Events
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Join Cova as we explore funding innovation post COVID-19
At Cova Advisory, we’re always working to bring you news and events that will benefit your business. Together with the South African Council for Automation and Control (SACAC), we’re hosting a free webinar on funding innovation in the post-pandemic world. We’d love you to join us. We have put together a panel of experts from […]
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Online Control Systems Open Day 2020
The South African Council for Automation and Control (SACAC) invites you to participate in an online Control Systems Open Day on the 5th of November 2020. This event showcases control related research undertaken at universities across South Africa, giving postgraduate students, researchers and industry experts working in the field of automation and control the opportunity […]
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Practical guide to the management of “Bad Actor” alarms
The South African Council for Automation and Control will be hosting a webinar on the management of “bad actor” alarms. Abnormally high process alarm rates can usually be traced back to a few “Bad Actor” alarms. These “Bad Actor” alarms are the result of instrument faults, poor DCS/SCADA configuration or process design. Excessive alarms to […]
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Motorcycles: the science, the folklor and going fast
The South African Council for Automation and Control will be hosting an evening talk on the modelling and optimal control of motorcycles in closed-circuit racing. The lecture will start with a brief review of the history of bicycle and motorcycle modelling. This will include such things as design evolutions, modelling developments and methodologies, and the […]
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OBSERVER DESIGN
The South African Council for Automation and Control will be presenting a one-day interactive course on model-based observer design. This will be a hybrid event that can be attended in person or online. The aim is to determine which states and parameters of an observer model can be estimated with reasonable accuracy from available measurements. […]
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Machine Learning for Process Control
The South African Council for Automation and Control will be hosting a workshop showcasing industrial applications of machine learning in process monitoring and control (details below) as well as providing hands-on experience in the application of basic ML techniques. Participants will be guided through examples illustrating fundamental concepts of ML, including the bias-variance trade-off, linear […]
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SACAC CCA2021 Author Sponsorship
The Control Conference Africa 2021 (CCA2021) will be held at Misty Hills Country Hotel and Conference Centre in Muldersdrift from 7 to 8 December 2021. To enable employees and students of SACAC’s industrial or institutional members to participate in this international event, sponsorship money is made available to send eight SACAC member to the congress. […]
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Online Guest Lecture: All models are wrong but some are useful – Model Predictive Control (MPC) in Industry
SACAC hosts a monthly Guest Lecture specifically to expose undergraduate and postgraduate students to real-world control and automation problems and solutions. All members of SACAC are welcome to attend these online/hybrid events. TITLE “All models are wrong but some are useful – Model Predictive Control (MPC) in Industry” by Dr Kevin Brooks Founder and Director […]
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Practical Implementation Guidelines for a Process Control System
A lecture designed to give an overview of the control system design process. It will cover topics that give insight into the requirements, objectives and outputs of control system design as implemented in industry, touching on the interfaces that the control engineer has with various disciplines and framing the project lifecycle of a production plant […]
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From Engineering Principles to Real-World Benefits
The presentation will focus on how sound engineering theory is incorporated into design and translated into real-world benefits. The focus will be on case-studies where proper design led to demonstrable impact. The solutions to problems encountered on regulatory and advanced controllers have in many cases been well analysed. I.e., sound theoretical principles characterise these problems and therefore […]