News Archive - March 2004

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

• Safety first on high speed doors
• Machine monitoring software
• New health claims review underway
• Economies of scales
• Innovative electroplating techniques
• Tungsten carbide welding products
• Enterprise resource planning solutions
• OHS training videos and DVDs
• Punch press tooling products
• Spectrometers for NIR applications
• Streamlined programmable relays
• Expanded range for robotics industry
• High power ac power supplies
• Downer infrastructure wins $40m contract
• Quality Compressed Air Exposition
• CNC laser engraving machine
• Longer life batteries and chargers
• Distributed power fuel cells
• R&D and venture capital focus
• Hand-held digital multimeter
• Cable and harness testers
• New die casting system
• Freight Australia sold for $285 million
• Ground-breaking rapid prototyping
• Plastic pallets and bins
• Entry level power tool packages
• Integrated embedded device server
• Eye-safe lasers
• Strengthening trade balance
• Programmable video pattern generators
• Vibration control products guide
• Radio test set functions expanded
• Signet to sponsor Tamsyn Lewis
• Australia’s fastest PET bottle unscrambler
• 3G deployment better late than never
• Actel ships one millionth Flash-based FPGA
• Durable safety barriers
• Coates hires older workers
• White LED drivers
• Servo-mechatronic press brake
• Bluescope launches $7.94m paint line
• Standard for degradable plastics
• Signed, sealed and delivered overseas
• 802.11g WLAN shipments to exceed b
• Integrated audio amplifier
• Adelaide ‘best for electronics’
• Synthetic lubricants and cleaners
• Industrial keyboard range
• Analogue front end circuit
• CNC profile plasma tables
• Water-measurement devices
• BoMs from CAD drawings
• Wood analysis device
• PicoChip joins the WiMax Forum
• Power, harmonics, and waveform tester
• Sensors for factory automation
• The 15 essential condensation rules
• Evans & Tate strengthens UK wine access
• “Nano-lightning” could cool computer chips
• Revenue growth back on CEOs’ agenda
• EAN is peak body for RFID
• 1W CCFL regulator
• Food processors miss the mark: study
• Single chip RF transceivers
• Energy saving ac drives
• EPA publishes Unilever system
• $500,000 to promote apprenticeships training
• Electric actuator
• Zero drift amplifier for portable instrumentation
• Green waste to energy sales
• Murray Basin sand cleans up industrial pollution
• Waterjet cutting machine monitoring system
• New bandsaw blade products at Austech
• Hassle-free wiremarking system
• Touchscreen a match for harsh environments
• FPGA design family goes live
• Equal opportunity learning resource launched
• Awards for apprentice employers
• Hardware platform application portability
• Bus rolls on for USB
• Carter Holt Harvey sells tissue business
• Plant integration made easier
• Double-thickness anti-fatigue mat
• Advanced manufacturing software systems
• Criticism of Wine Equalisation Tax
• Closed circuit fluid cooler
• Digital RF architecture cuts power and chip count
• Industry warned: 'Take responsibility’
• Inductive proximity sensor
• Sensor module expands controller functionality
• Guided microwave measuring device
• 2004 software guides
• Upgraded cutting system
• Disc management and security solution
• Large scale imports of ‘empty’ packaging
• Equipment manufacturer expands at home and abroad
• Bangladesh drops Australian milk powder duty
• Compact diodes
• ASSDA to raise stainless standards
• Integrated half-bridge inverter
• Dual magnetic field sensor
• Wallace & Tiernan celebrates 50 years in Australia
• Bandpass filter
• CapEx continues to dominate oil/gas expenditure
• High-tech welding technology
• it pays to use viscometers
• Internet-based software solution
• $3.5m in fellowships for international researchers
• World’s biggest mining truck launched
• Welding: A major focus at NMW
• ‘Clean’ diesel engines have long life
• Hermetically sealed broadband filter
• Employers warned on falls from heights
• $1.85 billion nickel project approved
• Management and mechanical design software
• Super-smooth stainless-steel gearboxes
• Microprocessor supervisory circuits
• Stainless steel heat exchangers
• Bearing clips
