Because cyber threats facing its users are constantly evolving, Emerson Process Management is driven to meet APC annual recertification by updating its DeltaV DCS with system hardening and well-informed cybersecurity service offerings. [ + ]

The blending of employees' personal and professional lives means that companies need to take social media into consideration when they assess how to keep their corporate assets secure — and this is not just an IT issue, since those targeted may also be industrial operating staff. [ + ]

At the core of the Cat S60 smartphone is FLIR's Lepton technology, claimed to be the world's smallest, lightest and lowest cost microbolometer-based thermal imaging camera. [ + ]

The Innovation Statement is one thing, but Australia can do two things to improve its global standing: encouraging automation in manufacturing industry, and investing in a righteous cycle of innovation and commercialisation between universities and industry. [ + ]

Energy management technology and services company Energy Action Limited has announced that it can continue to offer government funding opportunities available to new and existing eligible business clients in NSW to assist them towards achieving significant energy savings and efficiencies. [ + ]

Emerson to provide automation and safety technology to help ensure safe and efficient operation of North Sea oilfield. [ + ]

Honeywell Process Solutions and Palo Alto Networks are collaborating to boost the cybersecurity capabilities of industrial control systems. [ + ]

Many are predicting that we need to prepare for an uncertain future, with predictions that up to five million jobs are likely to be automated by 2030. But is this completely true? [ + ]

The Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Christopher Pyne, has announced that the Australian Government has agreed to support ANSTO becoming official owner of the Australian Synchrotron. [ + ]

Madison Technologies has been recognised by Mobotix for the innovative use of M15 thermal cameras in a large-scale safety monitoring system deployed on a heavy industrial project in Victoria. [ + ]

It may not be a traditional use for industrial robots, but the use of digital fabrication in architecture and design continues to accelerate globally as the innovation and creative potential of robotics is harnessed by the architecture industry. [ + ]

A new theory based on fluid flow will help scientists in the quest to create gases with temperatures over a hundred million degrees and harness them to create clean, endless, carbon-free energy with nuclear fusion. [ + ]

ABB has opened a facility designed to test high-power central PV inverters that features a unique climate chamber capable of full power electrical testing in conditions simulating the arctic tundra to an equatorial rainforest. [ + ]

The Victorian Government has committed to contribute to the building of ManuFutures — a $13 million centre to lead innovation to support the future of advanced manufacturing in regional Australia. [ + ]

With volatile, low energy prices worldwide, Emerson is partnering with the energy industry to take back hundreds of billions in "dead money" and get the most from capital investments. [ + ]