News Archive - May 2004

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

• NMW 2004 -- your one-stop shop!
• Linishing and polishing machines
• Tax concessions for R&D
• Austal expects big US navy contract
• Datamax range to revolutionise label printing
• JSF microwave components delivered
• Foster’s appoints Beringer chief operating officer
• Exotic cheeses exporter uses variety of labels
• A plethora of products
• Ethernet -- the answer to tracking
• Moulding company's continued expansion
• Sheetmetal equipment working demonstrations
• High speed industrial doors
• Susceptor laminates offer crisp food
• Fire at Xanadu wines
• Executive analysis of asset management
• Electric chain hoists and crane systems
• Two new forklifts at Matex
• NMW 2004 — biggest year yet
• Maintenance and asset management software
• Power and lighting distribution board
• High insertion loss power connectors
• Laserbond cladding and thermal spraying
• BOC wins $10m contract
• Grey waste water diverter system.
• Easy-to-handle sabre saw
• Energy efficient compressed air treatment
• Briquetting press for waste reduction
• New range of stud welding products
• 3D solutions to make dreams come true
• Now it’s scented packaging inks
• EMI simulation speeds design
• No changes locally as Bosch buys SIG Pack
• Political risk insurance for plant and equipment
• Versatile gantry crane systems
• Instant controller recalibration
• Government opposes redundancy requirements
• Expanded safety controller range
• Cling sells adhesives business, becomes CPS
• New guide to reducing HIV exposure
• Rising costs raise cash flow problems
• Loading and unloading robot
• Carpet and upholstery cleaning powder
• Embedded SBC standard launched
• Vodafone announces 3G vendor for Australia
• UPS with USB and serial ports
• Adelaide Brighton makes $57.7m 2003 profit
• Rail consortium wins $18m contract
• Aristocrat predicts $50m first half profit
• Campbell Bros. announces $17.94m profit
• Component growth up for ninth month
• Packaging Covenant given interim extension
• Nedpack simplifies vertical conveyor
• Taking the heat out of lead-free
• Altera delivers two millionth Cyclone device
• UL certified control cables
• New Australian Standard for small air compressors
• August launch for wireless broadband
• SMS wins multi-million dollar Defence contract
• Wrappers smarten up to protect food
• Microprocessor core module
• Enhanced bandwidth oscilloscope
• $352 million rail contract awarded
• Lab-friendly hardness tester
• Oscilloscope analysis package
• Basic selection guide to instruments
• There’s more to conveying than rollers and belts
• Cat IV universal handheld meter
• Magnetic filtration of tramp iron
• Ultra-stable temperature controller
• ScopeMeter waveform memory upgrade
• How to make savings out of thin air
• PVC cover for spill pallets
• Motion control adds flexibility
• 130mm print head operates at 53mm speed
• Digital design and debug solutions
• Cardiac monitor sales
• Air knife assemblies
• Extension expands conveyor belt production
• Mini temperature data logger
• Panel monitor for RTD sensors
• Print head uses less ink
• Infra-red aluminium pyrometer
• Torque sensor and load cell CD
• RFID not just for retailers' benefit
• Deep sea research drilling
• Caltex forecasts higher profit
• Extra control features for camera sensors
• Laser printer with touch screen
• Analogue position sensor
• Bulletproof security camera
• ADC with software-selectable input
• Clean air in any industrial situation
• New PanelView Plus terminals
• Thermal imaging camera and software
• Barcode scanner
• World changes bring new prospects for Australian manufacturers
• Alesco to acquire B&D Doors
• Enhanced communications test set
• Six Sigma: improving your operations
• Distance scanners
• Harsh environment electric motors
• $80m army training facilities
• Wedgetail’s first flight
• Analogue distance measurement
• Handheld scanner
• Sensor for detecting reflections
• Mitsubishi closes Lonsdale plant
• Camera checks print and detects parts
