Kenya Engineer

To ensure all medicines are produced to the highest quality, pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world are subjected to strict regulations. The problem is, monitoring the conditions in a manufacturing facility 24/7 requires high-end, often costly networking technology. Here Ian Loudon, international sales and marketing manager at Omniflex, discusses how temperature monitoring systems can be cost effective, reliable and...

Traditionally, PC-based SCADA systems were the only tool in the instrumentation and control engineer's toolbox for plant process visualisation and control applications. This led to many facilities implementing SCADA systems simply because there were no available alternatives. To make matters worse, many continue using these unnecessarily costly and complex systems, even as alternatives emerge, out of force of habit....

A state-of-the-art 150 bed teaching hospital in Burundi that will deliver vital care for women and children in one of the poorest nations in Africa is on course to open its doors this year.     The US$20m Kigutu Hospital and Women's Health Pavilion is the latest phase in a project transforming the remote mountain village of Kigutu into a centre of...

Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are urging electrical sector players to use battery energy storage systems as one of the approaches to assure Kenya's electricity supply stability.  Tapping into intermittent sources of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy, Electricity Sector Association of Kenya Chairperson Mr. George Aluru said that the harnessing of energy storage technologies will greatly help Kenya to increase...

As asset reliability collaborators within the industrial segment, SKF and AWS are taking scalability of condition monitoring and data analysis to a new level as well as collaborating on the next generation of SKF’s condition monitoring technologies. SKF and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company have announced a collaboration to reinvent the field of industrial machine reliability...

The Kenya Bureau of Standards launched the Emerging Standards Forums today at the Tamarind Tree Hotel, Langata.  The event brought together participants from different industries, consumers as well as the fourth estate.  This forum was developed because, KEBS approves, amends, adopts, and reviews various standards every quarter. It is a requirement to share the information of this new changes...

Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with @iBizAfrica- Strathmore University have shortlisted 10 start- ups for the Women in tech program. The Program targets women led start-ups that are looking to scale up their business through technology. Standard Chartered Women in Tech (WiT) support female-led entrepreneurial teams with business management training, mentoring and seed funding. This year’s top 10 teams were...

The Kenyan economy was thriving before the global pandemic struck, with significant growth seen between 2015 and 2019. When 2020 came around, growth was stalled momentarily, but soon made a thriving come back, and is now looking towards stability and prosperity. Kenya’s positive financial outlook has drawn many investors into the world of forex trading - an estimated 90,000...

The Kenya Power inaugural Manufacturers', Technology and Innovation Expo, kicked off at the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC), this morning in Nairobi under the theme of Affordable, Clean and Sustainable Energy for all. The EXPO, which runs from Wednesday, July 6 to Friday July 8, has attracted 37 local and international Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of the grid and ancillary...

Ten (10) finalists of the second Afri-Plastic Challenge strand – ‘Creating Solutions’ – have been named. Reusable shopping bags and sterilised cloth diapers are among the key innovations. Finalists were drawn from Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Nigeria. The second strand of the Afri-Plastics Challenge is supporting sustainable solutions for reducing the reliance on plastic waste. Ten...