Finding the time to train is always a problem and if it's fibre optic training you're after, well it's simply not widely available. But now there is help at hand in the shape of a new online training system.

B&R Enclosures has opened a new head office and manufacturing facility in Brisbane which, says the company, will allow it to reduce manufacturing time by up to 70 per cent.

South Australian electricity distributor, ETSA Utilities, has 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.

After four consecutive years of decline up to 1999/2000, the increase in research and development (R&D) expenditure in the manufacturing sector has continued into 2001/02, to A$2320 million and will increase further in 2002/03 to A$2600 million, according to a study completed by the Australian Industry Group (AiG).

GE Fanuc recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Intellution from Emerson Process Management.

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.

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

A strong track record and a modern and robust design are the key features of Tenix's bid for Project SEA 1444, Replacement Patrol Boats, which it launched in Canberra recently.

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.

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.