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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Industry leaders will converge on the Gold Coast for the 25th annual event. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

A worldwide partnership has been formed between four national, not-for-profit organisations to provide industry certification for asset management assessors. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation is accepting nominations for its Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards. The awards celebrate the world's safest manufacturing companies. [ + ]

A best-practice pallet guide has been released by the Australian Logistics Council (ALC), which aims to achieve greater efficiencies in the supply chain. [ + ]

The manufacturing sector in Australia began to contract in August, according to the latest survey from the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group). [ + ]

The winners of the 2014 HACCP Awards have been announced at an event hosted by SAI Global. Outstanding food safety experts were recognised across five major categories, including the Ross Peters Memorial Award for Excellence in Food Safety. [ + ]

AMBoK has released two publications: the 2014 Framework for Asset Management and the Companion Guide to ISO 55001 (Edition 1.1). [ + ]

AMS Instrumentation & Calibration has been appointed exclusive distributor for the optek range of analytical instrumentation in its territories. [ + ]

Dr Luigi Barone has been awarded the Early Career Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Professional award at the 2014 South Australian Science Excellence Awards. [ + ]

Australia's dedicated automation, control and instrumentation conference and exhibition, ACI Connect, will move to Sydney in 2015, following its inaugural success in Melbourne earlier this year.