Industry News
EMEX 2008 "a monster success"
EMEX 2008, New Zealand’s largest engineering and machinery industry showcase held in Auckland 6–8 May, was a great success, according to feedback from both visitors and exhibitors.
[ + ]Profinet market booming
Profinet is firmly established in the field of automation with over a million nodes installed around the world, according to PI (Profibus & Profinet International).
[ + ]ABB secures $64 million Woodside contract
ABB has announced that it has won over $64 million worth of contracts to supply equipment for Woodside's $12 billion Pluto Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project, currently under construction in Western Australia.
[ + ]Moore Industries seeks oldest products in service
Moore Industries is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and is trying to find the oldest of its products that are still in service.
[ + ]Rockwell Automation to acquire Incuity Software
Rockwell Automation has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Incuity Software, a privately held company that is a leading supplier of enterprise manufacturing intelligence software.
[ + ]Intergraph acquires TechServer
Intergraph Korea has acquired TechServer Corp, a Seoul-based software and services company specialising in automated drafting, data exchange and system integration in the shipbuilding, process, power and offshore industries.
[ + ]Geothermal energy to power mining
Geothermal or hot rocks energy could power the future needs of South Australia's booming mining sector in the state's north, according to geothermal developer Petratherm.
[ + ]Process manufacturer celebrates 40 years
Moore Industries-International, a leader in the design and manufacture of electronic measurement and interface instruments for the process industries, celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2008.
[ + ]Automatic identification of robot faults
ABB Australia, a leading power and automation technology group, has announced a service concept for its customers’ robots that will identify and predict problems remotely, then automatically dispatch help.
[ + ]GE Fanuc to resell iPower
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has reached an agreement with Catapult Software to globally resell its iPower product as a standard Proficy HMI/SCADA-iFIX option.
[ + ]Work to live, come home to die
Australia’s official workplace death toll — between 200 and 300 per year — could be just the tip of the iceberg, according to the Safety Institute of Australia.
[ + ]Citect appoints global CEO
Citect, a leading international real-time intelligence and industrial automation software company, has appointed Christopher Crowe as chief executive officer.
[ + ]Beamex receives customer service award
Beamex, supplier of calibrators and test instruments, has received the prestigious Frost & Sullivan award for customer service leadership in the European calibration management software market.
[ + ]GE Fanuc acquires MTL product lines
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms and MTL Instruments Group have announced an agreement for GE Fanuc to acquire the assets of the MTL Open Systems Technology (MOST) product lines.
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