Industry News
Compressed-air audit business expansion
The continuing drive by industry to reduce energy costs has enables the Energy Efficiency Services division of CAPS Australia to expand its range of services and number of staff. The company has invested more than $150,000 in its growth. [ + ]
Honeywell opens student process control design competition
Honeywell has launched its annual process control design competition, which rewards students’ innovative projects designed using Honeywell’s UniSim Design simulation software. [ + ]
Honeywell opens Automation College in Vietnam
Honeywell has announced the opening of its new regional Automation College in Hanoi, Vietnam, in partnership with PetroVietnam and PetroVietnam University. [ + ]
New systems integrator and distributor for Delta Tau products
Motion Technologies has been announced as a systems integrator and Australian distributor for all Delta Tau products. [ + ]
Workforce Development Service will help SMEs improve their competitive edge
A Manufacturing Workforce Development Service has been formed to work with manufacturing SMEs to support them and assist them to access the government’s National Workforce Development Fund. [ + ]
Infrastructure delays see engineer salaries drop 3%
Engineer salaries dropped by 3% in 2012, the latest edition of the Engineers Australia Salary and Benefits Survey has shown. This is the first salary decrease recorded in the history of the survey. [ + ]
Winning engineers take centre stage for award launch at Powerhouse Museum
The Sydney Division of Engineers Australia has launched the Engineering Excellence Awards Sydney 2013 at the Powerhouse Museum in conjunction with the opening of an interactive exhibit of last year’s award-winning entries. [ + ]
Milling technology dramatically reduces toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants
Research shows that coal milling technology by Techinomics reduces toxic emissions while plant data documents a significant increase in available power. [ + ]
Free plant-wide control and information system workshops
Rockwell Automation on Tour will visit multiple locations in both metropolitan and regional centres around Australia delivering its free educational workshop series. [ + ]
‘Robot’ electric car drives itself
Robotic technology from Oxford University that enables a car to ‘drive itself’ for stretches of a route has been shown driving a Nissan Leaf electric car. [ + ]
ABB wins order for 2400 robots from BMW Group
ABB is poised to start the new year with a bang following the order of 2400 robots by BMW Group. Over the next three years, the robots will be installed at factories in Regensburg and Leipzig, Germany, as well as in Tiexi, China. [ + ]
Government must act on innovation recommendations, says Engineers Australia
Engineers Australia has called on government to take action on recommendations made regarding innovation by Professor Ian Chubb, Australia’s Chief Scientist. [ + ]
Turck in top five of Automation World survey
For the second year in a row, Turck has been named as one of the top five in the discrete sensing category in the 2012 Automation World First Team Leaders in Automation annual survey. [ + ]
Fluke Corporation recalls digital clamp meters
Fluke Corporation is voluntarily recalling certain digital clamp meters that were manufactured between 1 September 2010 and 1 October 2012, due to a manufacturing fault that may present a hazard to personnel. [ + ]
Honeywell awarded four contracts worth US$40m by Borouge
A suite of Honeywell solutions to optimise operations efficiency for a petrochemical plant expansion. [ + ]
