Honeywell this week announced several new technologies and services at the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Asia-Pacific Symposium. The offerings will help plant workers redefine how they maintain system uptime and reliability, while providing safer operations, Honeywell says. [ + ]

Emerson Director of the Mining and Power Industries Alan Novak has provided an update on China's mining investments outside its borders. [ + ]

Honeywell has announced that Mohd Shariq Khan, a student from Yeungnam University in South Korea, has won its annual Asia-Pacific student competition. Mohd will showcase his winning design at the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Asia-Pacific Symposium this week in Perth. [ + ]

The future looks bleak for auto manufacturing operations in Australia, claims BMW Group Australia Managing Director Phil Horton. If the Liberal party wins the upcoming election, it will be the death of Holden in Australia, he says. [ + ]

Honeywell today launched several new technologies at the HUG 2013. The technologies include the Cyber Security Dashboard - an advanced dashboard that helps industrial plants better manage control-system cybersecurity. [ + ]

Honeywell is showcasing its newest technology solutions at the 2013 Honeywell Users Group Asia-Pacific Symposium. The symposium features solutions including Experion Collaboration Station and Premium Platorm for Experion Virtualization Solutions. [ + ]

BHP Billiton’s top executives will lose out on more than $26 million in share grants, due to a 35% reduction in the number of shares paid out as part of its five-year long-term incentive plan (LTIP). [ + ]

A team at the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training has developed a cheaper and more efficient way to test the design of store-release covers, which can prevent toxic chemicals leaching from landfill and mining waste. [ + ]

Kevin Rudd’s proposal to create a National Floating Systems Research Centre has been welcomed by the University of Western Australia. The centre would be developed with industry, government, UWA and three other Australian universities as research partners. [ + ]

Wärtsilä has been signed by Energy Developments Ltd to maintain the McArthur River Mine power plant. The 10-year agreement includes a guarantee for the plant’s availability to generate power based on pre-planned scheduled maintenance periods. [ + ]

ABB has launched a new service product for continuous hoist monitoring: the Hoist Performance Monitoring Service, which will allow ABB experts to monitor and analyse a hoist system remotely. [ + ]

IChemE has appointed engineering consultancy Vanguard Solutions as conference partner for the inaugural Hazards Australasia conference in Perth later this year. [ + ]

As part of an Asia-Pacific investment strategy, German lubricant manufacturer Fuchs has invested in a new state-of-the-art warehouse facility in Melbourne. [ + ]

NASA has deployed MATLAB and Simulink to the International Space Station as part of its SPHERES project, MathWorks has announced. [ + ]

An optical sensor technology start-up has stuck to its guns and will continue to work from Australia, despite an appealing $10 million offer from Chinese investors to move offshore. [ + ]