Jan 13, 2019 | access automation
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? That is the question scores of songwriters have been asking since at least the late 1980s. Okay, maybe not exactly that, but they have been trying to distill the secret formula that made Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody the...
Oct 15, 2018 | access automation
In 2015, a Twitter user using the handle @mango created the hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou in an effort to challenge the negative stereotypes created by the mainstream media. The tweet acted as catalyst for a social movement – spread via social media – that...
Oct 9, 2018 | access automation
The Dutch sociologist Jan van Dijk termed humankind’s relationship with the latest electronic devices as the “anthropomorphication of technology”, meaning that technology no longer serves as a mere tool used to gratify certain needs, but has become an extension of our...
Sep 17, 2018 | access automation
For a company that started life in a humble garden shed in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, CENTURION’s steady rise to global recognition – one might even say fame – is nothing short of astounding. The 1990s and early 2000s saw CENTURION establish a number...
Sep 13, 2018 | access automation
Whenever the topic of maintenance is brought up, it brings to mind a certain scene from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (a play which, according to superstition, must only be referred to as “the Scottish play” within a theatre setting). You know, the one in which Macbeth...
Aug 14, 2018 | access automation, industrial automation
Centurion Systems is your turnkey partner for all your industrial and commercial access control requirements, manufacturing as well as supplying an extensive range of advanced and powerfully robust solutions for use on high-volume sites. Following the company’s...