News Archive - November 2004

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

• 32-bit ARM microcontroller family
• Cost-effective handheld network tester
• High-voltage Schottky rectifiers
• ACT asbestos taskforce announced
• BHP Billiton to implement safety recommendations
• Small business conditions and optimism ease slightly
• Anti-virus for NetApp storage systems
• High-speed interconnect systems.
• Chip set for isolated and nonisolated dc-dc converter applications
• 2006 Games industry website launched
• Injection-moulded military standard case
• Linear transducer for injection moulding applications
• DAC for in-car DVD players
• 1.1A charge pumps
• 6A MOSFET driver
• Onesteel’s Whyalla furnace breaks down again
• Kailis & France wins export award
• Global positioning system for tilt-bucket excavators
• Low-power silicon thermistor
• Electrostatic discharge gun
• Global positioning systems
• Probe for measuring liquids
• Vacuum pump for sensitive foods
• Say cheese to grand dairy award winners
• Safety tailgates address OH&S concerns
• Sales force automation system for FMCGs
• Safety light curtain
• Process control loop management services
• Radio reference design
• Special pricing for original equipment manufacturers
• Sculpted foam shielding gaskets
• Wireless datalogging system
• Ultra-thin cordless notebook mouse
• Australian Industry Group welcomes increase in apprenticeships
• Obesity the big issue in ‘05
• Wafer sort and probe test solution
• Bonfiglioli joins ranks of Italy's most successful
• Programmable gain amplifier
• Transimpedance amplifier
• Free online evaluation of LabVIEW 7.1
• Packaging industry on target for new five-year agreement
• Supermarket rivalry keeps suppliers focussed
• DeviceNet weigh module
• Infra-red financial messaging software
• Distance measurement and position controlling
• Ac-dc synchronous rectification MOSFETs
• Shift in global packaging balance of power to Asia
• Automated tanker loading at Shell
• Automated 52-tool drum loader
• Automation system network security services
• High accuracy temperature sensor
• Distance measuring sensor
• Defence contractor adopts messaging gateway
• Direct quadrature modulator
• Australasian outsourced technology pays off
• Control system for centrifuges
• Fully sealed safety switches
• Start thinking about those winners
• Shelf-ready packing for small products
• Temperature humidity sensor
• UMTS performance analyser
• Freescale and TSMC to develop SOI
• Japan breaks ¥20 billion again
• New series of press brakes
• Single or double door cabinets
• SSA wins supply chain software award
• Stainless steel actuators
• Outokumpu wins again at Telfer
• Overseas markets beckon
• Three-phase PWM control IC
• Vested interests stymie growth, jobs: Beverages Council
• Pressure transmitter for refrigeration applications
• Very large format platesetter
• Twin-pronged attack on drives market
• Next generation wireless switch
• Supporting Australian innovation
• Double digit growth for logic IP
• Boost for NZ nanotechnology
• Plastic 22.5mm LED pilot lights
• Two new PXI embedded controllers
• 1.5GHz and 1GHz detectors
• Development environment extended
• Low cost power tool batteries
• Coffee and nut weighers and handlers
• Inline tray stacker
• Laser-based particle size analyser
• Hard shell laptop carry case
• New designs for Amcor
• New award to address skill shortages
• Deloitte partners with QAD
• Multi-function temperature controllers
• BHP Billiton completes $2b buy-back
• Micro Client 5.7" Panel PC
• Horizontal conveyor for food industry
• Report on the cost of red tape
• Industrial bench tops and shelving
• Design your own car parts
• San Miguel acquires Malaysian packaging firm
• Easy-to-use cashflow forecasting tool
• Commercial and industrial panelboards
• Cut-resistant gloves
• Krones beer filling line for Boag's
• Future trends in packaging
• Cushions split quarried material
• Field housing pressure transmitter
• Control handle for pallet stackers
• Super high power RGB sensor
• Anti-spam reputation filters
• Global certification for support centres
• Protecting meat from oxygen and spoilage
• Creo reports 2004 financial results
• ACI Glass wins training award
• Custom solenoid designs
• SMT mixers, and amplifier to 31GHz
• Save with sludge dewatering
• Chairs and operating consoles
• Laser and punching machine
• Green light Mitcham-Frankston project
• High damping shock racks
• Metso appoints Australian distributor
• CHH makes bid for Wadepack
• Broach cutter for thick steel
• Answers to Lean FAQs
• Wide-wavelength, multi-rate tool
• Library for UWB transceiver design
• Vehicle sales rise in October
• Test probe with high breaking-capacity fuses
• Servo products and positioning systems catalogue
• Carbon nanotube yarns
• Suite of tools for WiMAX signal generation and analysis
• XFP signal-conditioner chipset
• Financial management system
• Encoders meet railway standards
• FSANZ Bulletin - December 2004
• Video multiplexing amplifiers
• Integrated signalling network monitoring solution
• Sonoco buys another tube operation in China
• New energy deal across the Tasman
• Take the rest of the year off
• PCB control switches
• Laser cutting machine
• Enterprise storage software
• Vector signal generator error-correction
• High-voltage alligator clips
• IN TRAINING
• SiGe mixer FOR 2.5G and 3G base stations
• Real-time supply chain management solution
• High performance pressure transducer
• Solenoid and pilot valves
• Instrumentation antibacklash gears and pinions
• DAC added to virtual instrumentation suite
• PACE Zenith Awards - they’re back!
