News Archive - October 2003

All articles are ordered by the date they were published to the website.

• Modular step motor fits a range of housings
• HMI/SCADA manufacturing software upgrade
• Display R&D enables low-cost backplanes
• Durable touch screens solutions
• Tasmanian laboratory accreditation service
• Greentree software manufacturing module
• Bluetooth answers critics
• Software asset management program
• FPGA imaging development platform
• Compound semi growth tied to R&D investment
• ABB’s new 72.5kV plug and switch system
• ERP and e-business software
• The five cent fallacy
• Quantum chip exploits geothermal energy
• Customised hand-held enclosure series
• Low-cost field-mounted integrator modulesy
• Low cost 32-bit microcontroller family
• Microwave (RFID) identification systems
• Bulk industrial plastic tubs
• Dual-output synchronous PWM controller
• Hivol truck bodies hit success
• Remote mining communities’ big winners as two-way satellite takes off
• Radio frequency identification technology
• Rare earth permanent lifting magnet
• Lead and cadmium free 5A relay
• Up she rises: without a hitch, but with plenty of jacks
• Static and vibratory fluid bed dryers
• Industrial vacuum for professional users
• Power detector with offset and gain adjustment
• Upgraded version of the Wonder-Wand
• VD4 vacuum circuit-breakers
• Low-EMI 3V all-silicon clock oscillator
• Power supply tracking controllers
• Single pass colour laser printer
• Queensland Mining and Engineering Exhibition (QME 2004) broadens its appeal
• Metso’s new Barmac set to make impact
• Wet and dry area anti-fatigue and safety mats
• Secondary-side synchronous-rectifier drivers
• High-accuracy temperature switches
• Supply chain management integration
• SQL version of MEX software
• Victorian fossils may finger new gold
• Ultimate pipe repair kit
• Multi-channel simultaneous sampling
• Emergency pipe maintenance bandages
• High speed cable systems
• Field tool with over-the-air measurements
• Komatsu launches ADT
• Bubble jet plastic markers printer
• Choosing the best hearing protection
• Next generation in safety wear
• Temperature calibration and asset management
• Voice search engine and communications
• Redross nickel mine given the nod
• Multi-function PicoGate Logic device
• Wireless service management software
• Trapped key principal valve interlocks
• Compact package new platform oscillators
• Industrial workwear with design features
• Automated robotic case packer
• Going over Chinese longwall
• Ergonomic adjustable lift truck
• Dry ice blasting technology
• Industrial LCD monitor/keyboard drawer
• Cable and insulation cutting tool
• Latest high performance electric rope shovel goes to work
• Hand held digital USB microscope
• Aluminium Namur mount valve
• Another month, another contract for Macmahon
• First Yandi ore is shipped through Cape Lambert port
• Universal pushbutton to DeviceNet station
• Smart battery charger controller
• Motorola develops 4 Mbit MRAM chips
• Synchronous/asynchronous dual-port devices
• The Honeymoon over for Beverley, too?
