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Action Industries
5 Rodger Place, Kloof, Durban
Core business offering: Software solution provider focused on improving its clients’ efficiency utilising easy-to-use technology. The company has developed local manufacturing execution systems (MES), IIoT asset monitoring and energy efficiency systems to provide companies with cost-effective live insight into production and asset processes.
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Section - Computers & Software
-Communication standard
- Ethernet/IP
- Modbus
- Other
- RS232/485/422
-Applications
- Alarm management
- Asset management
- Data acquisition, analysis
- Link to Windows databases
- Manufacturing execution systems (MES)
- MRP, tracking, business
- Operator interface
- Programming languages
-Datasharing
- OPC clients
-Language
- C, Pascal, etc
- MS Visual Basic
- OOP (e.g. Visual C++)
- PLC languages
-Network communications
- NetBEUI
- TCP/IP
-Operating Systems
- .Net
-Operating systems
- Windows 2000
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95/98
- Windows CE
- Windows NT
- Windows XP
Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Machine health monitoring
-PC based data acquisition
- automatic data acquisition
- intranet system
- presentation/analysis software
-Standalone data loggers
-MES - Manufacturing Execution Systems
-MIS - Management Information Systems
-MRP - Manufacturing Resource Planning
-Production management systems
-Hygrometers
-Monitors
- gas
- moisture
-Cable telemetry
- Ethernet LAN
-Radio telemetry
-Remote sensing & control
- cable link
- cellular
Section - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation
-Performance monitoring
- Energy
- Installation
- Lubrication
- Process/production
-Asset related
- Asset management software for intellectual assets (engineering related)
- Enterprise asset management software (EAM)
-Calibration, configuration & adjustment
- Networkable HART device calibration/configuration
-IoT driver & OPC software
-Maintenance
- Computerised maintenance management (CMM)
- Decision support
-Optimisation & efficiency
- Asset optimisation
- Energy optimisation
- Expert systems
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Analytics & reporting
-Artificial intelligence
-Asset/calibration management
-Big data & cloud technologies
-Industrial IT & networking
-Interoperability HW/SW
-M2M communication
-Smart sensors
-Specialist consulting services
-Wireless network/service providers
-Displays
- LCD, flat-panel
- Programmable message
-Handheld terminals
-HMI
-Analog I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
-Digital I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
-Networking
- 20 mA loop
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus
- PLC-to-PLC
- Proprietary data bus
- Remote I/O
- RS232, RS422, RS485
-Programming
- High level (C, Basic, etc.)
- Logic diagram
-Pressure-electrical transducers
-Current
-Flow
-Gas
-Humidity
-Light intensity
-Mass
-Metal detectors
-Moisture
-Radiation
-Thickness
-Vibration
-Heat flow monitors
-RTDs (Pt 100, Ni)
-Temperature switches
-Thermistors (PTC, NTC)
-Thermocouple extension cables
-Thermocouples (Type S, T, etc)
Section - Services & Systems
-Programmers
- MES/CIM
- PLC
- scada
-Project Management
-System integration/consulting
- Factory automation
- Information systems
- Other
- Production management
- Quality control
- Scada/DCS/PLC
- Telemetry
- Warehousing
-Automotive
-Batch production
-Energy management
-Environmental control & monitoring
-Furnace control & management
-HVAC control
-Injection moulding
-Laboratory control & management
-Materials handling
-Packaging and Labelling
-Petrochemical
-Pharmaceutical
-Power generation & distribution
-Shop-floor data collection
-Sugar
-Textiles
-Transportation
-Water & waste water
| News from Action Industries: |
Live insight into production processes
March 2019, IT in Manufacturing, Action Industries
Live Monitoring is a local South African software house that develops MES as well as asset monitoring and energy efficiency systems to provide a competitive edge through cost effective live insight into ... |
Solutions for production efficiency
October 2018, IT in Manufacturing, Action Industries
Live Monitoring is a local South African software house that develops MES as well as asset monitoring and energy efficiency systems to provide a competitive edge through cost effective live insight into ... |
Proudly South African efficiency monitoring systems
March 2015, IT in Manufacturing, Action Industries
Local South African company, Live Monitoring, offers three different software based platforms for condition monitoring, namely: * LiveMon - a versatile asset monitoring platform. * ProduMax - an efficiency ... |
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