Industry News
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. [ + ]
NASA 3D technology creates 'metals of the future'
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are implementing a printing process that transitions from one metal or alloy to another in a single object. [ + ]
Certification in ISO 55001 for asset management assessors
A worldwide partnership has been formed between four national, not-for-profit organisations to provide industry certification for asset management assessors. [ + ]
OFS wins Australian industry award
Operations Feedback Systems (OFS), a provider of real-time manufacturing productivity and efficiency software, is the winner of the Australian iAwards Industrial Category for 2014. [ + ]
Nominations open for Rockwell Automation 2014 Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards
Rockwell Automation is accepting nominations for its Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards. The awards celebrate the world's safest manufacturing companies. [ + ]
National pallet guidelines released by ALC
A best-practice pallet guide has been released by the Australian Logistics Council (ALC), which aims to achieve greater efficiencies in the supply chain. [ + ]