• Secure wireless networks for industrial applications
• Motor sales drop in April
• Surfs up for RFID
• Advanced TCA packaging solutions platform
• Low backlash planetary gear reducer
• Renold upgrades its chains and gears
• LED indicator beacons
• Corporate web site spending on rise
• ADC with signal chain auto-calibration
• Five more Australian JSF contracts
• Superheterodyne ASK/FSK receiver
• Petrol engine impact wrench
• 1-wire EEPROM
• Long-range laser transmitter
• Inverting dc/dc converter
• Diffuse reflective film
• Motor coupling guard
• Metal protection spray
• Automatic label applicator
• Metal Storm live firing in US
• Low cost CompactPCI power supplies
• Falling sugar prices hit CSR profit
• Oxygen meter for titanium welding
• Profibus user group revival
• Inductive proximity sensor
• Easy stain removal from stainless steel
• Redpost pasteurisation monitor
• ‘Our time (zone) is coming’
• Constant load pounding machine
• Web-based business intelligence package
• Product lifecycle management software
• Tank test nets million-dollar contract
• EU report on safety critical systems
• Background suppression sensors
• Safety light curtain
• $2.6m innovation funding
• Power Parameters represents Tinius Olsen
• Lion Nathan struggles in New Zealand and China
• Stainless steel growth to continue
• Optical SoC challenges silicon
• Semiconductor tester
• Vice-grips with cushioned handles
• Biomass fermentation monitor
• LabVIEW support for sensor standard
• Analyser for copper or fibre cabling
• Safety and compensation council proposed
• Higher quantum efficiency digital camera
• All-rounder photoelectric sensor
• FTA signed in Washington
• Fast detection of luminescent objects
• Electro-optical level sensor
• Digital torque tester
• Web-based video on power supplies
• Siemens develops WiMAX solution
• On-line colour trend monitor
• Network enabler embedded modules
• Budget-priced wireless/optical desk-set
• Two new plug-in daughter boards
• Industrial-grade vision sensors
• Feature-rich handsets sales boom, if the price is right
• Microsoft, SAP raise Web services stakes
• Pressure transmitter
• New generation audio test instruments
• Handheld load cell indicator
• Graphical development products
• Profibus push given extra momentum
• Handheld process control calibrators
• Breakneck pace of RFID becomes unstoppable
• Processor core replaces RTL
• Competition as well as cost drives job exports
• Tensile, compression, and flexure testers.
• Modbus protocol transferred to Modbus-IDA
• DMM for ‘noisy’ equipment
• Enhanced bandwidth for oscilloscope
• Serial device servers
• Tooling system for Trumpf presses
• Packaging machine
• Integrated servo motor
• Thiess awarded $250m contract
• Pipe fittings product catalogue
• Lion Nathan and Heineken in joint venture
• Hydraulics support 850-tonne lift
• Thyristor surge-protective devices
• New integrated solutions company
• Labels that fall apart
• Anti-contamination samplers
• Pressure sensors
• Power MOSFETS for dc-dc converters
• LED Flashlights
• Record grape crush for Evans & Tate
• DSP core
• New RFID worldwide standard proposed
• Bluetooth enabled mobile printers
• Temperature sensor and fan controller
• Flexible dual PWM controller
• Gold Peg expands Moorabbin facility
• Hypersonic engine tests
• Automated labelling and tracking
• Large capacity filter regulator
• Step-down dc/dc converter
• Low cost single-chip Firewire link
• Hot-swappable 2-wire bus buffer
• Qantas partners with IBM and Telstra
• ERP on the move
• Gauge to measure paper tubes
• Magnetic steel sheet lifting system
• A brief history of UWB communications
• New round of biotech funding
• Truck cooling system
• Dangerous goods CD
• Report generator for paperless recorder
• Two-line inkjet printer
• Ai Group Defence Council welcomes Budget
• Custom warning signs
• Lightweight protective toecap
• Safety chock
• Cool reasons to export
• PADS suites for PCB design
• MOX secures Brisbane City Council contract
• Trade agreement with Egypt
• Neglected technology stirs up hornet’s nest
