News Archive - April 2004

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

• Motor control saves energy
• 150mA LDO voltage regulator
• Oil bath
• Environmental recording system
• Impedance calibrator
• Resistance tester
• Price determination report
• EU expansion good for Aussie exporters
• Job hopes look gloomy
• Altium and Bosch extend CAN licensing to FPGAs
• Better audio for mobiles
• WAN analyser
• Soldering iron added to nano-toolkit
• ResMed may delist from ASX
• High resistance calibrator
• Victorian electronics heads for N Asia
• ***UPDATE***SRAM-based FPGAs ‘vulnerable to neutron corruption’ - Xilinx responds
• Smallest package for serial EEPROM
• Li-Ion battery charger
• Portable gas detection
• Construction grows but profits under pressure
• Australia and China fast-track FTA
• Tray sealing and thermoforming machine
• Post-Drupa AFTA forum a winner
• Time to get packaging awards entries in
• Three-port solenoid valves
• Industry-first 24-bit I/O PXI module
• High-intensity SMD LEDs
• PXI switch modules
• Bluescope acquires Butler Manufacturing
• Printing for aluminium wine closures
• Anti-slip floor treatment
• Low cost paperless recorder
• 96-channel video graphic recorder
• Inflation remains low
• Miniature linear guides
• High-resolution digitiser
• Fluke modular test lead recall
• Robots for fighting bushfires
• European pressure washing equipment
• A ‘brand’ new world
• Hamersley Iron signs 200 million tonne deal
• Extra small turning tools
• Canned food industry seminar
• Label applicator
• Portable oil cleaning system
• Ion reports $29.5m half-year profit
• Nickel sorter
• Comment open on China FTA
• Ultrasonic sensors for large distances
• Altera takes EDN Award
• Ultrasonic barrier sensor
• Cling Packaging Systems changes name
• Stylised rotary latches
• Arrow Pharmaceuticals profits up 38.7%
• Latest tool grinding range released
• George Weston baking gets a TOPUP
• Sunbeam completes purchase of Angas Park
• Industrial barcode reader
• Ultrasonic proximity switch
• Automatic stretch wrap machine
• Ultrasonic distance sensor
• Energy capacitors challenge li-ion batteries
• Light cutting face mills
• Growth creates challenge
• Corrosion resistant process pumps
• China-New Zealand FTA applauded
• High quality torque wrench loader
• Pressure gauge seal.
• Remote indicator
• Digital instruments and loggers
• SRAM-based FPGAs ‘vulnerable to neutron corruption’
• Internet calibration: anytime anywhere
• Ink jet printer
• Orica acquires Bronson and Jacobs
• Aussie becomes Big Mac
• Centrifuge for coarse coal
• Business concern over international competitiveness
• Toyota welcomes closer relationship with ASEAN
• Safety controller communications module
• Speedy maintenance with standstill monitoring
• Online guide for small business
• Advanced process controller/programmer
• Infra-red flickerless switching
• Inquiry into national competition policy
• Mini-draw wire encoder
• CRM and service management solutions
• Mini-controller
• Touch-screen LCD monitors
• New vehicle sales up 0.5%
• Integrated mapping and GIS solution
• Conductor bar
• Lightning protection system
• Fault finding made easy
• Real-time expert WAN analysis
• Fresh demands for fruit and veg
• Network fault analysis platform
• Linear displacement sensor-transmitters
• Federal funding for pharmaceutical companies
• Flow rate data logger
• Heavy lifting system
• Cast nylon products
• BlueScope builds $290 million facility in China
• Automated optical loss test set
• Recyclable cars
• Semi market heading for ‘record high’
• Vortex flow meter
• Flow and level sensors
• Exploiting the promise of 3G
• Telecoms hits the upslope
• Safety cones and bollards
• Optical network test instruments
• Differential pressure decay leak detector
• IMF optimistic about Australian economy
• Lead issue weighs heavily
• High speed serial standard for mobiles
• Current monitoring modules
• Carter Holt Harvey earnings down $13m
• Remote rangeable level sensor
• Cost-effective IDC connections
• Re-designed chemical metering pumps
• 10-gigabit UTP cabling system
• Non-contact, radar level gauge
• Quad-channel video crosspoint switch
• Rapid measurement LCR tester
• Trade Minister to visit China