• Directional couplers
• $3.6m vehicle shelters contract
• High density power interconnects
• EAN to run electronic product code network
• AIP seminar on product, packaging ID
• Extended power for MOVITRAC inverters
• 2-sector Quasi-Omni personality module
• Koolyanobbing: expansion sales on a low boat to China
• Productivity, reuse message at NIDays
• Taking the pressure off hi-tech solutions
• Sour gas feed analysis improved
• Predicting flow behaviour properly
• PCI networked bus analyser
• Space-saving, 17-output LED driver
• XDR DRAMs deliver 8x the bandwidth
• So many loops, so little time
• New generation of PCB enclosures
• Control valve with positioner
• CNC software solutions
• Telstra fuels broadband explosion
• Australian business TV channel launched
• Engine device helps emissions reduction
• Maximising asset uptime
• IBM & Cisco roll out wireless jobseek network
• On-line optical monitors
• They’re simply the best
• Marconi signs deal with Aussie photonics start-up
• Advanced surface machining software
• Multiple-input video capture board
• High-efficiency wiring and function tester
• Industrial scales and weighing systems
• It's all about production
• X-factor set to enhance Hunter Valley coal mine trio
• Newmont has web to prevent intrigue
• Southland closed by devastating fire
• Manufacturing activity slowing
• Former Aristocrat chairman to receive $560,000
• Omron develops ISO compatible RFID reader
• Outsourcing a ‘permanent fixture’ for US
• Products, processes -- and custom-based solutions
• Aerosol disposal system offers environmental relief
• CNC machine tool accessories
• Ultrasonic measurement for secure mechanical joints
• High performance processing platform
• Universal-input, dual-output PWM controller
• Wide range of cutting machines
• Audio amplifiers home stereo systems
• Silicon chips for satellite reception
• St Bernard Software signs new deal
• Mines a million, makes a
• Seasonally adjusted vehicles sales up 1.0%
• Micropower regulator
• Stanley nut runners ‘preferred’
• Ready-to-punch turret machine
• Mine expo clutches motors and drives
• Unilever wins, so does environment
• Ionics restructures
• $20m Varanus gas upgrade under way
• Automatic horizontal bandsaw range
• Digital colour label printer
• Research reactor batches use Coriolis technology
• Jump in Australian internet income
• High performance CNC machines
• Machine tool group expands horizons
• High speed VFFS system
• Ion air gun
• Metalwork machinery from around the world
• EtherCAT body formed
• US E-mail spending set to triple
• PVC shrink film
• Machine tools and insertion technology
• Revolution in milling technology
• Filters and hydraulic fluid control valves
• A history of innovation
• International conference on mining rockburst and seismicity to be held in Australia for first time
• I spy in a far off equipment saleyard
• Executives debate next ‘killer app’
• Rocket fuel boosts transistor speed
• New apprenticeships up 6% in 2003
• Consumer giants form Near Field forum
• Electronic log book
• New Komatsu Newcastle branch opened
• EFIC introduces political risk insurance
• Stamp-sized plastic memory holds 1 GByte
• No need to supersize your drive gear
• Expansion of defence clothing manufacturer
• Test gets PCI Express
• TNA Australia releases Robag 3
• 3D laser scanner has the measure of rehabilitation
• Safety mat
• End of road for Southland
• Carton bottle
• China sets ‘dangerous precedent’, SIA warns
• Chamfering rings and drills
• Therapeutic herbal soft drinks
• Australian technology in food industry breakthrough
• Online taxes for business
• 3.9 million people not in the labour force
• Distributed motor starter
• Safety glasses
• 10 reasons to use panel or schematic design software
• Food and beverage distribution module
• Wet/dry industrial vacuum cleaner
• Mass flow controller for gases
• Industrial safety boots
• Aerospace development plan released
• ThinPrint appoints local distributor
• Pocket Thermometers
• Vehicle protection by telephone
• Aerosol disposal system
• RFID capable label printer
• QICS links up with QMAN
• DA Server
• Portable air analyser
• Flat tinned copper earth braids
• Tender process starts for Defence HQ
• Innovation fused with age-old brewing tradition
