Industry News
ABB to pioneer microgrid solution for offshore platform
ABB will provide Woodside, Australia's largest independent oil and gas company, with a PowerStore battery storage system that will be installed on Woodside's Goodwyn A platform off the coast of Western Australia. [ + ]
Honeywell Experion virtualisation platform recognised for innovation and sales success
Awards from VMware for Honeywell's industrial application of hyperconverged server infrastructure. [ + ]
Rockwell Automation acquires Odos Imaging
Imaging technology to enable further leveraging of 3D and time-of-flight for sensing and safety applications. [ + ]
AspenTech acquires IIoT cloud and edge connectivity assets of RtTech Software Inc.
Acquisition strengthens AspenTech's asset optimisation strategy with cloud and edge processing technology for data aggregation. [ + ]
Emerson in Australia passes pressure management sales and support to partner network
Effective 1 December 2017, Emerson's Australian Local Business Partner (LBP) network will lead and facilitate all sales and support in Australia for all of Emerson's pressure management products. [ + ]
Honeywell survey shows low adoption of industrial cybersecurity measures
Almost two-thirds of surveyed industrial companies don't monitor for suspicious behaviour. [ + ]
QAD aligns with Progress on cognitive applications for industrial asset maintenance
Long-time partner expands strategic relationship and looks to add cognitive predictive maintenance platform. [ + ]
Something for everyone at AOG 2018
There has been a noticeable upturn in the oil and gas sector and as a result a list of new and innovative activities that will be part of a very full week at for the Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference (AOG 2018) in Perth next March. [ + ]
ARC names ABB global leader in SCADA systems for the power sector
The latest ARC report says ABB's Grid Automation business is at the forefront of grid automation and digitalisation. [ + ]
ABB and Hewlett Packard partner on IT/OT integration
Partnership to provide actionable insights across industrial plants, cloud and on-premises data centers for higher productivity and innovation. [ + ]
Green light for new energy project in South Australia
Schneider Electric and Planet Ark Power have been awarded a $1.95m South Australian Government grant towards a $13.8m solar PV and battery microgrid project. [ + ]
ABB unveils single-arm YuMi cobot
ABB has unveiled a single-arm, smaller-footprint version of its YuMi collaborative robot. [ + ]
Yokogawa Australia partners with Applied Analytics to expand analyser system capabilities
Yokogawa Australia has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Applied Analytics to distribute its range of process analysers in Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]
Infor named a Leader in Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for EAM Software
Infor has announced the company was recognised as a Leader in the Gartner 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management Software for Infor EAM. [ + ]
Calix receives Australian Advanced Manufacturing Growth Fund award
Australian technology company Calix has announced it is the recipient of an Australian Advanced Manufacturing Growth Fund award to produce advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries, a major growth market over the coming decades. [ + ]