• Companies lauded for ‘Buy Australian’ achievements
• In-circuit test methodology
• Smallest microcontroller in bundled starter kit
• Air movers for degassing and purging.
• Australia-US FTA ‘now the reality’
• Industrial joystick controllers
• Platinum resistance temperature transmitters
• The right atmosphere for food packaging
• Manufacturing consultant joins Challenge Awards judging panels
• Lean means big savings
• Anti-virus and anti-spam solution
• Developing the next generation of hybrid powered cars
• Three new RFID transponder devices
• Battery-operated electromagnetic lifter
• Flying optics laser cutting centre
• Another power station contract for Siemens
• Silicon oscillator
• Plant asset management system
• Australia vehicle fleet doubles in 30 years
• Step motor bipolar driver/controller
• Multi-media network controller
• Ultra high speed digital camera
• Track-mounted horizontal screen
• 256 Megabyte USB keyring
• Semantics-driven data integration solution
• AMS changes name
• Citect rakes in Chinese projects
• High-speed analogue interface chips.
• Agreement Validation Bill - a sensible approach
• FPGA dynamic probe application
• Noel Platt sets sail from Rockwell
• FIMMA president joins judging panel for Dairy Award
• Recruitment consultant joins judging panel for Confectionery Award
• Multiport serial board
• Ball valve range with high-flow option
• Ac motor range extended to 1100kW
• FPGA-based RISC processor for system development
• ITU-T group agrees to draft procedure
• Strain measurement modules
• High-bright touch diplay modules
• Data analysis and intelligence tools
• Hot swap controller for PCI Express
• Soldering and SMS rework station
• Combustion analysers
• Radio-link crane scale
• Miniaturised tubular rack actuator
• Safety and anti-fatigue matting
• Onesteel reports $108.1m profit
• Communications performance analysers
• 50-page transducer product catalogue
• Powerful dust suction rider sweeper
• Video/audio surveillance system
• ACT to rebuild 100 bushfire homes
• BHP to sell oil field interests
• Insertion magmeter
• Weld spray powders
• Tantalum polymer capacitors
• Wraparound case packer
• 12-bit, 170 Msps ADC
• Handheld meat inspection device
• Label for opening and closing bags
• Double digit growth for logic IP
• Packaging paper, board available on JIT basis
• Agfa Graphics moves
• TNA opens Manila office
• Food manufacturer upgrades coding
• Anilox roll manufacturer marks 20 years in flexo
• 30W laser printer
• Dual 1.3A, 1.2MHz boost and inverting dc/dc converter
• Nanobattery points to the future
• Handset evolution benefits chip makers
• Reference design for Bluetooth headsets
• 200W quarter-brick dc/dc converter
• Small pen light
• UWB standard split as product roll-out takes priority
• Standalone switch-mode battery charger controller
• Two-phase current mode boost converter
• ATEX-compliant safety lamps
• Screen-sharing technology
• Universal design capture platform
• Boodarie Iron plant may close
• Blast and screen quarry takes second step
• Dual-output step-down dc/dc controller
• Optocoupler driver for isolated power supplies
• Miniature guide rod cylinder
• Australian dairy market overview
• Lights for cyclists in chemical sites
• Hydraulic cylinders with built-in magnets
• Touch screen display enhancement plan
• Touch technology for large screen displays
• Communications application-suited ADCs
• Universal PCI/PCI-X I/O boards
• Woolworths’ deadline on pallet labelling nears
• Improved ATEX-compliant handlamps
• $7 million for smarter food
• Compact cylinder for guidance and control
• Thermon purchases SPS FibreForm
• Super accurate ultrasonic screener
• Farnell launches Microchip starter kit
• WA iron plant to be mothballed
• Single-chip integrated audio subsystems
• 500kHz step-down switching regulator
• Unemployment hits lowest level in over 25 years
• Switch-mode power supply controllers
• Assembly line air slide tables
• Electronics news in brief
• Transformer cores for DSL technology
• Microtouch monitor with updated features
• All-in-one industrial measuring tool
