Employment expectations in manufacturing are up 9.5 percentage points from last year according to the latest quarterly TMP Worldwide Job Index.

After years of growth, the worldwide General Motion Control (GMC) market experienced double-digit decline in 2001 as manufacturers across all industries reduced their capital expenditure in the face of a recession-plagued economy, according to a report by the US-based ARC Advisory Group.

South Australian electricity distributor ETSA Utilities recently incorporated around 12 GSM-linked telephone dialling units (TDU) as part of the new remote control and monitoring system for its state-wide electricity distribution network. Teaming a cellular phone network with PLC technology from Rockwell Automation, the TDUs provide a powerful remote telemetry unit (RTU) solution for the widely distributed control system.

The Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) is produced by the Ai Group in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has shown that manufacturing output remains strong and steady.

Environmental Group Ltd (EGL) has been commissioned to remove and destroy the nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions from Orica Ltd Gladstone ammonium nitrate plant in a deal worth around $1 million.

Rockwell Automation has expanded its global manufacturing solutions business into Central Europe with the acquisition of the engineering services and system integration assets of Czech company, SPEL, spol. sro.

National Instruments customers visiting the company's 'Request Support' page can now can initiate a support request from an applications engineer in one of 12 languages.

BASF is to increase the capacity of its polymer dispersion plant located in Cengkareng, Indonesia, from the current annual 50,000 metric tons to 95,000 metric tons.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and their American collaborators have combined the advantageous properties of classical polymers with those of crystals by synthesising clusters of fluorine-containing dendritic polymers.

After a strong first quarter, the United States manufacturing sector has softened significantly, according to the US-based Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

Three of the leading global automation and machine safety companies, Rockwell Automation, Omron, and Sick AG, are collaborating on the development of an open protocol for safety communications.

The EMA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) market for automation products and services for discrete Industries is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.6 per cent over the next five years.

J.D. Edwards recently announced it will standardise its collaborative business applications, known as J.D. Edwards 5, on infrastructure technology or "middleware".

ERP vendor SSA is targeting the small to medium enterprise industrial markets, in a move it says is designed to allow SME's to "computerise and stay in business".

The EMA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) market for automation products and services for discrete Industries is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.6 per cent over the next five years.