temperature measurement of perishable foodstuff during treatment, transportation or storage is made easy with the new Ebro temperature logger from Instrotech. The logger is the convenient size of an ...

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First exclusive computer theft survey
19 November 2003
The 2003 BSI Computer Theft Survey is said to be the first survey to deal with the specific issues surrounding the theft of computing devices

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Industrial audits identify improvement opportunities
19 November 2003
The main focus of any audit is to identify improvement opportunities and risks within the operation and to establish where the most value can be added utilising the minimum amount of time, effort and resources

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RS Components donates R1,9m worth of equipment to Central Johannesburg College
19 November 2003
RS Components is committed to becoming involved with the upliftment of previously disadvantaged individuals and institutions

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