• Product design software
• Aerosol insecticide
• Power sources
• Tray sealing machine
• Universal communicator for embedded applications
• Two interfaces for open bus system
• Panel mounted pneumatic valves
• BlueScope upgrades profit predictions
• Engineers cash in on secondary market
• Anti-loosening lock nuts
• ERP software wins Consensus Award
• Airbus flexes wings with Celesco on board
• 56,200 jobs created in April
• Reprogrammable configuration devices
• Resistor-programmable oscillator
• P4 single board computer
• Development boards
• Foster’s settles litigation
• Plastic cleaner
• Turret punch presses
• Guide to weld purging
• Nappy maker used Auspack to check out all options for coding
• Vehicle-mount computers
• Condensate separators
• Vitamin maker kept in shape
• Thailand-Australia FTA text released
• ACCC to oppose Boral acquisition
• Sydney Water monitors machine health
• Reusable plastic containers
• 6 and 8-pole power connectors
• Handheld computers
• Pressure transmitter
• Survey gives Budget 7/10
• Non-abrasive absorbent
• Three-phase filters solve harmonics problems
• Research group to investigate wider use of ‘green’ roller machines
• New Wonderware training tutorials
• Susceptor laminates
• Single-channel optocoupler
• Needle Sensors
• Impact resistant computers
• Is Linux at the gates of the factory?
• $20m initiative to encourage exports
• EMC-conformance chokes and filters
• SPC Ardmona to acquire Henry Jones IXL
• A resourceful read
• Web-fed press
• Tensile testing machine
• Wine equalisation tax rebate
• Programmed spray system
• ESD protection diode arrays
• Air operated drum dispensing pumps
• Lion Nathan in talks with Heineken
• New rotary transducers
• Drive units for winches
• Coded safety gate switches
• 300MHz TO 450MHz superheterodyne receiver
• Supply chain management system
• Volume measurement system
• Safety device for roof workers
• Survey finds executive optimism down
• Slimline TFT LCD Panel PC
• Tool and cutter grinders
• Dual slot power controller
• GST relief for small business
• Smart camera
• Hygienic handling adds to shelf stability
• Bottled water drowns the competition
• Ai Group welcomes Federal Budget
• Mobile PC system
• R&D concession programs extended five years
• Olympic athlete on track
• Automotive market presents a challenge
• Ratio rational makes for better deal
• IR receiver module
• Innovative fluid coupling range
• Digital torque wrench with angle display
• Big focus on China
• Life cycle costs more important
• What’s where and who has it
• Evolving needs of automation users addressed
• Track tasks and time without a PC
• THE CHALLENGE OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• Packaging awards - a lifesaver
• ADrail wins prestigious award
• Brushless servo motors
• Non-intrusive biometric recognition
• Fuel cell developer announces initial public offer
• Moxon Timbers makes the grade
• Extend your chain haulage system life
• One billion GSM users EDGE towards 3G
• Never total time cards again
• Dairy culture celebrated
• Cutting edge in wall chasing
• Logistics: into the future
• Spiralling sales spark boom-to-bust fears
• Lightweight wrapping material
• Flotek’s Citydel installing first major project
• Research group to investigate wider use of ‘green’ roller machines
• Thermo plastics: tougher, lighter and cheaper
• Intel continues mobile assault
• Radio barcode portable terminals
• Vaile visits Middle East, Europe, and United States
• Leak test instrument
• Panel design: easier said than done
• Efficiency makes safety work best
• Welding system for feeding aluminium wire
• Healthy growth in milk sales
• Couplings and shaft collars
• Regulator with built-in pressure gauge
• Low cost miniature air regulators
• Hydraulic pallet tilting units
• Santos embarks on improvement program
• AiG guardedly welcomes $5.3bn R&D plan
• Web user interface for Baan IV
• Photorealistic visualisation software
• Compact sub-miniature regulators
• Silicon-based RF capacitors
• New 200mm LED displays
• Latest measurement services technology
