Hosted by Peter Welander, the NCS NET Concentrator System video details the advantages of using a distributed I/O network to send information between instrumentation devices and control elements in a control room or on a factory floor. [ + ]

Restaurants are increasingly resorting to gimmicks to set them apart from the crowd. A Chinese restaurateur has taken this concept up a notch, opening a restaurant that is staffed almost entirely by robots. [ + ]

Government grants are available to businesses to support the review, implementation, acquisition or innovation of new technology or energy-efficient resources in their business. However, many companies aren’t aware of which government grants they are eligible for. [ + ]

Women earn lower incomes than men across the engineering profession and are less likely to hold top management responsibilities, according to a survey released today by Engineers Australia. [ + ]

Sitting in a dark room watching a moth fly into a light might not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but it’s paying dividends for a University of Oxford researcher. [ + ]

National Instruments has released its Embedded Systems Outlook 2013 report, which outlines the company’s conclusions about the direction of the embedded systems market. [ + ]

National Instruments is giving university students across Australia and New Zealand the opportunity to demonstrate their engineering skills on an international platform in the third annual NI Autonomous Robotics Competition. [ + ]

The continuing drive by industry to reduce energy costs has enables the Energy Efficiency Services division of CAPS Australia to expand its range of services and number of staff. The company has invested more than $150,000 in its growth. [ + ]

Honeywell has launched its annual process control design competition, which rewards students’ innovative projects designed using Honeywell’s UniSim Design simulation software. [ + ]

Honeywell has announced the opening of its new regional Automation College in Hanoi, Vietnam, in partnership with PetroVietnam and PetroVietnam University. [ + ]

Motion Technologies has been announced as a systems integrator and Australian distributor for all Delta Tau products. [ + ]

A Manufacturing Workforce Development Service has been formed to work with manufacturing SMEs to support them and assist them to access the government’s National Workforce Development Fund. [ + ]

Engineer salaries dropped by 3% in 2012, the latest edition of the Engineers Australia Salary and Benefits Survey has shown. This is the first salary decrease recorded in the history of the survey. [ + ]

The Sydney Division of Engineers Australia has launched the Engineering Excellence Awards Sydney 2013 at the Powerhouse Museum in conjunction with the opening of an interactive exhibit of last year’s award-winning entries. [ + ]

Research shows that coal milling technology by Techinomics reduces toxic emissions while plant data documents a significant increase in available power. [ + ]