• Adjustable passive infrared sensor
• Dual-channel dc/dc converter
• Aus electronics gets N Asian approval
• Nanotubes extend by ten
• US FCC opens up private comms
• Ultra Wideband – next generation wireless connection
• D-sub vertical surface mount connectors
• Near field imaging touch screens
• Adapter-style power supply
• London fire brigade selects Wolf safety
• Power over Ethernet PD Controller
• High speed cable connector systems
• Single port SAW resonators
• ACA reviews voice over Internet
• Farnell launches Microchip starter kit
• Spill kits allow immediate response
• Management system for forklift trucks
• Motion controller and digital servo
• Desk or wall-mounted case system
• Miniature automotive CJ relay
• New range of capacitive touch systems
• IICA inaugurates conference
• Food Safety Week focuses on tiny tummies, sensitive systems
• Residual current relays with harmonic protection
• Spill-response absorbent matting
• Sock absorbs machinery leaks and spills
• Fujitsu acquires Atos Origin Australia
• Nanotubes extend by ten
• Rockwell ties in with Intel
• Connectors for slotted aluminium profile
• Hard turning gets easier
• Metal cutting and drilling equipment
• Hinged drum funnel
• Portable fault-finding calibrator
• US FCC opens up private comms
• Space soldering surprise, Mobile guide phones, Genetically modified PCs and more…
• Student research applauded
• Seals for leak testing applications
• Heineken adds ‘responsibility’ message
• In-line weighing system
• Government grant spurs telematics
• Ultra Wideband – next generation wireless connection
• ACA reviews voice over Internet
• Aus electronics gets N Asian approval
• Circular chart recorder
• Intelligent carriers expand range of digitisers
• Black ink for oriented polypropylene
• Documenting process calibrators
• 40MHz-900MHz quadrature demodulator
• Intelligent glass blocks heat but not light
• 75V buck regulator
• Capacitor with SRF values up to 13GHz
• System-on-chip family for smart card readers
• Medical desktop touchscreen
• 15-inch LCD all-in-one desktop
• 500kHz step-down switching regulator
• Swinburne TAFE alliance looks for manufacturing partners
• Low-power current-mode controllers
• Standalone battery charger controller
• HD/SD switchable video filters
• Newspaper job ads up 5% in October
• Silent aircraft to have engines embedded in body
• Dual step-down synchronous dc/dc controller
• NiMH/NiCd battery charger
• Influx solves seat belt assembly problem for Autoliv
• Smart card interface ICs
• Last call for FEN-Kennards scholarships
• Approvals sought for VME bus enhancements
• Alternative to stretch film for pallet wrapping
• Forklift manoeuvres in narrow spaces
• Online product search engine
• Electronics news in brief
• 120 x 80 monochromatic graphic display
• Wireless and cable-connected colour camera systems
• Active force controller for tooling
• Hardness tester
• Add-on earth leakage modules
• Distributor for MayTec in Victoria
• Portable fluorescent lighting system
• Bell boosts mobile computing
• Project, resource and cost management tool
• Advanced telecom computing architecture platform
• Enzyme keeps cakes fresh
• 3.6 MIPS/mA microcontroller
• Low-dust ingredients
• Bluescope subsidiary agrees sales contract
• Automotive sales continue to rise
• Support for FPGA daughter boards
• Value line 6U CompactPCI board
• Strain-relief bushing does double duty
• True colour LCD module
• Forklift on-board weighing systems
• Computing hardware and enclosures
• Full featured Pentium M motherboard
• Automated laser cutting system
• Support for Actel flash-based devices
• Transceiver-based embedded wireless module
• New vision for automation
• 1200V and 1600V silicon-controlled rectifiers
• Five steps to world class manufacturing
• Lion Nathan profits hit by write downs
• Handset evolution benefits chip makers
• Expanded CompactPCI board series
• Waterproof those spill pallets
• Radiation-hardened, logic-level MOSFETs
• Computer-on-module support integration
• Cordless keyboard and rechargeable mouse
• Jobbing and project engineering software
• Is PLM starting a revolution?
