By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric In the early days of industrialisation, control systems were primarily mechanical and relied on manual... 

By Obinna Uche, Sales Director, Power Systems Division at Schneider Electric Anglophone West Africa West Africa is prioritising sustainability.  In countries like Nigeria, we are seeing an... 

By: Rudolph Raath - Director at Werksmans Attorneys  Solar energy remains a desirable source of electricity for businesses even "after" loadshedding, but high costs can be prohibitive. The dtic's... 

By: Dwibin Thomas - Cluster Automation Leader at Schneider Electric A recent report published  by ScienceDirect, highlights two storage technologies: battery storage (BS) which is generally... 

By: Rohan de Beer -  End User Sales Director at Schneider Electric Despite the rapid growth of cloud computing, driven by the hype around key factors such as skills, budget and security, the... 

By Anoop Hariparsad, Digital Energy BU Leader, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric The South African solar energy market has certainly gone through an exciting time, marked by surging demand,... 

By: Santosh Sookgrim - Senior Technical Advisor at the South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA). In a province once synonymous with the towering chimneys and billowing smoke of coal-fired... 

By: Professor Johann Strauss - Senior Scientist at the Western Cape Department of Agriculture and Extraordinary Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Stellenbosch University; and... 

By: Teslim Mohammed Yusuf - (Executive for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluations at EWSETA) and Prof. Raj. Naidoo (Head of the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering,... 

By: Morag Evans - CEO of Databuild In South Africa, more than 5,900 accidents in the construction industry were reported for 2023. Of these, 32.3% were ‘struck by’ accidents (produced by forcible... 

By: Chris Campbell - CEO of Consulting Engineers South Africa Achieving gender diversity in South Africa's engineering industry is an ongoing imperative that requires concerted efforts not only... 

By Siveshni Pillay When Smart Mobility comes to a street near you 

By: Bongani Mankewu - Director of the InfraFIN Advisory Institute Financialization or Financial Repression: Political Advocacy to Solve Inequalities 

By Jonathan Duncan, technical director for Africa at Vertiv The future of IT thermal management is here… and it’s a hybrid of air and liquid cooling technologies.  

By Johan Pretorius, MMM Segment Lead, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric  The mining, minerals and metals industry forms a critical part of material supply, all essential as the world... 

By Obinna Uche, Sales Director, Power Systems Division at Schneider Electric Anglophone West Africa The predictive maintenance marketplace is set to grow by at a CAGR of 17% until 2028, according... 

By Kobus Vermeulen, Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric What is the body without a brain?  An empty vessel, uncoordinated and purposeless.  The same can be said about... 

General Manager - Technical, Gift Nyambe For more than fifty years, Air Products, a leading manufacturer of industrial gas, has maintained an excellent safety record, thanks to the safety culture... 

By Sasha Ramjathan, Consumer Packaged Goods Segment Lead at Schneider Electric In terms of volumes produced, South Africa's sugar industry ranks in the top 15 out of about 120 sugar-producing... 

By Thabang Byl, Buildings Segment Lead at Schneider Electric In a time when South African businesses, property owners and managers are transitioning buildings from energy-intensive entities to... 

By Johan Potgieter, Cluster Industrial Software Lead at Schneider Electric Blockchain technology goes by many names; game-changer, disruptive, futuristic and impenetrable.  Names all well-deserved... 

By Suvern Moodley, EcoConsult Business Development Manager – Anglophone Africa Cluster in Schneider Electric Schneider Electric has a comprehensive Consulting Offering to help businesses identify... 

By: Awie Bosman and Scott Havemann Reforms in the South African energy sector, while proceeding glacially, are setting the scene for clean, private power generation. Finally, too, this is opening... 

By Devan Pillay, Cluster President, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric “The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos.... 

By: Jacques de Villiers - Group Head of Supply Chain at Omnia Holdings The key to overcoming supply chain challenges lies in strategic diversity and investment. 

By Ben Selier, Vice President, Secure Power, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric It reads like a paragraph from a Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi novel; high performance computing (HPC) can perform... 

By: Casper Labuschagne - country sales manager, Namibia at Schneider Electric Mark Twain famously said: During the gold rush it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business”. The mining,... 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘There is a huge knowledge gap, generally, around tailings' 

By Chris: Neethling - Channel Sales Manager and Tobi Olorunsola, Offer Manager Home & Distribution Division at Schneider Electric While electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining traction in many... 

By: Lenny Naidoo - Acting Operations manager at Heavy Lift, a division of CFAO Equipment SA South Africa's ports play a pivotal role in the nation's economy, serving as crucial gateways for... 

By Olebogeng Manhe: Chairman of the Gap Infrastructure Corporation (GIC) South Africa is faced with a severe youth unemployment crisis, disproportionately affecting underskilled workers. A key... 

There’s more to design than just making things look beautiful or eye-catching. Design is about solving problems and helping products to serve a purpose. Design projects and jobs today are becoming... 

By: Michael Judin In 2021, Sygnia Limited CEO Magda Wierzycka made a controversial statement at an investment conference that ESG investing has become a mere buzz word and argued that the... 

By Gaopalelwe Santswere, the Deputy President of Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (NIASA) When discussing nuclear power in South Africa, many advocate for a utopian future powered... 

By Teresa Kok, Director of One Energy While grid electricity costs are heading for R4/kwh and more, solar comes in at under R1.00/kWh fixed for the next 15-20 years  

By Elijah Daniel, Digital & Software Business Leader, Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric In an era where technological advancements are rapidly transforming industries, digital twin... 

By Richard von Moltke, General Manager at Static Power, a division of ACTOM With South Africa facing a critical juncture in its energy transition – needing to meet rising demand while reducing... 

By Brighton Mwarehwa: Offer and Marketing Director – Power Systems Business Unit at Schneider Electric Pushing the boundaries of efficiency is an imperative for   production and distribution in the...