ABB Australia has launched the ABB Australia and the Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia inaugural National Robotics Innovation competition.

The completion of the merger between OneSteel and Smorgon Steel has resulted in the loss of 230 Newcastle jobs, due to company restructuring.

An American professor has developed a system for remote monitoring of bridges using a dense network of wireless sensors, just weeks after the disastrous Minneapolis bridge collapse in early August.

Nuclear power could be as cheap as coal if carbon capture and storage is enforced, according to Prof Peter Johnston, Head of Physics at RMIT and panel member of the 2006 federal government review into the nuclear industry.

SEW-Eurodrive, a market leader in mechanical power transmission equipment and drive solutions, celebrated 25 years of service in Australia last Saturday.

New Zealand manufacturing employment is on the decline and an increasing number of people are working irregular or part-time hours, according to a survey by the Canterbury Manufacturers Association (CMA).

Leading international compressor technology group, Sullair recently celebrated the first anniversary of the establishment of its Australian manufacturing facility.

Japanese company Yokogawa Electric and the American company Moore Industries have expanded their preferred vendor agreement to include Moore Industries’ HCS HART concentrator system.

Champion Compressors has recently achieved one million production hours without a 'lost workday case'. This means that for nearly four years, all Champion Compressors' work places — both its own manufacturing facility and its customers' sites — have remained injury-free.

GE Fanuc Automation has announced that it has formed an agreement with Pepperl + Fuchs North America to provide interface components for connections in industrial automation systems.

An Australian tour is being organised for a group to go to Interkama 2008, an international showcase for industrial technology and automation, to be held at the Hannover fair in Germany.

Sullair Australia has appointed Goughs Power Systems/Goughs Cat as its exclusive distributor in New Zealand. Goughs Cat has a network of 16 branches across the country.

Phoenix Instruments were the winners of the best product award, presented by Westwick-Farrow Publishing at the Manufacturing Technology InFocus Exhibition held in Sydney this week.

Eaton Corporation has been selected by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer to provide the hydraulic power generation system for its Phenom 300 light jet program.

The FDT Group held its third User Forum on 28 June 2007 in the Congress Center of Basel, Switzerland. The forum is a platform where end users and suppliers exchange practical experience in implementing the FDT technology in their process plants and give feedback to the FDT Group about their requirements and priorities for technology enhancements.