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Karma Instrumentation & Control
Block A, Unit 3D, Wild Fig Business Park, 1494 Cranberry Street, Honeydew
Core business offering: Supply and installation of all categories of process control and monitoring equipment including on small to medium size projects. Calibration is offered together with accredited SANAS partners on temperature, pressure flow, and load cells. Repairs on PLCs, VSDs and related equipment, including training on all products.
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Section - Computers & Software
-Electrical design
-Instrumentation design
-Plant design
-Applications
- Alarm management
- Artificial intelligence
- Asset management
- Batch production
- Calibration management
- Data acquisition, analysis
- Direct control
- Drivers
- DSP (digital signal processing) software
- Facility optimisation
- Fuzzy logic
- Operator interface
- Programming languages
- Soft PLC
- System simulation/PID tuning
-Network communications
- DSCNet
- Fieldbus
Section - Data Acquisition & Remote Control
-Ethernet-based systems
-In-transit temperature/event
-Logging printers
-PC based data acquisition
- A-D conversion boards
- automatic data acquisition
- data acquisition cards
- distributed data acquisition
- intranet system
-Portable data collection terminal
-Recorders
- chart paper
- events
- paperless
- strip chart
- videographic
-Standalone data loggers
-EDMS - Engineering Document Management Systems
-ISO 9000 management systems
-Hygrometers
-Monitors
- chlorine
- density
- moisture
- vibration
-Integration into MES and ERP systems
-Number of I/O points
- 0-1024
- 0-32
- 0-512
- 0-64k
- Unlimited
-Number of PLC or I/O drivers
- >640
- 0-16
- 16-64
- 64-640
-Operating system
- .Net
-Standalone version available
-Cable telemetry
- Ethernet LAN
- fibre-optic
-Remote sensing & control
- from rotating shaft
- infrared (IR)
Section - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation
-Handheld/portable
- Hardwired point-to-point HART device calibrator/configurator
- Hardwired point-to-point Profibus device calibrator/configurator
- Network capable HART device calibrator/configurator
- Wireless HART device calibrator/configurator
- Wireless Profibus device calibrator/configurator
-In-stream/in situ
- General purpose data-logger
- Thermal imaging/thermography
- Vibration/balance
-Sampling/ex situ
- pH
-Bench
- Instrument power supply
-Handheld/portable
- Data-logger
- Multimeter
- Thermal imager
- Thermometer
- Vibration/balance
-Maintenance
- Calibration
-Calibration, configuration & adjustment
- Networkable HART device calibration/configuration
- Networkable Profibus device calibration/configuration
- Networkable proprietary device calibration/configuration
- Point-to-point HART device calibration/configuration
- Wireless HART device calibration/configuration
Section - Miscellaneous Hardware
-Signal
- High temperature
- Temperature compensated cable
-High temperature
-Thermocouple
-Instrument power supplies
-Uninterruptible power supplies
-Boxes - electronics
- Metal construction
- Plastic construction
-Cabinets
- Explosion protected
- Free-standing
- Wall mount
-Enclosures (special)
- Corrosion proof
- Environmentally protected
-Sub-rack systems
-Thermal control
- Heatsinks
-Reed relays
- Dry-contact
-Relays
- DIN-rail mount
- Plug-in
- Solid state (photo MOS)
- Solid state (zero-crossing)
-Switches
- Intrinsically safe
- Key-lock
- Rocker
- Rotary selector
-IS barriers, signal isolation
-Key-lock switches
-Light curtains
-Protection relays
- Over/under voltage
- Over-current
- Phase balance
- Phase sequence
- Pump protection
- Thermal overload, motor protection
-Rope-pull switches
-Safety limit switches
Section - Networks for Communication & Control
-4-20mA analog loop
-CANbus
-ControlNet
-Ethernet