• Experion PKS release elevates performance
• Tool holders and brazed tools
• Minister warns against rates rises on wineries
• Grinding and polishing systems
• LabVIEW training commences
• Tetra Pak launches carton bottle
• Tools targeted at repetition engineering
• Psychometric testing for blue collar workers
• Wavenet receives $1m of wireless modem orders
• Auspack 2005 to move to Homebush
• Wavenet receives $1m of wireless modem orders
• Spray dryer for flavour industry
• High quality range of tooling products
• Low cost machining centre
• Face mill for deep cuts
• Maximising precision in gas flow transfer
• RFid asset management system
• Enterprise solution for manufacturers
• Latest CNC routing machinery
• Cold saws and metal cutting saws
• Brisbane built tablet packager is world first
• Omron working towards harmony
• Rockwell Automation forecasts PAC direction
• All new low cost CNC bender
• Base metal hunters out to Kidd selves
• Servo controlled tube push bender
• Water-injected compressors
• Flash diesel additive offers many advantages
• TI offers royalty-free licenses for Ultra Wideband
• Half-size Pentium 4 SBC
• Configuration and monitoring package
• Have wheel drives that will travel
• Standard punches and dies
• Taking the standard approach
• Miners get risk assessment safety Net
• Ozone monitor
• LXE in partnership with Swisslog
• Auto-darkening welding filters
• Fanless micro PC
• Slimline 15" TFT LCD panel PC
• Processors close security flaw
• China drives international steel demand
• Production engineering productivity system
• Gearbox range now extended to dc motors
• Production performance software
• Non-jamming hopper valves
• Durable polyethylene sheeting
• Pressure, force, and position transducers
• Australian gold on up but rain takes toll
• DIN/wall-mount PC-based controller
• Human-machine interface rugged PCs
• World pharmaceutical packaging demand to reach US$22.2 billion a year
• Pentium 4 motherboard with 3 ISA slots
• Workstation with integrated membrane keypad
• Pre-configured combination motor starter needs no additional enclosures
• Some things old; some things new
• Rugged 19" rackmount LCD TFT monitors
• High performance, rugged micro PCs
• Carbon-based transistors drive motors and LEDs
• Putting the squeeze on RF
• Fully sealed industrial keyboard
• Positioners provide welding safety
• Victorian food manufacturing safety program
• $45.5m contract for training planes
• Science co-operation in APEC
• USB transceiver interface
• Multiphase oscillator
• CCFL backlight controller
• Adacel to supply fighter software
• Gas ring pumps
• Electro-hydraulic servo valves
• Synchronous boost dc/dc converter
• Cochlear under investigation in US
• Compact tilt sensor
• Government promotes automotive apprenticeships
• Cochlear under investigation in US
• DPAK MOSFETs and bipolars
• Toyota working on “partner robots”
• Unemployment rises to 5.9%
• Application inverters
• Downer & Crown form wireless design JV
• NI claims record sales
• CPU modules for industrial applications
• Getting the right end of the stick
• PXI-based wireless test system
• Local controlled; global grounded
• Liquid sealing machine
• EU access for Australian rock lobster
• Average weekly wage up 4%
• High speed spindles
• Multi-purpose construction lasers
• Finding a fix to that sinking feeling
• Heavy-duty MIG/MAG welders made for harshest environments
• Rackmount computer package products
• Real time kernel from Zilog
• VME bus architecture analyser
• Wine production analysis monitor
• Frequency inverter software
• EAN Australia positions for RFID growth
• User friendly soft starter
• Servo valve test and service
• Lasers becoming faster and more powerful
• Low inertia motion control system
• Hypodermic needle tensile tester
• Net weight filling machines
• Telstra posts $2.3bn profit
• On the importance of supporting brows
• Blue laser media offers terabytes on a disc
• World pharmaceutical packaging to reach $US22.2 billion a year
• Slow speed mixers for arduous conditions
• Industrial strength recovery winches launched
• New contactors solve dc switching problems
• Leighton gets go ahead on $854m project
• Could this be the world’s first plug-and-play pH electrode?
