Industry News
Standard drives manager appointed
Industrial automation company, Rockwell Automation, has appointed Les Cutajar as its standard drives product manager. With 14 years’ sales experience with the company, Cutajar believes his role represents an opportunity to emphasise the commitment that Rockwell Automation has made to the drives market in Australia.
[ + ]Coal key to future power supply issues
Power utility executives are facing up to a technology-driven period of change over the next five years and beyond, according to a survey of the global sector.
[ + ]Jet cleaning device makes light work of sludge cleaning
Cleaning the inside of giant storage tanks at refineries and bulk chemical storage facilities is about to get a whole lot easier, safer and cheaper with the development of a jet cleaning device.
[ + ]Matrix agency
Matrix Process Solutions has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for Australia with French Company Manufacture Caoutchouc Duverger (MCD).
[ + ]Fieldbus committee
ISA has formed a new committee to focus on developing a standard to help accelerate the implementation and widespread uses of fieldbus devices throughout industry. The ISA SP104 committee will be formed to create a standard that adopts the generic language specified by IEC 61804 to describe the properties of automation system components. The specified language is capable of describing device parameters and their dependencies, device functions, graphical representations and interactions with control devices.
[ + ]Conference on welding and engineering
A one-day conference on Welding and the Engineer will be held as part of the WELDTECH exhibition, which is running during National Manufacturing Week 2006 at Sydney’s Darling Harbour, from May 30 to June 2.
[ + ]Mini sensors for corrosion control
A novel array of sensors is poised to change the costly and resource-intensive process of fighting corrosion in industries such as aerospace, shipping, mining, oil and gas.
[ + ]GE Fanuc joins VITA board
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has joined the board of directors of VITA, the trade association dedicated to fostering open systems architecture in a variety of embedded systems applications. Jim Berlin, vice president of Hardware Technology, will serve as GE Fanuc's primary representative on the VITA board.
[ + ]Jet device to eliminate manual sludge cleaning
Cleaning the inside of giant storage tanks at refineries and bulk chemical storage facilities is set to get a whole lot easier, safer and cheaper, with the development of an innovative jet cleaning device.
[ + ]CSIRO spins out a company
Bulk materials handlers the world over are said to reap rewards following the announcement of a new CSIRO-owned spin-out company called Intalysis.
[ + ]Advantech at CeBit
Advantech will be demonstrating its latest technology products at this year's CeBit exhibition in Sydney.
[ + ]Progress in anti-fogging technology
XeroCoat has received funding from enough investors to develop its innovative anti-fogging and anti-reflective coating technology.
[ + ]Krohne forms strategic alliance with Berthold
Krohne Australia has formed a strategic alliance with Berthold technologies to complement its process instrumentation range for Australian mining and oil and gas industries
[ + ]Germany looks to Australian supplier for flowmeters
German mining company RWE Power has ordered 25 ABB AquaMaster electromagnetic water meters to help preserve groundwater based marshes and wetlands around its German coal mines.
[ + ]Emerson wins contract in asian power market
The opening of Taiwan's utility market to independent power producers has generated greater competition, with more companies allowed to build power plants and offer services to the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).
[ + ]