Soon you will begin to hear about wireless sensor networks used everywhere in Asia, from farms to factories.

Enough has been written during the past couple years to convince most plant managers of the benefits of connecting plant floor equipment and processes to the internet or intranet.

Matthews Intelligent Identification has signed to EPCglobal Australia, the peak industry body establishing RFID standards for the supply chain.

Schneider Electric has acquired Dinel, a French company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide array of innovative opto-electronic products.

BHP Billiton plans an aggressive near-doubling of its coking coal production over the next five years to meet the China-inspired surge in demand for carbon steelmaking materials through mine expansions and developments in Queensland, NSW and Indonesia.

Six of South Australia's most talented entrepreneurs were honoured recently at the Central Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards.

ABB announced it has taken over the distribution rights for the Stromberg range of switches and fuses in Australia.

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.

Areas such as IT, biotechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, telecommunications and environmental management all rely to a great degree on materials technology as an important underpinning technology.

Hewlett-Packard began shipping its first notebook computer to come pre-installed with the Linux operating system.

A new annual state awards scheme to promote and recognise high standards of occupational health and safety in NSW workplaces was announced recently by WorkCover NSW Chief Executive Officer, Jon Blackwell.

Madison Technologies will now host the Rheyflex cable brand in Australia after the company's recent appointment as the master distributor of Nexans' Rheyflex range of flexible control cables.

Researchers at the US national Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that the addition of carbon nanotubes to a common commercial polymer, polypropylene, leads to dramatic changes in how the molten polymer flows.

Monash University has recently become the first university in Australia to join forces with Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE).

For the second time, Eutech Instruments has been conferred the prestigious Market Engineering Award for Product Line Strategy 2003 by market research company, Frost and Sullivan.