• Production software potential released
• New dataloggers come with Internet connectivity
• Toyota sets up Chinese die company
• Development environment
• A smarter mass flow measurement meter
• Aussie science on show for APEC
• Free waste auditing service
• Machining fluid filters
• Digitised welding system
• Modular longwall gear at cutting edge
• Level transmitter homes in on true signals in harsh environments
• New drill technology debuts at bauma
• Weighing up the economies of Scale
• ‘Revolutionary’ cable tie range to launch at QME
• $10.2m Army forklift contract
• Elevated tanks set to lower waste at Mt Arthur
• Solid state contactors
• Industry forum in Melbourne
• Filling, capping monobloc for toiletries
• Rugged and responsive relays released
• Harmony improves gravity of situation
• On the level, get going with the flow
• Dc isolation amplifiers for shunt applications
• Data logger with graphical display
• Digital pulse controlled MIG welding
• Smart card reader enclosure
• Four section vertical light guide
• Lightweight LED hands-free headlamp
• ANZ predicts economic growth
• Cognex appoints Australian partner
• Integrated power switch family
• Low profile, high-current inductors
• Aristocrat gains US product approvals
• Integrated power-amp controller monitor
• Octagonal face mills
• Thermal transfer coding
• Data logger with internet connectivity
• Therapeutic soft drink range
• Hygiene CD set to clean up
• Integrated audio amplifier
• Australia-Indonesia automotive summit
• Bar and traction dc contactors
• Low-power crystal-based transmitter
• Power relay with latching coils
• $6.2m Navy contract for display systems
• Digital process for design collaboration
• Ceramic backings improve weld quality
• PCI control extended to latest servers
• Pneumatic equipment catalogue on CD
• D-sub connectors
• Planetary servo gearheads
• CIE to assess free trade agreement
• New multi-function calibrators
• CVD-coated PCBN grade
• PCI-based mixed-signal instruments
• Free measurement and control design CD
• PDA market still evolving despite falling sales
• Aristocrat signs deal with Venetian Casinos
• MIG/MAG welders
• Alumina exports to receive $500,000 boost
• Dry block temperature calibrator
• Hygienic pressure gauge assembly
• Shunt voltage transmitter/isolator
• Rising imports tighten noose on machinery makers
• Simon Engineering buys aiM maintenance assets
• Thin displays on a roll
• Agreement whets appetites
• Electronic pressure comparators
• ‘Critical year’ for ZigBee
• Telstra's Sensis division acquires Trading Post
• Three new power supplies
• Grooving inserts and toolholders
• Motion control for Linux, VxWorks platforms
• Ultra high temperature microscope
• Light-weight nibbler
• Protective overalls to European standards
• Components catalogue
• Corporate modelling solution
• AMN forms alliance with VCX IP exchange
• Photonic antenna array makes light work
• Walkie stackers
• Welding torches
• AGREEMENT WHETS APPETITES
• Modbus communication modules
• ERP solution
• Expansions for asset management software
• Australia wastes away
• Moomba fires caused by aluminium and mercury
• Email/SMS alarming
• Statistical and security software
• SOUTH EAST ASIAN MARKETS: WHAT’S ON THE MENU?