• THR pin headers in a 2.54mm grid
• Dual output crystal oscillator
• High force materials testing machine
• Handheld pressure/temperature test tools
• Nationwide stores renamed Coventry Fasteners
• Linear power amplifier modules
• P-channel MOSFETs
• Indoor/outdoor radiant heating panel
• White-LED flash/strobe supply
• Alumina makes $237m profit in 2003
• Optocoupler family
• Dual and quad VOUT DACs
• Cage style container trolleys
• Amcor to close American plants
• AEEMA Excellence Awards
• Position detecting miniature tilt switch
• Media interface devices
• Open and closed cable marker
• Certificated load cell range
• CAD/CAM support for Logitech controllers
• Power drill mixer attachment
• New range of portable compressors
• New iTools features iView program
• Victorian Government cuts $1bn from Land Tax
• Exporters more optimistic than non-exporters
• Band saw blade
• Flexible vector inverters
• Milk shake - up
• Fume and dust extraction filtering system
• Coefficient of friction tester
• Timber tagger
• Air filter-regulator-lubricator system
• Low cost controller with messaging
• Consistency and versatility the key
• Industry goes pie high
• Mobile crushing plant
• Base station tester with toolbox features
• Test and measurement precision accessories
• Dust elimination for the food industry
• Calibrated portable radiometer
• Expanded family of pressure transmitters
• Ultra-fast recovery epitaxial diodes
• MFB catalogue
• Infotronics signs up Raxco
• Device control via GSM/GPRS
• Dual supply monitors
• Foster’s is toast of the town
• Industrial products' catalogue
• Carton board toolkit
• Mobile media processors
• Tub grinder mulch converter
• Interactive high speed cable builder
• Industrial servers
• Cost-saving analogue/digital transmitter
• Labor wants casuals made permanent
• High accuracy pressure transmitters
• Board for packaging and graphics
• Two-phase dual dc/dc controller
• Smallest 200V switching MOSFET
• Camera and microscope in one
• Softdrinks show and conference a thirst
• Bad lifting causes most claims in Victoria
• Meaty market
• Ohaus appoints Australian dealer
• Vibration-resistant bolt securing system
• Stainless steel electric motor
• Capral Aluminium makes $4.3m loss
• Portable computer battery charger
• Half-size single board computer
• Safety system approved to IEC 61508 SIL 3
• FOOD puts exports on the map
• Non-volatile memory
• Wiremarking boon
• Liquid level controls
• Sweets industry not all sugar and spice
• Flying insects under control
• Power management ICs
• $5m Australian contract for Olympic seats
• How big is your pain?
• First Bluetooth test lab in Mainland China
• RF level switches
• NMW expands market appeal
• DSL residential gateway reference designs
• Costs of coal plant construction cut with digital automation architecture
• PXI 2.1 is on the books
• Live demonstration of Universal Test Machine
• EADS/QANTAS win $2bn refuelling contract
• Power management chipset.
• Rice is nice
• Agilent sells on eBay
• SA electronics suppliers join forces
• More effective analysis
• RF know-how on line
• Business sizzles
• Triple-output power supply
• Linear power amplifier modules
• Visualisation on tour
• Bridgestone announces “acceptable” $2.47m profit
• Automation solution for LNG carriers
• Radio frequency tagging system improves product traceability
• New Photron Ultima 512 PCI camera available from Measurement & Analysis Camera Systems in the spotlight
• Robotics gets moving
• Control valve and actuator system
• Server-embedded anti-spam technology
• Nanoscale switch promises faster programmable chips
• Start-ups receive support boost
• Commission invites public comment on asbestos
• Pin-and-socket interconnect system
• Low-cost analogue temperature sensor
• Seeing the future in Adelaide
• Two millionth Australian-built Toyota
• Netsky-V worm slithers without attachment
• High-precision resistor arrays
• High efficiency diode controller
• Spinning cheap chips
• Signet launches new ERP web solution
• High linearity upconverting mixers
• Seven-segment single-digit displays
• Current-sensing power inductors
• Microchip appoints RS Components
• Dual synchronous dc/dc converter
• Miniature sealed pushbuttons.
