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CMW Automation
Falcon Crest, 18 Soetdoring Crescent, Vredenburg
Core business offering: Industrial automation and information systems.
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Section - Computers & Software
-Industrial computers
- Compact, embeddable (PC/104, PCI, ISA bus) modules
- Explosion protected
- Flat-panel
- Pentium architecture
- PLC plug-in
- Rackmount
- Wall mounted, embeddable
-Input devices
- Keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) extenders & switches
- Keyboards
- Network interfaces (see I/O table)
- Touchscreens
-Electrical design
-Motion control system design
-Communication medium
- Copper
- Optical fibre
- Radio
-Communication standard
- Ethernet/IP
- Fieldbus
- Modbus
- Other
- RS232/485/422
-Distributed I/O systems
- PC-centric
-I/O blocks/modules
-Mounting methods
- DIN rail
- Panel/rack mount modules
-Operating features
- High temperature
- Intrinsically safe
-Signal modules
- Analog
- Digital
- Mixed
-Applications
- Alarm management
- Batch production
- Data acquisition, analysis
- Link to Windows databases
- Soft PLC
- SPC/SQC
-Datasharing
- OPC clients
- OPC servers
-Operating systems
- Windows CE
Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Barcode systems
- Automated
- Handheld
- Printers
-Ethernet-based systems
-Machine health monitoring
-PC based data acquisition
- automatic data acquisition
- intranet system
-Radio frequency tags
-Recorders
- paperless
-CIM/CAM - Computer Integrated/Aided Manufacturing
-MIS - Management Information Systems
-Monitors
- corrosion
- water quality
-Alarms
-Integration into MES and ERP systems
-Number of I/O points
- 0-64k
- Unlimited
-Number of PLC or I/O drivers
- 16-64
- 64-640
-Operating system
- .Net
- Linux
- Windows 2000
- Windows NT
-Redundancy
-Reports
-Standalone version available
-Cable telemetry
- copper wire
- Ethernet LAN
- fibre-optic
-Radio telemetry
-Remote sensing & control
- cable link
- cellular
- from rotating shaft
- radio link
Section - Miscellaneous Hardware
-19" racking
-Accessories
Section - Networks for Communication & Control
-4-20mA analog loop
-CANbus
-DeviceNet
-EtherCat
-Ethernet
-Interbus-S
-Modbus
-Network analysers
- CANbus
- Profibus
- World FIP
-Profibus
-Remote I/O
-Wireless (for industrial application only)
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Communications
- Fieldbus
- RS232
- RS422/RS485
-Visual display
-Emergency shut-down systems
-Entry level DCS
-Networked controllers
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-AC control
- Closed loop
- Flux vector
- Inverters - 1 phase AC
- Inverters - 3 phase AC
- Soft starter
-Analytics & reporting
-Big data & cloud technologies
-M2M communication
-Analog panel meters
-Digital panel meters
-Displays
- LCD, flat-panel
- Programmable message
- Touchscreens
-Handheld terminals
-HMI
-Keyboards
- Custom
- Desktop
- Flat-panel
- Sealed
-Portable servers
-Analog I/O
- more than 512
-Digital I/O
- more than 512
-Display
-Networking organisation
- Host-to-PLC link
- PLC-to-PLC
- Remote I/O
-Networking
- 20 mA loop
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus
- PLC-to-PLC
- Remote I/O
- RS232, RS422, RS485
-Operator interface panel
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-Programming
- Function block diagram
- IEC 1131
- Ladder diagram (relay logic)
- Logic diagram
- Sequential function chart
-Scan rate less than 1µs per step
-Scan rate less than 1ms per step
-Fibre-optic
-Flow
-Loadcell
-Moisture
-Presence
-Converters
- A-D
- Programmable
Section - Services & Systems
-Contractors
- Factory automation
- Industrial lighting
- Panel builders
- Process control
-Programmers
- DCS
- MES/CIM
- PLC
- scada
-System integration/consulting
- Electrical
- Factory automation
- Other
- Process control
- Scada/DCS/PLC
- Telemetry
-Automotive
-Building management
-Energy management
-Environmental control & monitoring
-Food & beverage
-HVAC control
-Petrochemical
-Pharmaceutical
-Shop-floor data collection
-Water & waste water
| News from CMW Automation: |
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Industry news: |
Elevating analogue signal processing
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I&C February 2026, Electrical Power & Protection, Phoenix Contact
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Precision sensing for water treatment
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Producing solar hydrogen without platinum
I&C February 2026, Electrical Power & Protection
A research team led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has presented a new way to produce hydrogen gas without the scarce and expensive metal platinum. |
Smart and seamlessly integrated I/O upgrade
I&C February 2026, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking, Beckhoff Automation
Beckhoff’s entire portfolio of EtherCAT terminals is now undergoing a technological upgrade while remaining fully compatible with the existing series. |
Schneider Electric accelerates adoption of SF6-free switchgear
I&C February 2026, Electrical Power & Protection, Schneider Electric South Africa
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Senix sensors provide flood warnings
I&C February 2026, Flow Measurement & Control, Instrotech
To create the world’s most sophisticated flood monitoring and forecasting system, the US State of Iowa’s Flood Centre (IFC) uses more than 200 Senix ToughSonic 30 and ToughSonic 50 ultrasonic sensors to measure water levels in streams across the state. |
Five key insights we gained about AI in 2025
I&C February 2026, IT in Manufacturing
As 2025 draws to a close, African businesses can look back on one of the most pivotal years in AI adoption to date as organisations tested, deployed and learned from AI at pace. Some thrived and others stumbled. But the lessons that emerged are clear. |
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