News Archive - June 2004

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

• Australian-owned business abroad earns $126bn
• Extreme performance oil additive
• Compressed air mass flowmeter
• VoIP quality management solution
• Wireless module one-box test set
• Fellowship dollars on offer
• High velocity flow switch
• PNP transistor
• Power plant to cut greenhouse gas
• Innovonics wins London Underground contract
• IBM advanced process recognised
• Arrow offers lead free advice
• New era of signal analysers
• Howard pledges $5m to Tasmanian mill
• I2C-bus interface real time clock
• Data capture and data logging devices
• Trans-Tasman consumer protection survey
• Temperature monitoring needle sensors
• Backlash-free flexible couplings
• Miniature inductive proximity switches
• Enhanced high performance spectrum analysers
• Exports up but deficit steady
• Ultra-thin audio amplifier
• Economical inductive sensor range
• VC invests in Aussie RFID start-up
• Non-destructive residual stress analysis
• Portable appliance safety tester
• Filling machine for chilled products
• CAD & CAM go hand-in-hand
• Over $10bn in opportunities on offer
• Wireless USB receives open standard boost
• Crane Group cuts over 400 jobs
• Semi cycle sweetens
• Eight-bit microcontrollers
• Temperature controlled soldering station
• Triple output switching regulator
• Torpedo maintenance contract
• Full steam ahead for Avery Denison
• Positive employment sentiment
• Armchair mining software for the indoor man
• Web headline compulsory
• Multi-gas sampling has embedded control
• New thermal website
• Terex wins HWE supply deal
• The only way is up
• Westfarmers wins sustainable development award
• Quality hazard information goes online
• Is your plant economically optimised?
• High velocity flow switch measures up
• WA inquiry set to investigate BHPBIO safety practices
• Web headline compulsory
• If I had a hammer…
• AC makes it easy
• Get more metal from your acid
• MCA says “we can’t go it alone”
• All mixed up
• Next generation grease meter released
• There’s no need to sling your hook
• Screen’s between coal and a hard rock
• Benchmarking your way to productivity
• Mining boom on way?
• Order puts a bounce in suppliers stride
• MCA welcomes Auslink
• FOUNDATION Fieldbus interfaces for Logix controllers
• Wireless LAN and Bluetooth solutions
• Low dropout regulators
• I(2)C TO 1-Wire line drivers
• Wattyl exits US business
• Agen settles Synbiotics litigation
• Thin integrated circuits
• World-first in virtual diagnostics
• STEM research proves lucrative
• Purifier provides breath of fresh air
• World record conveyor
• Zinifex goes wireless at Century
• Qld looks good for magnesium smelter project
• Coal spot market heats up
• Compressed air mass flowmeter can help cut plant energy costs
• Air necessities
• Australian wins top environmental mining award
• Scope of strategic scheduling software spreads
• Safety show set to shine in Sydney
• VMEC joins MCA for greater clout
• Tighten your belts
• AngloGold and Cat add their weight to CRCMining
• Gunns investigates Tasmanian mill
• Modular head system to revolutionise heavy-duty strapping machinery
• Bi-rotary machining head
• Keeping athletes on their feet
• NSW Food Industry Directory
• New beef quality gene marker
• Confectionery convention in Paradise
• Food industry gripper
• Flexible energy supply system
• Visy wins top POS display award
• Coles plays tag with RFID technology
• Export success driven by wine
• Export potential in Russia
• Aristocrat chairman steps down
• Nominations open for agribusiness awards
• Comment sought on sustainability
• Directory of local machinery companies
• Times, they are a changin’
• FSANZ seeks nutrition data
• National Foods wins 3-year milk contract
• Southcorp centralises production
• Visualisation system for dispersed engineers
• Milk builds better bones in Chinese girls
• ALP trashes junk food ads
• Thin film resistor networks
• Nautronix wins two Navy contracts
• AIP forum shows RFID just around the corner. Or is it?
