Australia's first internet-enabled manufacturing hub designed to connect manufacturers to their customers and suppliers more efficiently has been launched. [ + ]

Organisers of the 2015 Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG) have announced a presentation by leading Timor-Leste dignitaries. [ + ]

Gear units supplied to Rio Tinto have won Bonfiglioli Transmission Australia the Bulk Handling Award for 2014 in the category of Excellence in the Application of Gears, Motors or Drives. [ + ]

OneHarvest has contracted Wiley for the construction of the largest fresh-cut salad facility of its kind in NSW. [ + ]

The Australian manufacturing sector has shown some positive signs, experiencing its third consecutive month of improved results and edging narrowly into overall growth, according to November's Australian Industry Group PMI result. [ + ]

SmartVentilation is a solution to the challenge of providing fresh air and venting toxic gases from subterranean mines while minimising energy use. [ + ]

IICA has developed a new Functional Safety Engineer training course for Safety Instrumented Systems, which is being assessed by TÜV Rheinland and is expected to have approval in early 2015. [ + ]

Laser physicists at ANU have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre. [ + ]

China has revised its forecast gas demand downwards just as gas supply is about to surge - which could spell trouble for big gas producers. [ + ]

Floating LNG (FLNG) will be a major topic of conversation for the annual Australasian Oil & Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG), to be held in Perth next March. [ + ]

Siemens signs important MOU with Engineers Australia. [ + ]

A green paper released by Engineers Australia has revealed that, in some sectors, up to 75% of complex projects with budgets greater than $500 million fail. [ + ]

The global market for machine vision system components is forecasted to reach $26.9 billion by 2020, according to a report by BCC Research. [ + ]

Emerson Process Management has opened the first manufacturing and integration centre in Asia for its Rosemount Analytical technologies. [ + ]

Auto-Bake has been highly commended for manufacturing excellence in the Manufacturing Export Awards category of the Premier's NSW Export Award. [ + ]