Unlocking the value of digital manufacturing. [ + ]

Santos is considering the bid, the fourth in a series of offers made by the US company. [ + ]

Queensland industrial IoT company secures $4.8m in venture capital. [ + ]

Sydney Water is reducing its carbon footprint by awarding Cambi the contract to install a thermal hydrolysis plant at the St Marys Water Recycling Plant. [ + ]

Twain Drewett was appointed to the position of managing director of Pilz Australia and New Zealand on 1 January 2018. [ + ]

Emerson Australia has announced that its Australian Flow Calibration Centre has been successfully accredited to ISO\IEC 17025 by NATA. [ + ]

NHP has been granted sole distributor rights for Rockwell Automation products, systems and solutions in the South Pacific, effective 1 May. [ + ]

Researchers in the USA have published findings that robots (and automation in general) could be affecting workers' health through fear for their job security. [ + ]

A fleet of wind- and solar-powered autonomous vehicles has been unveiled in Hobart before setting off on a mission to capture valuable ocean data. [ + ]

A new joint cybersecurity centre that promotes collaboration across government, business and academia has launched in Sydney. [ + ]

Rittal Australia has announced a national distribution partnership with APS Industrial, a specialist electrical industrial and automation equipment distributor. [ + ]

OMV AG, Vienna, has reported that it has acquired from Royal Dutch Shell PLC the supermajor's upstream assets in New Zealand for US$578 million. [ + ]

A Polish delegation has used AOG 2018 to invite Australian companies to help them expand the LNG and gas transmission systems in Central and Eastern Europe. [ + ]

After extensive market and competitive research, Frost & Sullivan honoured Endress+Hauser with the Global Market Leadership Award. [ + ]

A study from CSIRO's Data61 has identified the top seven emerging industries within ASEAN and neighbouring nations that will fuel future regional growth. [ + ]