• South Australia looks set for a mining boom
• Using GPS helps to make dozers much more productive
• Railway to boost mining and minerals
• New line of industrial pressure transmitters
• Transceiver-selectable board hardware
• Glass opens the window for powerful lasers
• SMT test points for automatic placement
• South Australian geoscientists discover the world
• Integrated Vision launches dedicated service
• Data acquisition and SCADA software
• Three axis ultrasonic anemometer
• Free thermocouple calibration software
• Polymer LCDs pave way for artificial muscles
• BBI servo motor and drive module
• Built-in-controller safety light curtain
• ‘Glow-in-the-dark’ control knobs
• Tech giants watch IP video market
• Australian made battery backup units
• Videoflyer playback video monitor
• KRONE products IEEE compliant
• FieldBus high-speed Ethernet linking devices
• Wall mounted CompactPCI system
• Three part polymer telescopic extension
• GPS receiver testing support tool
• Fast 100V MOSFET driver
• Mobile customer relationship management
• Dual CMOS low-dropout regulator
• Flash disk standard for embedded SBCs
• Fibre optic anaerobic adhesive
• Continuous ink jet printers
• Mobile computer for supply chain
• Vacuum thermoform packaging machinery
• CitectSCADA V5.5 and two new options
• Real-time analytics and product tracking
• Olympic gains: WMC Resources is set to hit nameplate capacity
• Shaft’s lining is now safe and shored
• Palm sized digital force gauges
• Adhesive pallet packaging system
• Low detergent cleaning-in-place sets
• Chip programming made simple
• Reptechnic, SMR form ASIC design service
• Programmable flash memory microcontrollers
• Personal Broadband readies Q4 launch
• Automated feed rate optimisation
• Professional carpet and upholstery cleaner
• Ladder lift and equipment hire
• e-Government drives IT growth
• Commercial vehicle with saloon car qualities
• Cochlear inks deal with Tessera
• High pressure water blaster/vacuum cleaner
• Wet/dry industrial vacuum cleaner
• Small low-ohmic analogue switches
• Infrared analyser for gas and liquid
• Compact, high power diode package
• SMT coin cell retainers
• OIP provides IP/Ethernet connectivity for licensed narrowband Integra TR products
• Terminal block specifications upgraded
• Online ERP application for SMEs
• New continuous miner unveiled
• Darwin’s to become home for a new ERA
• Clean-up and workplace safety absorbents
• Yokogawa awarded a golden opportunity at Telfer
• Staying safe all along the highwall
• Big Outokumpu tech package for Telfer
• Automatic tray erector-shrink wrapper line
• Crankshaft and camshaft gauge
• High sensitivity handheld spectrum analyser
• Web headline compulsory
• Conical shaped grinding media may soon be available in Australia
• Tension bolt system speeds screen changes
• Lighting tower with separate generator
• Gosnells Quarry is here for a long time, but you’ll never notice
• Small automatic cartoner and top load cartoner
• Low-noise compact industrial vibrator
• Pressure pump test set
• Transmin has impact
• Intelligent devices to get friendlier
• Conduction-cooled range for I/O applications
• Current transformer test/disconnect terminals
• Warehouse tool for complex supply chains
• New range of UV disinfection systems
• Expanded range of natural light products
• Rapid motion for vision inspection
• Cartoning machine with optional extras
• Crown Bush extends seal life
• Innovations trim unit production cost
• Handheld cable and antenna analysers
• Air admittance valves for sanitary systems
• Robot completes packaging solutions
• Rapid test designer for 3G testing
• Integrated step motor and driver
• Protective overalls offer extra comfort
• Fast, accurate aluminium welding system
• Air compressors with oil-less pistons
• ESD-protected USB transceivers
• PCs for high temperature environments
• Customised computers and electronics
• Network-ready embedded PC
• Web tension control system
• Device configuration made easy
• Universal tool/cutter grinding machine
• Aussie satellite uses Xilinx chips
• NAND Flash reaches 4 Gbit
• Somar appoints Australian distributor
• A new approach to forklift batteries
• Software-compatible network processors
• Control and alarm vibration meter
• Motor control offers energy savings
• I2C devices for controlling LEDs
• Double conversion 6000VA online UPS
• Standards-based business solution