• W&G gets first local ThermoFlex Wide II
• New sales take KYMC installed base to 26
• Hunter business export drive
• Lift truck fleet
• Dairy good processing
• Linear brushless servo motors
• Greenhouse emissions rise slower than GDP
• Radio Frequency order picking
• Safety codes support asbestos ban
• Strapping machines
• 25A/20A dc/dc converter modules
• Quick connector for pressure testing
• Get back to safety
• Pickling unit
• Coated insert grades
• Business conditions broadly unchanged
• Oil mist filters
• Financing the forklift fleet
• Putting the spin on flexo spin-offs
• 700W hot air station
• 13,200 placements a week for job network
• Foster’s appoints Carlton MD
• Frequency inverters
• Machining centres have their work cut out
• Transformer cartels fined $35m
• Wealthy Australians get $8.2bn in tax cuts
• Strengthening labour market
• Polymer circuits enable ambient intelligence
• First application for ultra wideband approved
• NZ’s Dynamic targets Aus medical sector
• Autodesk launches loyalty program
• IEEE promotes battery reliability
• Global recovery to continue
• Multi-voltage timers
• Adjustable spray gun
• Visy Displays installs industrial inkjet press
• Maintenance management software
• Insulated mains pins
• Control system for comminution
• Virtual instrument demonstrations at PACEX
• Coates Hire expands Queensland operations
• Telstra to acquire KAZ Group
• Federal deficit of $4.455bn up to February
• Nylex sells five businesses
• CAD/CAM system
• Face and plunge mill
• Welding robots in control
• Programming architecture
• Space-saving enclosure range expanded
• Citect to accelerate IIM expansion
• Australian company in NZ$500m navy contract
• Rackmount chassis with hot swap drives
• Dust collector with 7.5kW fan
• Synchronous communication boards
• Government targets industry skills shortages
• NSW releases mini-budget
• New Zealand winery sale sealed
• Large toolboxes
• Embedded development kit
• Articulated forklift fills a tall order
• Welding robots with force gauges
• Moomba plant up to full production
• Lift tables to three tonne capacity
• Southern hemisphere’s largest bakery
• Inductive proximity sensors
• Voice recognition barcode scanner
• 14-bit analogue to digital converter
• AMD and Intel 64-bit architecture ‘almost identical’
• Pure air - a million times cleaner
• IP phone
• ASIC market not in decline, LSI claims
• Turbulent times
• Industry awards target high achievers
• CSIRO promotes ecological risk management
• Low mist viscous spray system
• Trend to outsourcing leaves companies exposed
• Keyboard/monitor drawers
• Modem brings low cost telecoms to remote areas
• BAE Systems and Celoxica form technology partnership
• Lack of ‘off’ switches strains grid
• Filterless class-D audio amplifier
• Rack mount enclosure for PC/104
• Record March for vehicle sales
• Straddle stackers to 1000kg capacity
• Two-switch clamped PWM converter
• Manufacturers accountable for product waste
• Diamonds may in the pipeline for Flinders
• Services activity slows
• Teamwork keeps production work in Australia
• Which ERP option is right for you?
• Factory changes drive welding machine improvements
• Coal blending feed system
• Global ERP roll-out on track
• Hill End gold plant construction completed
• Low-cost speaker amplifiers
• Ravensthorpe nickel project given the nod
• Analogue switch and multiplexer
• New Zealand is first choice for Aussie exporters
• Mt. Stromlo re-opened
• Carnilya Hill officially re-opened
• Bagle and Netsky viruses compete
• Drivers for passive panels
• ERP system meets growing needs of kitchen manufacturer
• ERP system improves process ordering
• RFID upsurge set to impact ERP systems
• Building business speed with APS
• Sedimentary farms into Mount Britton
• Industry’s hydraulics design skills questioned
• Industry is missing out by ignoring adhesives
• Multilayer varistors
• Industrial solutions showcase
• RFID pilots may be premature
• New mining awards: They’re simply the best
• Thermoforming machinery
• Programmable devices take new direction
• Remote indicator for Foundation fieldbus
• Europe explores limits of CMOS
• BOC launches new electrode range
• Bio chopper/mixers
• Custom-built panel boards
• No ACCC action on Visy’s plastics buy
• Aussie scientists study corrosion
• Seven sign up for ThinPrint
• Sealed and lubricated contact bearings
• Real time laser inspection system
• 2003 sees semiconductor renaissance
• MIT ‘fundamentally’ alters approach to silicon design
• Magnetic separation and lifting products
• International tax reforms
• Compact controllers put on the brakes
• Application servers combine interests
• Temperature and pH measuring instrument
• Platform pallet trucks.
• Create, manage, and share design data
• A billion more computers by 2010, says Gates
• Large-frame ac motor guide
• Optical dewpoint hygrometer
• PMI shows moderate economic growth
• Fume extractors for laser engineering.
• Reliable robot welding interface
• Plasma arc cutting equipment
• CAM software post-processing system
• Ambient fluoride sampler
• Angled fibre collimators
• Hand-held RF counter detectors
• Filling Systems for ready meals.
• Wire ID printer and applicator
• Managers working longer hours
• True rms ac/dc power clamp meter
• Dual display LCR meter
• Retail-ready barcode reader
• Cost-effective spectrum analyser
• Weidmuller acquires Mann Industries
• Government encourages R&D commercialisation
• Victorian anti-fall regulations
• Compact EMC immunity tester
• Handheld 10MHz signal generator
• Flue gas analyser
• Surface mount clips for fuses