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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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

Autodesk has acquired some of the assets of HSMWorks, which will add software to control machine tools and related machinery to Autodesk’s portfolio of software for manufacturing. [ + ]

Schneider Electric subsidiary Telvent Canada has blamed the recent intrusion to its network on a Chinese group calling themselves the Comment Group or Comment Crew. [ + ]

Siemens has acquired VRcontext International for an undisclosed sum, expanding its industrial software portfolio. The company announced the acquisition at the Digital Plant Congress in Würzburg, Germany. [ + ]

A world-class innovation precinct that will underpin the future of Australian manufacturing is being developed by Monash University and the CSIRO. [ + ]

Engineers Australia has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s comments on gender diversity, made during an address to the Equal Futures Partnership in New York on 25 September. [ + ]

Swinburne University of Technology’s Team Suave has won first place in the National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition with its trained robot, Frogstar, beating 17 other university teams for the second consecutive year. [ + ]

Australia has been well represented in the shortlists of the 2012 Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Innovation and Excellence Awards, announced on 18 September. [ + ]

Konecranes has won a Mercury Award for safety and efficiency initiatives implemented for Austal, a designer and constructor of commercial and defence vessels. [ + ]

Weidmuller Australia celebrated its 40th anniversary with Australiana-themed luncheon party, complete with hand-picked local food and a bush band, at its headquarters in Emu Plains on Thursday 20 September. [ + ]

Bürkert’s mySITE solution uses the ‘Device Cloud’, integrating software, platform, infrastructure and devices ‘as a service’. [ + ]

Sullair Australia has announced it will represent its diesel-powered, high pressure air compressor range directly to the market place as of 20 September 2012. [ + ]

The market for control valves using electric actuators will double by 2017, according to IMS Research. The market for electrically actuated control valves will experience CAGR growth of 13.4% through to 2017. [ + ]