-Foundation Fieldbus
-HART
-Modbus
-Network analysers
- CANbus
- ControlNet
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus Foundation
- HART
- Modbus
- Profibus
- RS232/422/485
-Profibus
-Remote I/O
-RS232/422/485
-WirelessHART
- field devices - adaptors
- field devices - controllers
- field devices - transmitters
-Wireless sensor networks
Section - Process Control & Manufacturing Technologies
-Electric
-Limit switches
-Pneumatic
-Valve position transmitters
- Valve positioners
-Control valves (applications)
- Globe - sanitary
- Hygienic
- Safety release
- Steam conditioning
-Control valves (type)
- Ball
- Butterfly
-Eccentric plug
-Expanding plug
-Globe
- double seated
- split-body
- three-way
-Lined valves
-Manifolds
-Pinch-type sleeve
-Rotary control valves
-Shut tight valves
-Sliding/knife gate
-Solenoid
-Weir-type diaphragm
-Communications
- Fieldbus
- RS232
- RS422/RS485
-Functionality
- Adaptive gain
- Auto/self tuning
- Cascade control
- Logic
- Maths/calculations
- Pattern/profile
- PID/PD
- Ratio control
- Scaling of I/O
-Inputs
- 0/4-20mA
- mV/V
- RTD
- Strain gauge
- Thermocouple
-Number of loops
- >16
- 1-16
-Outputs
- 0/4-20 mA
- 0-5V
- mA/mV
- Pulse
- Relay contact
-Panel size (mm)
- 24x48
- 48x48
- 48x96
- 72x72
- 96x96
-Visual display
-DCS
-Entry level DCS
-Networked controllers
-PACs - Programmable Automation Controllers
-AC control
- Closed loop
-DC control
- Speed control
-Flowmeters (application)
- Batching
- Partially filled pipes/channels
-Flowmeters (type)
- Clamp-on, non-invasive
- Coriolis
- Custody transfer
- Differential pressure (DP)
- Doppler ultrasonic
- Magnetic/electromagnetic
- Mass
- Open channel, flume, weir
- Orifice plate, flow nozzle
- Pitot tube
- Positive displacement
- Solids
- Thermal dispersion/calorific
- Turbine
- Variable area
- Venturi tube
- V-notch
- Vortex
- Wedge
-Monitors/indicators
-Potable water meters
-Regulators
-Switches
-Totalisers and correlators
-Explosion proof
-Flameproof
-Intrinsic safety
- 4-20 mA set-point stations
- Batch controllers
- Isolating interface units
- Sensors
- Solenoid valves
- Totalisers
- Transmitters - flow
- Transmitters - level
- Transmitters - pressure
- Transmitters - temperature
- Valve positioners
-Pressurisation
-Boiler sight glasses
-Capacitive & conductive
-Float-operated
-Loadcell
-Microwave, guided & radar
-Optical, laser
-Pressure/hydrostatic
-Rotary paddle
-Tank gauging
-Thermistor / thermal
-Tilt switch
-Ultrasonic
-Vibrating fork
-Batching
-Belt scales
-Coriolis
-Density
-In-motion
-Loadcell
-Alarm indicators
-Analog panel meters
-Digital panel meters
-Digital process indicators
-Displays
- Bar graphs
- Display wall (control room)
- Touchscreens
-HMI
-Analog I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
-Digital I/O
- 1-16
- 17-64
-Display
-Multiprocessor
-Networking
- 20 mA loop
- Ethernet
- Fieldbus
- PLC-to-PLC
- RS232, RS422, RS485
-Operator interface panel
-Actuators
- Linear
- Rotary
-Cylinders
- Double acting
- Positioners
- Single acting
-Pressure/vacuum switches
-Tubes & fittings
-Valves
- Check
- Flow
- Gauge
- Isolation
- Manifolds
- Pressure
-Control transducers
- Displacement/position transducers
- Synchros & resolvers
- Tacho generators
- Tilt transducers
-Flexible shafts
-Rotary encoders
-Differential pressure transducers
-Instrument manifolds
-Manometers
-Pressure gauges/indicators
-Pressure switches
-Pressure-electrical transducers
-Regulators
- Rupture disk
- Self-acting back pressure
- Self-acting pressure reducing
-Capacitive
-Colour mark
-Inductive
-Infrared
-Laser
-Limit switch
-Machine guard
-Magnetic
-Photoelectric
-Ultrasonic
-Anemometers
-Current
-Density
-Displacement
-Flow
-Humidity
-Level
-Light intensity
-Loadcell
-Mass
-Moisture
-Thickness
-Vibration
-Converters
- A-D
- D-A
- I-P, P-I
- mV/current
- Power (VAR, F, kWh, etc.)