• Small exporter, big future
• Public comment open on code
• Authenticity: more than flavour of the month
• GEA AG to buy Colby Powder Systems
• Strong concerns about allergens
• Processors demand innovation
• Tool for faster control system design
• Bluescope outlines Asian expansion
• Enabling calcium from a stable source
• Software for demand-driven manufacturers
• First VRD energy storage system installed
• WINE OF THE TIMES
• Liquid level sensor
• DNA chip checks for mixed meat
• Plug and play pH electrode
• Hot gas cutting for nuclear decommissioning
• UK behind on lead-free timetable
• Loss-in-weight controller
• Fighting fire with a steam machine
• Pressure transmitter for low pressures
• Miniature fuel cells may oust batteries
• Nanopositioning catalogue supplement
• Metal bender software eliminates trial and error
• Latest business intelligence solution
• Components boom on supply shortage
• Submicro op amps
• Digital I/O and timing devices
• Power MOSFETs in reverse lead package
• Demonstration water plant commissioned
• US-Aust FTA diverts North Asian focus
• PTFE-lined diaphragm seals
• Had a good experience with ferret.com.au?
• Thin profile dc micromotors
• Memory reloaded
• 15W class-D amplifier
• Record automotive sales for February
• Mark-free plastic suction pads
• Low cost mini-SCADA software
• Triple channel video amplifier
• Communication with CAN or X2X link
• High-voltage MOSFETs
• Durable and stylish cam lock range
• Software for all Infineon controllers
• Ethernet interface for modular DAQ
• FTA helps automotive exports to Thailand
• New CEO for Foster’s
• GDP up 1.4% in December quarter
• Electric motors
• Single and three phase drives
• High-voltage single-ended converter
• Innovative evaporative condenser design
• Manufacturing solution delivers fast results
• Air cleaners
• Low dropout regulator
• Lift tables
• Pocket flashlight/ac voltage detector
• Aussie food for Dubai hotels
• PV movement monitoring safety system
• Low cost controller with messaging
• PE ball valves
• Helical bevel units
• White LED charge pump
• Mining exports set to rise in 2004-05
• High intensity, low current displays
• Coffey increases growth prospects
• Food executive warns about foreign ownership
• Teccor is now part of Littelfuse
• Power factor correction control
• ACT Industrial manslaughter legislation
• Food industry research plan
• FSK/ASK transmitters
• 8kB and 4kB flash microcontrollers
• 128Mb synchronous DRAM family
• No-wait and standard synchronous SRAM
• SMD IR receiver
• Pushbutton safety and selector switches
• 60MHz rail-to-rail op amps
• Direct conversion quadrature demodulators
• Byte Power device gains ATS accreditation
• Ethernet board
• GPS for stationary applications
• Emerging market good for the environment
• Processor offers both low power and performance
• High end Type 7000 piston gauges
• Electrification and data comms systems
• Power supplies suit demanding use
• Compact metal detectors
• Labelling software
• High-pressure cleaner
• Increase in exports
• Portable HDTV pattern generator
• Alumina and Alcoa complete $US342m sale
• ZigBee on track to bring automation to the masses
• Eighth-brick dc/dc converters
• Association to promote structured ASICs
• ‘Easy read’ bench multimeter
• Silicon photonics comes to PCs
• Non-intrusive milliamp clamp meter
• Virtual LAN network troubleshooter
• $US9bn deal for BHP Billiton
• Boeing signs $114m defence contract
• Mobile telephone detector
• Spectrum analyser
• Synchronous PWM controller
• Polycarbonate PC cabinets
• Unispan Instruments
• Full torque at zero speed
• Low friction, wear resistant plastic
• Bench multimeter
• Desktop printer
• 30V MOSFETs
• Euro Engineer Keith Armstrong to present EMC training courses
• Poucher spare parts
• Cable identifier
• Hollow torquemeter
• Interlocks and safety switches
• $23m loss for Nylex
• Web-based packaging management solution
• Had a good experience with ferret.com.au?
• Quality management system
• $33.5m profit for National Foods
• US export seminars for Tasmanian companies
• Non-slip surface coating
• Computer chassis
• Dollars drags down manufacturing growth