[Sponsored] Predictive maintenance, once considered an emerging technology, is now a core requirement for modern operations and SEW-EURODRIVE is driving this evolution with its advanced DriveRadar IoT Suite.

Digital transformation is no longer a strategic ambition in mining and manufacturing, it is operational reality. The result is unprecedented efficiency and visibility, but also heightened cybersecurity risk.

In this edition of The Road to the Indaba, the spotlight turns to one of South Africa’s leading futurists and technology strategists, and a key contributor to the Africa Automation Indaba 2026.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems has introduced a new 10G TSN endpoint IP core, enabling deterministic real-time communication at data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s.

If Africa wants resilient, competitive and sustainable data centres, the starting point must be a grid-to-chip architecture rather than a genset-first mentality.

The ultrasonic flow meter of the SU series from ifm - South Africa monitors liquid media such as water, glycol solutions or industrial oils. It detects the three process categories volumetric flow quantity, consumed quantity and medium temperature.

The PSE 30x-8 positioning systems from Vepac are intelligent, compact drives for the automatic adjustment of auxiliary and positioning axes comprising an EC-motor, gear, controller, measuring system and several bus interfaces or IO-Link interface.

Mechatronics is something engineers have been working toward for decades, designing machines where the mechanical, electrical and control systems work together as one. What’s changed is the level of sophistication we can now achieve, and the expectation that we should.