You may like the touch input offered by your tablet or mobile device, but imagine if your entire surrounding environment was touch sensitive. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation and Panduit have formed a strategic alliance that expands their long-standing Encompass product-referencing relationship. [ + ]

RMIT and SAGE piloted a project in the mining and power industries at Mount Isa to deliver instrumentation and control training, which produced quality training outcomes above academic requirements. [ + ]

Invensys Operations Management has announced its acquisition of Spiral Software. The business will continue to be managed by Spiral’s existing executive team. [ + ]

The federal government has predicted that, within five years, Australia will be the largest LNG producer if the current boom continues. [ + ]

Registration is now open for National Instruments’ 2012 Embedded Control and Monitoring Technology Roadshow, a series of free technical events featuring the latest trends, technologies and information. [ + ]

When Felix Baumgartner achieved his record-breaking jump on Monday, his progress and condition were monitored using NI LabVIEW. [ + ]

Automation and Power World Australia 2012 is now less than two weeks away and organisers have confirmed panellists for the three industry panel sessions on day one of the event. [ + ]

Invensys Operations Management kicked off its 2012 Wonderware and Avantis User Group meeting with the introduction of its ArchestrA System Platform 2012 R12 software. [ + ]

congatec AG, manufacturer of embedded computer modules, is widening its sales presence in Australia and New Zealand with the opening of a new subsidiary in Queensland. [ + ]

PlantStruxure is a key building block of Schneider Electric’s comprehensive energy management portfolio, EcoStruxure, focused on the process automation domain. [ + ]

Austech 2013, Australia’s premier advanced precision manufacturing and machine tool exhibition, is inviting all small to medium manufacturing businesses in Australia to take part in its new and extended Manufacturers Pavilion. [ + ]

New algorithm allows robots and humans to work side by side. [ + ]

UNSW’s Scientia Professor Rose Amal has been awarded one of Australasia’s highest honours for chemical engineers, the ExxonMobil Award, for her research into functional nanoparticles. [ + ]

ABB has developed a dual-arm concept robot for small parts assembly applications. [ + ]