• Power switch with low power stand-by mode
• Microcomputer driver for Asian characters
• Telstra expands broadband
• New range of soft starters
• Little orders add up
• ‘Intel cheaper than Samsung’ in NOR Flash
• Maintenance-free forklift battery
• Underground pumps monitored remotely
• High-power, compact digital servo drives
• Portable refractometer for harsh conditions
• Minerals processing: the road towards better process risk management
• Ground fault protection with electronic overload relay
• Ticomp S thermoplastics provide ‘outstanding’ wear in pumps and valves
• How to fit cable stacks in festoon systems
• Battery connectors compatible with Anderson
• Drive for IP66 washdown
• Submersible pump for abrasive applications
• Thermoplastics for pumps, valves and seals
• Automatic self prime diesel pump
• Rough terrain articulated boom lift set to boost productivity
• Circuit-breakers use vacuum interrupters
• Underground cutting is now a breeze
• Glass filled plastic solenoid valves
• Online particle counting for liquids and water quality control
• Dedicated mining division lights the way forward
• Welders Master uninterrupted onsite work
• NHP releases its price list catalogues
• Plug and switch system hybrid switchgear
• Stopper cylinders for conveyor systems
• Pneumatic rotary drives with high torque rating
• Mine planning software irons out BHPB
• Extra high head pumps recently released
• Two-valve series proportional valves available
• Getting the best from your compressor
• Wastewater pumps clean Blackwater
• USB on-the-go controller
• Power supply tracking controller
• Power MOSFETs for communication systems
• Crosspoint switch for SAN, LAN and WAN
• R&D program aims to cut solar power costs
• Rack mounted Pentium 4 server
• PC/104 motion control modules
• Telecomms industry needs urgent overhaul
• TransACT uses Onyx CRM
• Ultra-low power microcomputer
• Vision reference and application guide
• Network boot bar with remote controls
• ThinQ ethernet serial device servers
• Air power puts bottles "in motion"
• IEEE group explores 60-GHz WPANs
• Xilinx funds Irish R&D lab
• Quatech divests its DAC products
• PID control function tutorial and simulator
• Optional locking cap for IDC systems
• Eddystone die-cast box family extended
• Cushioning to prevent forklift damage
• Non-volatile digital-to-analogue converter
• Positive displacement chemical and fluid pump
• FS-150 series of inline flow switches
• On-line process turbidity measurement
• Fire detection and suppression system
• Battery charge management controllers
• CE certified compact controller/indicator
• Surface-mount AllnGaP-based LEDs
• Single-label packing slip system
• Seat pad sensor with triaxial accelerometer
• Pliers with full-warranty and stand out colours
• Portable industrial purging fans
• Electro-pneumatic pressure regulators
• Membrane chlorine sensor range
• Conventional digital frame grabber module
• Basic RF technology guide
• Lightweight polymer conveyor roller
• High speed stainless steel picking robot
• Low voltage analogue switches
• Web-enabled data acquisition system
• Liquid chemical feed water treatment system
• Australian-made Nylon friction hinge
• Low power, high performance optocouplers
• Quality lightweight transformerless inverter
• CompactLogix goes EtherNet/IP
• Digital phosphor oscilloscope models
• Four-gigabit fibre channel transceivers
• Ultrasonic liquid level transmitter range
• Dedicated single-chip processor for HD radio
• Integrated bus LVDS serialiser/deserialiser
• Stepper motor implementation designer’s kit
• Real-time H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
• Integrated intelligent motor starter
• ‘Next level’ CPM integration suite
• Programming software with design editors
• 802.11b/g compliant power amplifier
• Packaged rotary screw compressors
• High performance oscilloscopes and options
• Automatic pH monitoring in hygienic applications
• Multifunctional signal analyser boards
• Transceiver solution for 802.11g applications
• Automatic pH monitoring for mining applications
• Two new controllers for I/A series automation system
• Electromechanical PWM device driver
• Motorola spins off semiconductor division
• Industrial keyboard and pointing device
• Foil pouch document protection system
• Card-PC with ultra-low voltage processor
• Hydrostatic pressure transmitters for level measurement
