RET Automation

RET is proud to announce that they have been appointed the sole distributor for COMITRONIC-BTI safety products in South Africa.  COMITRONIC-BTI  were the world's first manufacturer of non-contact stand alone and coded safety switches, that is to say that the embedded technology of our safety switches allow them to operate even without an additional safety relay.

Machine safety and operator protection are becoming a strategic issue in companies today, and RET Automation Controls can provide reliable and long-lasting safety solutions.

RET is proud to announce that they have been appointed official distributors of the ADELSYSTEM product range in South Africa.  ADELSYSTEM offer a complete range of products for power supply and energy back-up in the industrial automation field. 

RET is proud to announce that they have been appointed official distributors of the SIMEX product range in South Africa.  SIMEX manufacture process indicators, counters, data recorders, controllers, power supplies and more.  RET will be keeping a broad range of SIMEX products in stock and our technical staff will recieve training to ensure that they can give you the product support you are used to receiving from RET AUTOMATION CONTROLS.

FIELDBUS TECHNOLOGY: Field Transparency
Uhde Services relies on Turck’s Foundation Fieldbus portfolio with diagnostic functions for the modernization of the fertilizer complex Abu Qir II in Egypt

To update their fertilizer production in Alexandria, Egypt, the Abu Qir Fertilizers and Chemical Industries Company (AFC) assigned the revamping of their existing plants to Uhde Services. In cooperation with Honeywell Process Solutions as supplier for control systems and physical-layer-specialist Turck, Uhde Services converted the complex to Foundation Fieldbus, including detailed diagnostic functions for a comprehensive asset management system.

To guarantee the safety of the water supply, RWW has to ensure sure that the numerous well covers of their water reservoirs aren‘t opened by unauthorised persons or even stolen. While looking for the most efficient solution, Turck was able to convince the specialists from RWW with an sample IP67 system consisting of sensors and a wireless radio connection. Today the system monitors more than 50 wells and 90 more are about to be equipped with the system.