• High flow, low droop regulators
• Niagara nutating disc flowmeters
• Reliable and responsive drive actuators
• Synchronous PWM controller IC
• Sytec engine makes website debut
• EU parmesan bid draws industry fire
• Manoeuvrable walkie pallet trucks
• Wide range of particle shredders
• Smelting firm fined $146,000 after accident
• Low noise PXI chassis
• Lightweight concrete
• Colour-coded screws & PC terminals
• Packaged rotary screw compressors
• Integrator slice
• Sixteenth brick DC-DC converter standard established
• Boost for science, but mind the gap
• $5.3bn science and innovation package
• Vaile launches export awards
• Technology CEOs ‘cautiously optimistic’
• NI launches LabVIEW 7.1
• Economic growth remains strong
• Extended reliability microprocessor
• Alcoa considers upgrading Wagerup refinery
• Cable modems
• “Green” compressor lubricant
• Safety harnesses
• Tap fitting
• 900mA Li-Ion battery charger
• Single-chip silicon tuner
• PXI has ‘competitive edge over VXI-based test kit’
• Self-retracting lifeline
• Bus termination controller
• Helicopter facilities contract
• High-performance digital amplifier solution
• Turbine blade manufacturing software
• Hooded roof fans for factories
• Transient voltage suppressor families
• Paddle switch housing
• Modular systems
• Another record month for vehicle sales
• Eriflex insulated flexible busbar
• Telescopic pneumatic cylinder
• Desktop tools for technical professionals
• Stand-alone 4-port transceivers
• Fibre optic universal data transceiver
• Carter Holt Harvey earnings down 5%
• $19 minimum wage increase
• 3-in-1 check screener
• Welding backing tape
• Fastest point-of-load converter modules
• Antifatigue safety matting
• Safety net wage decision ‘worrying’: AiG
• Miniaturised SMD IR receiver modules
• Weatherproof one-piece console range
• 32-Bit RISC MCU family
• Multirate limiting amplifiers
• Carton and tray coding printer
• Australian technology expands telecom capacity
• Thermal management ‘most significant design challenge’
• Low cost float level switches
• 100V fully integrated Buck bias regulator
• WA alumina project gets $US192m approval
• Tilt switch for mining and process
• Outsourcing to Asia not for ally
• Industry plan flags expansion for aerospace sector
• Supply chain ignorance a concern
• Eight channel remote indicator
• 4MHz synchronous step-down regulator
• MCU with colour LCD controller
• PalmSource and Microsoft tie in PDA OS battle
• Mainstream next step for Bluetooth
• Ultra-fast recovery epitaxial diodes
• Energy recovery savings being ignored
• New range of stretch wrappers
• Virus masquerading as cure
• Comprehensive range of proximity sensors
• Modular automation system.
• Victorian budget released
• Power disturbance protection system
• Flow computers
• USB Flash to become top storage format
• Sensing ioniser for static elimination
• High voltage controller
• Triple output power supplies
• EPCglobal compliant RFID chip
• Valve actuator master module
• Full line catalogue
• Gas detector and warning system
• Freeze drying system
• Orica announces $122m profit in first half
• Distributed power converters
• R&D spending up 23% in 2000-2002
• Dessicant dryers for tight spaces
• Dust collectors
• NEMA motor guide.
• Feature recognition: CAD/CAM’s future
• Toolmaking centre opens its doors
• Fire at OneSteel’s Whyalla plant
• Employer’s obligations to maternity leave employees
• Cottee’s packaging guilty of misleading
• Insulating antifatigue mat
• Internet job ads reach record high
• Scientific programmable calculator
• Study predicts big gains from US FTA
• Hosted technology on a pay-per-user basis
• $5m in grants for small businesses
• Tenix delivers frigate to Navy
• Touch screen terminals
• Homework delivers implementation success
• Plug-on clip for commissioning
• 2/4 stroke engines
• Redundant Ethernet switch
• Six Sigma: analyse sources of variation
• Manufacturers urged to stand out
• ERP II offers supply chain for SMEs
• Handheld computers
• I/O plug-in modules
• Manufacturing holds firm but growth uneven