• Plastic closure for dairy market
• Code overload
• RF tagging set to improve profits
• Calibration maintenance management software
• RFID chips for 13.56MHz frequency band
• ‘Most important’ semiconductor since silicon
• Safety signs and safety cones
• Feedback amplifier with adjustable supply current
• Three-step battery charger range
• Prototype inspection software upgrade
• Microengines could ‘replace batteries’
• IC makers unify 10 Gbps standards
• Low-noise, low jitter crosspoint switches
• Low cost field programmable analogue array
• Snooping camera phones blocked
• Award for TimeMachine debugger
• High resolution magnifier with varifocal lens
• Intelligent RTU for energy management
• Metromatics appointed Anser Coding distributor
• UHF RFID tags under development
• X-ray lithography promises finer features
• Measuring optosensor technology
• Magnetic field sensors for pneumatic piston cylinders
• Wideband peak power meter
• Three-way fluorescent lamp dimming system
• Optional digital panel meter for Modline 5 infrared thermometer
• Mobile resurgence could falter without improved handsets
• Balancing the benefits
• New version of industrial application server
• Water tank substitute for mains pressure
• Portable, entry level welding machines
• Innovation makes child’s play of chip control
• Dual output quarter-brick dc/dc converters
• Easy-to-assemble sub-miniature microswitches
• 13.56MHz electronic RFID tags
• Expanded line of inductive analogue sensors
• Ninety-five lifts-a-minute product stacker
• Six lead multi LED package
• Low cost industrial Pentium 4 computer
• Large process displays and controllers
• Standby ac/dc power modules
• Application-specific PFC diodes
• Proximity switches with large switching distances
• Profibus modules with rotary addressing switches
• Pocket PC indoor air quality monitor
• Programmable spread-spectrum clock generator
• Analogue options for signal generators
• High definition 42” plasma screens
• Two new LED signal towers
• High-performance 802.11a/g and 802.11g chipsets
• Carbon dioxide measurement module
• Next-generation broadband light source
• Glengarry looking for big bickies at Diamantina
• Solution for quick disconnect applications
• Third generation vertical case packer
• Programming and software development tools
• Mincor expands in Kambalda
• Major nickel discovery at Flying Fox
• ControlLogix oil and gas flow module
• Drilling at Apollo Hill project
• Koolyanobbing iron ore project a goer
• EM surveys to begin at Jimberlana Dyke
• Titan discovers new nickel deposit
• Foxboro introduces ‘mesh’ automation technology
• IBM gives laptops impact protection
• IBM creates SSDOI transistors
• High speed analogue front ends
• Thin film, single-value chip and wire capacitors
• Faster way to open food packages
• Industry's highest-density sync SRAMs
• Fuel cells continue to shrink
• Ease of manufacture makes silicon optocouplers cheaper
• Serial interface Flash memory
• Vacuum pump inlet trap
• Chartered qualifies 90-nm transistors
• Space-saving differential pressure switch gauge
• Four-channel 365-day timeclock
• Shuttle flow switch with visual indication
• Low cost transmitter for building automation
• Portable, low cost humidity calibrator
• Cordless variable speed impact wrenches
• Next generation safety laser scanner
• 3Com closes plants, dumps 1,000 staff
• Smallest industry-type barcode reader
• Economical rotary paddle level control
• Sanitary turbine flow meter
• Sensor series renamed and relaunched
• Fully submersible liquid level transmitter
• Sight flow switch with pulse output
• Multichannel hygrometer and process analyser
• Infineon pushes ‘green’ DRAMs
• National opens mixed-signal design centre
• Agere establishes Sydney IC-design centre
• ATEX-certified intrinsically safe hygrometers
• Portable infra-red ambient air analyser
• Absolute SS encoder with hollow shaft
• Portable cold water high pressure cleaner
• Intelligent electronic control increases safety
• High data rate cable assembly system
• Actuator and valve testing made easy
• New HVAC compact valve
• Portable electrode stabilising ovens
• Stainless steel development increases productivity
• Silicon carbide heating element
• Monitoring and telemaintenance software
• Conveyor belt cleats and V-guides
• Shaft-mounted helical gear units
• Bonus magnifying glass in Loctite promotion
• First aid kits for industrial use