Infor has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire GT Nexus, the world's largest cloud-based global commerce platform, for $675 million. [ + ]

The ACI Connect 2015 expo and conference is on today and tomorrow at Sydney Olympic Park, featuring the latest automation, control and instrumentation products from leading local vendors. [ + ]

Researchers presenting at the annual Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference have disclosed critical vulnerabilities in technologies that are actively used in industrial control systems. [ + ]

At the Engineers Australia Future Tech Forum, strategic management consultant Graeme Couch will outline key lessons for engineers dealing with changing technology environments. [ + ]

Boeing International President Marc Allen said that Boeing's Australian operations set the "gold standard" for manufacturing in its global operations because of ongoing innovations by the local team. [ + ]

The University of Technology Sydney has opened a new Data Arena that will allow users to view and interact with data in new ways. [ + ]

Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity [ + ]

Pat Boland, a co-founder of ANCA, which sells automated machine tools to Apple, Samsung and Boeing suppliers, has said the Abbott government's plan to kickstart the manufacturing sector loses sight of drivers of success like designing better products and updating obsolete equipment. [ + ]

A team from the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering has won the RoboCup world soccer championships for the second year in a row. [ + ]

Westwick-Farrow Media has joined forces with the Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation (IICA) for the inaugural Industry Tech Golf Day, to be held at Manly Golf Club on Thursday 3 September. [ + ]

Balluff GmbH has been recognised for the second time by its customer Robert Bosch GmbH with the Bosch Global Supplier Award. [ + ]

Combining time-sensitive network (TSN) technology with the OPC UA specifications will allow the Industry 4.0 vision of a high-performance, real-time-capable network to be realised without any vendor-specific technology. [ + ]

According to Simon Blyth, CEO of LX Group, it's official: the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next technology revolution — set to be bigger than the industrial revolution and more transformative than the dot-com boom. [ + ]

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a major global study looking at the impact of IoT technologies across a wide range of industry sectors around the world. [ + ]

Additive technology is a game-changer for many manufacturers — and walking through the crowded aisles at the recent AUSTECH Digital & Additive Manufacturing Pavilion reflected the ongoing trend towards AM, with studies predicting that AM sales are expected to more than quadruple in the next 10 years. [ + ]