A major supplier of cremators in Australia has installed Michell oxygen analysers at its sites around the country, helping to reduce its consumption of natural gas by 40%. [ + ]

OHS data is a powerful force to influence positive change in the workplace; however, these outcomes will only be realised if the OHS data is easily accessible, can be analysed quickly and can be converted into meaningful and actionable information. [ + ]

A Korean brewery recently installed 25 UV water disinfection systems to ensure water used in the production processes remains free from microbial contamination, ensuring a high-quality final product. [ + ]

Motion control systems have been evolving for decades now, as applications have demanded an increasing level of innovation and simplification. Complex operations are becoming easier to implement, at higher speeds and with greater accuracy. [ + ]

Angel Perez Garcia can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head. [ + ]

The industrial landscape is rapidly evolving to address the challenging economic environment facing Australia today and this evolution has seen a significant increase in industrial ethernet technologies being applied to control systems. [ + ]

Scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells in Australia - 10 times the size of what they were previously able to - thanks to a new solar cell printer that has been installed at CSIRO. [ + ]

Recently, Safe Work Australia published a report, titled Work-related injuries resulting in hospitalisation (July 2006 to June 2009), which found that over the three-year period the most common specific place of occurrence for incidents that led to a work-related hospitalisation was the ‘factory and plant’. [ + ]

For anyone who grew up in Melbourne, Slades’ home-delivered soft drinks are an institution. The Tan family took over Slades in 2001, turning a business in decline into a thriving enterprise with a progressive and innovative outlook. [ + ]

The City of Geneva, Ohio, resides in Ashtabula County, east of Cleveland, along Lake Erie. Founded in 1816, this picturesque city is now home to 7000 residents. The City of Geneva Water Works Department is responsible for managing the city’s 1.3 megalitre per day drinking water operation. [ + ]

The use of advanced inline cooking systems is improving product quality and cooking efficiencies among food processors in Australia - and saving on costs. [ + ]

The cost of compressed air continues to be a very elusive subject in industrial applications. The notion that compressed air is free is a common misconception. [ + ]

Australian oil and gas operator Woodside Petroleum utilised a new Intergraph solution to rapidly capture, organise, manage and re-use unstructured information for a brownfield offshore project. [ + ]

Around half of the primary energy consumed in industrial processes is currently wasted. Even steel produced by recycling scrap metal in electric-arc furnaces, for instance, requires approximately 370 kWh per metric tonne. [ + ]

Early adopters of anaerobic technology used to convert wastewater into green energy are now reaping millions of dollars a year in benefits by replacing fossil fuel, producing less pollution as a result, and achieving much cleaner effluent water into the bargain. [ + ]