Industry News
ISA100 wireless standard approved by IEC
The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced that ANSI/ISA-100.11a-2011 has been approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as an international standard. [ + ]
Winners of the 2014 Honeywell APAC UniSim Design Challenge announced
Four students from Curtin University in Sarawak, Malaysia, collaborate to improve energy efficiency in the natural gas processing industry. [ + ]
Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards winners announced
Winners of the Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards for 2014 have been announced by Engineers Australia Sydney Division. [ + ]
ABB to enable integration of renewables in Alaskan island microgrid
Innovative solution to enable Kodiak island to integrate more renewable energy and stabilise power supply across its remote and isolated microgrid. [ + ]
Flexicon to double size of headquarters
Flexicon Corporation has broken ground for an expansion that will double the size of its world headquarters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, it was announced by president and CEO David Gill. [ + ]
Honeywell announces new oil and gas solution at HUG Asia-Pacific symposium
Honeywell Process Solutions has announced its new Digital Suites for Oil and Gas solution, designed to help upstream oil and gas organisations boost production by 3-5%. [ + ]
Astronauts and a former Prime Minister headline Australia's largest engineering event
The future of Australia's manufacturing sector, climate change and the role of nuclear energy are just some of the big issues to be debated when thousands of engineers of all disciplines descend on Melbourne for Convention 2014. [ + ]
Has Australia's luck run out?
Chinese coal import restrictions are expected to impact Australia's economy. [ + ]
Dassault Systèmes acquires Quintiq
Dassault Systèmes has completed its €250 million acquisition of Quintiq, a provider of on-premise and on-cloud supply chain and operations planning and optimisation software. [ + ]
NSW moves a step closer to uranium mining
Two years after NSW overturned a uranium exploration ban, six companies have been invited to apply for exploration licences. [ + ]
Car-parts supplier DENSO to cease local manufacturing
DENSO Automotive Systems Australia has announced it will cease all local manufacturing and assembly operations. [ + ]
FANUC Corporation and Rockwell Automation announce integrated manufacturing solutions
FANUC Corporation and Rockwell Automation have expanded their collaboration in the CNC and Logix programmable automation controller (Logix PAC) environments, with further integration of robotics, ROBOMACHINEs and enterprise software products. [ + ]
ABB unveils human-friendly, dual-arm robot
YuMi is a human-friendly, dual-arm robot designed for a new era of automation, eg, in small parts assembly, where people and robots work hand in hand on the same tasks. [ + ]
Honeywell promotes knowledge sharing at 2014 Asia-Pacific users group
Industry leaders will converge on the Gold Coast for the 25th annual event. [ + ]
Intelligent system to avoid 'alarm flood'
Researchers from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have developed an intelligent system that predicts when alarms might be triggered in industrial plants. [ + ]
