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Industrial engineering and IIoT expansion Experts have been wondering if 2017 is indeed the year where the complete worldwide movement toward smart factories begins. The Internet of Things is slowly making its way into the factory, interconnecting everything inside of it, and producing large swathes of performance and operational data...Read More

Should we be afraid of the oncoming deluge of automation technologies that are being engineered in the world? These technologies are certainly having a massive impact already; what do they augur for the future of employment?   The White House released a report in December 2016 entitled: Artificial Intelligence (AI),...Read More

Cybersecurity has become one of the most important topics of conversation for business, governments and the general population, all those striving for the security and privacy of their data, some of which is stored in the cloud.   There are measures that can be taken to protect data, but the...Read More

The pile of text books for the Vocational Graduate Diploma of Project Management in Industrial Automation is taller than Sammy, this very patient lab! Just before his final exam Helmut Schütte sent this photograph to his Online Learning coordinator and included the conversation he had had with his wife, “I...Read More

Chris De Lange is our 2014 EIT Graduate of the Year and an inspiring citizen of the world. As a young man, Chris graduated in 1979 as an electro-mechanical technician. He then worked in the steel industry, underground in black coal mines, as a foreman in an 8000 loaves an...Read More

Efficiency and cost considerations mean that more and more people are turning to web-based course work, and this now includes 70 year old engineer Edwin Wakefield from South Africa.   Edwin has just successfully completed a three month part-time course in PLC’s and SCADA Systems, one of a range of...Read More

A student on our recent Hazardous Areas course was kind enough to share some photos with us of a recent potentially hazardous encounter at a mine in Phalaborwa. The mine is almost entirely occupied by wild life. Game farms and Nature reserves overlap, so the animals migrate over vast areas...Read More

In a recent phone discussion with the EIT’s Ric Harrison, a Senior Course Advisor, the student made some very valid comments for people who are contemplating the value of adding a recognised qualification to their CV’s.   This student completed his Advanced Diploma of Industrial Automation in 2010, and is...Read More

Here is what some of our graduating students from the Advanced Diploma of Industrial Automation had to say about the course:   It was a great course, excellent revision for the topics that I am familiar with. Gained greater in depth understanding for the topics that I am not so...Read More

Positive feedback from students is humbling and amazing, but it is particularly extraordinary when it comes with gratitude for what is a fairly gruelling process. Those of you who have undertaken the EIT’s online courses (3 month certificate courses through to eighteen month advanced diplomas) will agree that the going...Read More