• More than the prosecution hammer in WorkCover inspectors’ toolkits
• Generous schemes to tempt manufacturers
• Plug-in daughter board
• Manufacturers urged to go Lean
• Resilient services sector activity despite increasing costs
• Four-pin link capacitors
• Increase efficiency and streamline processes
• Power over Ethernet controller
• Modular 6U CompactPCI system
• Best practice pricing boosts profit margins
• Internal combustion forklift trucks
• Internet data security guaranteed
• 10Gbps packaged VCSEL driver
• Portable bunds to 25,000 litres
• Accurate, low-cost SMBus charger
• Australian wine exports rise marginally
• Making a start with continuous improvement
• Preparation prior to implementing a manufacturing system
• Portable hydraulic bearing pusher
• Current-mode power supply controllers
• AMS to focus on instrumentation
• Emergency stop pushbuttons
• Extra paperwork pays off for R&D grant
• Variable area heat-transfer surface
• Protective quiver for welding rods
• Award adds weight to DOW’s reputation
• Compact light level transmitter
• Product and transportation design software suite
• Aluminium in food and water
• Cash v. leasing v. hire purchase
• Diagnostic device finds faults
• Handy new pressure calibrator
• Water, oil, and stain-repellant garments
• Bell boosts mobile computing
• Tool system for tapping sheetmetal
• FRAM motors forward with automotive endorsement
• Design software road show
• Interchangeable shaft ratcheting screwdriver
• Online design centre updated
• WorkSafe warns on fake inspectors
• System monitors safety systems and control functions
• Metals manufacturer adopts ERP system
• Approvals sought for VME bus enhancements
• Electronic nose for early fire detection
• Computer-controlled filling system
• High-pressure research points to improved food processing
• New name and focus for local food service icon
• Nanotube oscillators, Spinach-powered mobiles, Virtual girlfriends and more…
• Heat resistant pipe purging system
• Centrifugal and electro-submersible pumps
• Consumer demand supports manufacturing growth despite cost pressures
• Safety integrity level tightens, engineers relax
• $18m investment propels Gabb into top league
• UCB Films now Innovia
• LIN-controlled alternator regulator
• Secure embedded web application kit
• Seven-channel temperature monitors
• Dual-tap Camera Link camera
• Low-temperature black oxide process
• Implementing SSL on 8-bit micros
• Current monitor for automotive applications
• Single smart card interface
• Fed up with your energy bill?
• Die on leadframe packaging
• Seven-inch TFT LCD touch screen display
• Bluetooth mobile phone headset
• Is it time to consider CE-based HMIs?
• Coefficient of friction tester software updates
• 20% of Australian workers work more than 50 hours a week
• Crankshaft and camshift gauge brochure
• Flat air nozzle
• Human-machine interface panels
• New prototyping technique to be featured at NMW
• US FCC opens up private comms
• 87V digital multimeter
• Demountable system for food prep and manufacturing
• Temperature instruments with anti-microbial protection
• 303-stainless steel beam couplings
• Electronics news in brief
• Tasmania Power Conference 2004
• Amplifiers require no external components
• Motion controller
• Linear digital potentiometers
• High-temperature tube and pipe range
• Pump cleans flat surfaces quickly
• Business to manufacturing system collaboration
• FRAM motors forward with automotive endorsement
• Infrared thermometers