The Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia (MESA), a technical society of Engineers Australia (EA), has broadened the scope of its annual awards to recognise excellence in asset management at an enterprise level.

The largest range of coding machines in New Zealand and the most extensive nationwide service is now claimed by Tronics, which has just announced a management buyout of the company.

Data Systems International Asia/Pacific (DSI A/P), provider of wireless data collection technology to a wide range of industries within the supply chain, has announced the appointment of a new managing director.

Citect has been awarded contracts with Western Mining Corporation (WMC) Resources and BHP Billiton Iron Ore to supply CitectIIM. The software contracts are worth AU$300K and AU$380K respectively.

Emerson Process Management has won a $4 million contract for digital automation and control of minerals processing at the BHP Billiton nickel/cobalt mine and telephone facility under construction in Ravensthorpe, Australia.

Tenix Alliance has acquired the Queensland energy services of Powerco, a New Zealand-based energy distributor. The purchase does not include Powerco's Tasmanian operations.

The highly regarded Support Centre Practices (SCP) certification has once again been achieved by Rockwell Automation for the company's Australia-based Asia-Pacific technical support centre.

According to a number of reports coming out of the US, revenue from RFID tag manufacturing may reach US$2.8 billion in five years. Revenues were forecast to jump to US$2.8 billion in 2009 from US$300 million last year.

Omron Corp and Delmia Corp, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced a strategic partnership through which Omron will distribute Delmia Automation as its collaborative programming desktop for control engineers.

Interwoven, provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for business, is expanding its leadership in web content management (WCM) with the introduction of new information management and business reporting capabilities, enabling enterprises to improve operational efficiency across all web-based initiatives.

Global Automation Partners (GAP), systems integrator for a number of regulated industries, has announced the acquisition of DLC Solutions.

Eaton Corporation agreed to purchase the businesses of Winner Group Holdings, a China-based company that produces hydraulic hose fittings and adapters for the greater Chinese market.

Previously seen as a run-of-the-mill 'grey box' manufacturer of components for electrical connection technology, Weidmuller is determined to change its hue, according to managing director Andrew Finch.

According to GE Fanuc's European head, Marcel van Helten, process control and industrial automation will become one entity in the not-so-distant future.

Yokogawa Electric has been awarded a contract to supply Foundation Fieldbus (FF) instrumentation for the Groningen gas field development project in Europe. The contract was awarded to the Stork GLT consortium, of which Yokogawa is one of the partners.