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Check out Dataweek’s new-look website
29 January 2020, Technews Publishing, Editor's Choice
Our technical design elves have been locked away in our basement for months, improving the visual design and functionality of the Dataweek website.

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From the editor's desk: A fresh start, but a sad farewell?
29 January 2020, Technews Publishing
A couple of years ago, not many people had heard of Yekani. The company bought a stake in the well-known East London-based satellite decoder maker, Vektronix, and subsequently acquired it in its entirety. When ...

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Actum Group merges its brands under one roof
29 January 2020, Actum Electronics
Over the years, Actum Group has been built through partnerships, collaborations and acquisitions of leading companies with a long history and rich legacy in the industry. These companies include Actum ...

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Company profile: ETION Create
EMP 2020 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Etion Create
ETION Create is an original design manufacturer (ODM) that has been in operation for more than 25 years. Originally known as Parsec, the company was founded in 1993, focusing on the design, development ...

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Company profile: Laser Stencil Technology
EMP 2020 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Laser Stencil Technology
Since its inception in 2004, Laser Stencil Technology has grown into a prominent figure in the South African electronics manufacturing industry. Having been involved in circuit board manufacturing using ...

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Company profile: Repro Supplies
EMP 2020 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Repro Supplies
Repro Supplies is a systems integration company that specialises in turnkey systems for the mining industry, industrial, traffic and LED markets, both locally as well as internationally. The company was ...

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Company profile: Saflec
EMP 2020 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Saflec
Saflec was founded in 1980 as an owner-managed company, designing, manufacturing and marketing security and industrial metal detectors. The staff complement consisted of a handful of key people, but grew ...

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From the editor's desk: 4IR requires people, too
EMP 2020 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, Technews Publishing
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a manifesto was put forth entitled ‘The Universal Purpose of a Company in the Fourth Industrial Revolution’. To be honest, it reads pretty much ...

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From the editor’s desk: Getting charged up for the new year
25 November 2019, Technews Publishing
The Springboks’ Rugby World Cup triumph in Japan couldn’t have come at a better time for South Africa, as the country was in desperate need of a jolt of positive energy going into the festive season. ...

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Battery Technologies Conference 2019
25 November 2019, Editor's Choice
Batteries are a critical enabler of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powering technology in products from laptops and handheld devices to electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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Boom, doom and gloom, or something completely different?
25 November 2019, Technews Publishing, Editor's Choice
As the end of 2019 looms, it’s time to look ahead to what next year might have in store, and reflect on the year gone by. And what a year it’s been.

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Actum Group remains resilient and optimistic for 2020
25 November 2019, Actum Electronics
Running a profitable business in South Africa is not for the fainthearted. With the national treasury downgrading this year’s growth forecast from 1,5% to 0,5%, and state-owned entities like Eskom negotiating ...

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Additional renewable energy development zones proposed
25 November 2019
The second phase of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) energy in South Africa proposes three additional Renewable Energy Development Zones (REDZs) for wind ...

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Locally developed electronic circuit builder for students
25 November 2019, K Measure, Editor's Choice
K Measure, creator of the award-winning Seebox engineering education solution, has created a new innovation to enable quick and easy electronic circuit-building. The SeeBlocks electronic circuit creator ...

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Clearing the Static:Topic 9: Time to audit your ESD environment
25 November 2019, Actum Electronics
Now that we are nearing the end of the year, it is a good time to audit your existing static control products and procedures. The first line of defence should be your antistatic floor, since this is the ...

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Winning hackathon entry curbs cell tower battery theft
25 November 2019
The fourth annual TADHackJHB was held at MTN’s head office in Fairland, Johannesburg, on 12 and 13 October, with a cell tower protection app emerging as the winner. The theme for the 2019 global TADHack ...

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Additive manufacturing developments powered by RAPDASA
1 November 2019
Over the past two decades, South Africa has seen significant advancements in Additive Manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing. As a key player in enabling and developing the fourth industrial ...

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From the editor's desk: Or, we could make smartphones
23 October 2019
The last decade or so has been a running litany of misery for the South African electronics manufacturing industry. There’s no point naming any names, but those readers who’ve been around for a while ...

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Win a Microchip LoRaWAN evaluation kit
23 October 2019
Dataweek readers stand a chance to win a SAM R34 Xplained Pro evaluation kit for LoRaWAN development (ATSAMR34-XPRO) from Microchip Technology. The kit is a hardware platform used to evaluate the ATSAMR34 ...

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