Mar 14, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) may be the last weapon left to recover the billions of rand looted from the South African treasury, allegedly by the Gupta family and their captured government cohorts, That’s according to Dr Duncan Coulter, Deputy Head of Department at...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
THE Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA), as part of the organisation’s 20th anniversary celebration, has announced the launch of the inaugural SAVCA Industry Awards. The annual awards will recognise portfolio companies that have...
Mar 14, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News
EARLIER this year, former President Jacob Zuma signed the new Insurance Bill (now referred to as the Insurance Act) into law. The aims of the bill include increasing low-income earners’ accessibility to insurance products and fostering transformation in the sector....
Mar 14, 2018 | Automation & Robotics, EC Industrial & Business News
PLANT-floor personnel have the difficult task of monitoring and maintaining a growing number of IoT devices on their networks. The new FactoryTalk Network Manager software from Rockwell Automation allows them to monitor the health of their Allen-Bradley Stratix...
Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Import / Export
THE Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber in partnership with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) this week announced that it had launched a new one-year Exporter Development Programme as part of an enterprise development strategy to empower business owners...
Mar 14, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Green Industries & Renewable Energy
By Kevin Norris IN the wake of looming energy price hikes many organisations are proactively considering solar solutions as an alternative. The time to go solar has never been better. However, solar solutions projects required to power an organisation can be complex,...
Mar 14, 2018 | Construction, Civil & Structural Engineering, Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News
UWP Consulting CEO Nonkululeko Sindane (pictured) has praised her team for the years of effort that have culminated in the firm achieving Level 1 Contributor status in the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice, but she concedes that staying there will be challenging. UWP was...
Mar 11, 2018 | Agriculture & Sugar, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage
RESEARCHERS at the Centre of Excellence in Food Security(CoE) are looking into the drought resistance properties of maize, sorghum, soybean and cowpea crops. Maize and sorghum are staple foods for many African countries and are major sources of calories and some...
Feb 28, 2018 | Business Tech, EC Industrial & Business News
By Kevin Cha AI is going to unleash a whole new level of productivity and augment our lives in many ways. We can count on technological innovation to continue at an even more rapid pace than what we’ve seen with previous generations. AI will become like electricity –...
