Author:Naicker, Dhananathan M; Purdon, Kyla; Ramruthan, KshirDate:Nov 2023Small South African manufacturing companies, endeavouring to benefit from Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies, specifically automation, are restricted by exorbitant costs and the lack of know-how associated with automation. This ...Read more
Author:Kinabo, AB; Mwangam, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:May 2021The state of the art for real-time factory-floor communications consists ofa variety of protocols and technologies that aid in timely data exchange through thnetwork. The majority of these are of a fieldbus type, running on a wired link like ...Read more
Author:Roodt, JH; Koen, HildegardeDate:Jul 2020The world is experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, and developing countries are experiencing it differently than developed countries. Developed countries have an advantage over developing countries in that they adopted industrialisation ...Read more
Author:Malinga, Andries L; Strauss, A; Letaba, P; Pretorius, MWDate:Jun 2022It is said that 4IR requires new ways of conducting business, including planning for technological capabilities. Although technology roadmaps have been widely used for strategic technology planning, constructing and customising one for a ...Read more
Author:Kinabo, ABD; Mwangama, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:Dec 2021The Internet of Things (IoT) has varied applications in industry, where its networks are uniquely characterised by a stringent requirement for reliability. Many technologies, such as PROFINET and EtherCAT, arose to fill this need for reliable ...Read more