- Programmable
-Isolators
-IR non-contact
-IR thermal imaging
-Panel-mount indicators
-Pyrometers (IR non-contact)
-RTDs (Pt 100, Ni)
-Temperature switches
-Thermocouple extension cables
-Thermocouples (Type S, T, etc)
-Thermowells
-Counters
- Batch
- Mechanical
- Panel mount
- Rail mount
-Timers
- Analog
- Digital
- Panel mount
- Rail mount
-Conductivity
-Control signal
-Differential pressure
-Flow
-Humidity
-Level
-pH
-Pneumatic
-Pressure
-Resistance
-Temperature
-Universal, programmable
-Vibration
-Wireless
Section - Services & Systems
-Consulting engineers
- Project management
- Systems specification
-Contractors
- Electrical
- Factory automation
- Maintenance
- Panel builders
- Process control
- System wiring/installation
-Programmers
- DCS
- PLC
- scada
-Project Management
-System integration/consulting
- CIM/CAM
- Electrical
- Factory automation
- Process control
- Scada/DCS/PLC
-Chemicals
-Food & beverage
-Furnace control & management
-Mining & metals
-Petrochemical
-Pulp & paper
-Rubber & plastics
-Sugar
-Water & waste water
Section - Test, Measurement & Calibration
-Analysers
- Chlorine
- Density
- Dissolved oxygen
- Flue gas
- On-line process
- Oxygen
- Particles
- Suspended solids
- Viscosity
-Chambers (environmental/temperature)
-Conductivity
-ORP
-pH
-pH handheld
-Pyrometers
-Redox measurement
-Turbidity meters
-0/4-20 mA loop simulators/calibrators
-Deadweight testers
-Flow calibrators
-mV simulators/calibrators
-Pressure simulators/calibrators
-RTD simulators/calibrators
-Strain gauge simulators/calibrators
-Thermocouple simulators
-Insulation testers
-Multimeters
-Ohmmeters
-Humidity
-Pyrometers
-Tachometers
-Thermal imaging
-Thickness, wall, plating
-Vibration/machine health
- Non-contact/ultrasonic
-Viscosity
| News from Karma Instrumentation & Control: |
Tough liquid analysis probes
Africa Automation Fair 2017 Preview, Analytical Instrumentation & Environmental Monitoring, Karma Instrumentation & Control
The longlasting Turtle Tough liquid analysis probes are impervious to ingress and are totally sealed for life. These superior probes resist process contamination and are completely maintenance free. Visit ... |
Atlas Industrial Systems/Karma Sensors awarded Alidex E&I installation contract
December 2015, News, Karma Instrumentation & Control
Atlas Industrial Systems, the holding company of Karma Sensors, was recently awarded the contract for the installation of electrical and instrumentation equipment, cable racking and cabling for Tongaat ... |
Karma Sensors is flying
September 2014, News, Karma Instrumentation & Control
Karma Sensors, a division of Atlas Electro-hydraulic Systems, recently introduced its wide range of process control and automation products at a special event held on board a Boeing 747 at the SAA Museum. ... |
Industry news: |
Loop Signature 30: Nonlinearity in control loops (Part 1)
October 2025, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking, Editor's Choice, Michael Brown Control Engineering
If nonlinearity occurs it means that if one is to carry on controlling with the same response to changes in load or setpoint, then the tuning of the controller will also need to be adjusted to meet the new conditions. |
PC-based control regulates innovative dehumidifiers
October 2025, Fieldbus & Industrial Networking, Beckhoff Automation
Swedish company, Airwatergreen is breaking new ground in the dehumidification of air in industrial buildings and warehouses. The patented CVP technology reduces energy requirements and ensures an indoor climate that prevents corrosion and mould growth. PC-based control from Beckhoff regulates this innovative process. |
From the Editor's Desk: The human side of automation
October 2025, News, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control)
Spring is here, holidays are getting closer and there’s a new energy in the air. With this in mind, in this issue we cover the very important topic of ECSA registration. SAIMC’s COO, Gerhard Greeff, ... |
Controlling pneumatics via IO-Link
October 2025, Pneumatics & Hydraulics, ifm - South Africa
Pneumatic airboxes control cylinders or actuators using compressed air, and are found in a wide range of industrial applications. |
Green hydrogen could be the missing link in powering the future of technology
October 2025, Electrical Power & Protection
Green hydrogen has numerous applications across multiple industries. It also has the potential to provide a clean energy source to power future technology, with far-reaching implications for both industry and society. |
Full HD rugged tablet built for clarity
October 2025, Industrial Computer Hardware, Vepac Electronics
The Winmate D140 is a 35 cm full-HD rugged tablet built for clarity, speed and durability, with Intel Core performance, IP65 and Military Standard protection and built-in cooling fan. |
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