Schneider Electric has entered into an agreement to acquire SolveIT Software, a scientific software provider that specialises in supply and demand chain optimisation and predictive modelling. [ + ]

Two Honeywell Process Solutions products have been awarded EDSA certification by the ISA Security Compliance Institute. [ + ]

Ampcontrol has announced its strategic acquisition of Primatec QDA, which it says will boost the company’s innovative technology solutions. [ + ]

SEW-Eurodrive has announced that its new Heavy Industrial Solutions Division is in the final stages of development and will be unveiled in November. [ + ]

Power plant solution supplier Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply equipment for an expansion of the McArthur River zinc mine power plant in the Northern Territory. [ + ]

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) predicts it could cater to up to 15% of the premium beer market in Australia through a brewing joint venture with Casella Wines. [ + ]

Process Group has announced it will implement IFS Applications, the project-based ERP suite, becoming IFS’s fifth Australian customer in the past year. [ + ]

EWB has announced that 10 new humanitarian engineering placements are available in East Timor and Cambodia. Applications close on 16 September. [ + ]

Opengear took out the national Tools and Infrastructure category at the iAwards ceremony last week for its ACM5500 Remote Infrastructure Management Gateway. [ + ]

SMC Pneumatics has signed RS Components as its distributor in the Asia-Pacific region, including South-East Asia. [ + ]

InduSoft has launched a special educational version of its InduSoft Web Studio v7.1 for students and researchers at higher education institutions. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation has announced it will purchase the assets of the medium-voltage drives business of Harbin Jiuzhou Electric Co for approximately US$83 million. [ + ]

Honeywell launched its Intelligent Management of Change (iMOC) workflow process management application yesterday at the HUG Symposium on the Gold Coast. [ + ]

Honeywell has announced a fully certified application control and whitelisting solution to help combat viruses and malware from attacking its Experion PKS control system platform. [ + ]

Tuyen Ding Quang, a chemical engineering student at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, has been announced as the winner of the UniSim Design Student Challenge at the HUG Symposium. [ + ]