• Fellowships to boost local manufacturing
• Leading sponsors lose ground as brewers gain
• Interfaces for Logix controllers
• Attenuator and pulse suppressor for EMC testing
• Agilent forms alliance with CST
• Australian designed opacity monitor
• Flue gas opacity and O2 measurement
• EDA software for circuit design
• $400 million Sydney residential development
• Foreign businesses provide 65% of imports
• Brambles streamlines CHEP organisation
• Automatic component identification
• Analogue card with eight parallel units
• Signal source analyser
• First flight for super jumbo engine
• Major iron ore contract with China
• Telecom cost management solution
• Former navy chief joins Austal
• Micromachined memories to replace pure silicon
• Structured ASICs address cost challenge
• Bosspak takes tablet counter to Asia
• 95% efficient dc/dc buck converter
• Ultrawideband in the spotlight
• Australia ‘first to show quantum encryption’
• Dairy farmers cautious on future
• Enhanced range of Unix software
• Progressive scan colour industrial camera
• Four megapixel industrial camera
• Stand-alone LIN bus transceiver IC
• Unix server for small business
• High-performance general-purpose amplifiers
• Robust reusable multigas detector
• Warehouse solutions for food exporters
• Pallet bumper affords product protection
• Injection moulding technology doubles output
• Programmable microcontroller with embedded Bluetooth
• Single-chip ADSL solution
• Gas assist injection moulding technology
• AEEMA outlines vision of ‘connected home’
• New Zealand goes high tech
• Ai Group critical of NSW budget
• The ‘revolutionary’ Magnasphere switch
• Oscillator and ceramic weld backings
• High speed reach truck with offset mast
• Economical three-phase power switching
• PCB mount FUP fuseholder
• SMT fuse protection to 50A/63V
• Four PCI motion controller boards
• Power entry module with line switch
• Run-around energy recovery
• Flow and dosing controller
• Linux open source expands in Queensland
• Wireless dataloggers superceded
• Dc power supply and load unit
• Bench-top power supply unit
• Electronic control of filling valves
• Printers help exporter meet targets
• Portasol gas-powered tools
• Six-pin microcontrollers
• Containers for cold transport
• Industry reform - an important step
• Cordless voice module
• Recycled corrugated and plastic packaging
• Forum on terrorism
• Warehousing wake up call
• Additional gas supplies for winter
• $24m for biofuels industry
• New vehicle sales up
• Wireless LAN baseband processor
• Breakthrough in touch technology
• Oil concentration measurement
• Automation upgrade for high thru-put line
• Smart supply chain show 2005
• SNACK ATTACK: NOT GUILTY
• Live video broadcast package
• Poor risk assessment leads to poor design
• BHP OH&S inquiry terms set
• Modular low profile conveyors
• Power steering fluid
• Safe and efficient materials handling
• Queensland ethanol plan
• Canny solutions challenge conventions
• RotaTherm debuts in America
• Call to aggressively pursue safety
• CHH to buy Chinese panels business
• PROS AND CONS OF RFID
• High pressure clean and capture system
• A ‘CAN DO’ INDUSTRY
• Common database for graphical symbols
• Cutting oils and fluids
• AGT Biosciences merges with ChemGenex
• Big win for safety and the environment
• Strategic success to train control system
• Custom snacks at touch of a button
• Zenith Awards 2004 surpass expectations
• Metering single chip solution
• Clued up on what to do with glue
• Be alarmed - and rest easy
• Processor cores
• Digital valve controller
• Big win for major gas processing upgrade
• Greater automation results in better supply
• Finest attention paid to the detail
• Environment Minister defends White Paper
• Crystal oscillators
• More MES for less
• Stock picking and pallet stacking
• Precision press brakes
• Enterprise reporting: Amcor sticks with Cognos
• Variable speed drives
• $250m Queensland Defence contract
• Local drive solution centres
• Digital interface architecture for LCD TVs
• 30V MOSFETs
• SMT rotary encoder with push-switch
• Ball valve and gate valve lockout
• New business intelligence solution
• Connectivity buzz connects cities
• Asian markets: the big picture
• 16-Bit DAC
• GPE welcomes energy plan ‘in principle’
• IEEE injector/ejector handles
• Access at the touch of finger
• Yokogawa users share success stories
• Universal low profile serial cards
• Act protects industrial designs
• CompactPCI active extender card
• Iluka to upgrade DCS at Narngulu plant
• New global standard defines bus protocols
• SCM strategy and solution
• Current-mode PWM controllers
• Hutchison launches virtual keyboard
• Gold Peg strengthens its muscle
• Lockout/tagout training
• Safe maintenance management solution
• Instant absolute quadrature output
• Two-phase synchronous dc/dc controller
• Low cost frame grabber family
• Export labelling solution
• Alicyclobacillus test kit
• Advanced waterproof circular recorder
• Retail-ready packaging
• Five trends emerge in process automation
• Ai Group welcomes energy statement
• Laser bar code scanner
• Versatile power supply tester
• Collaborative sales budgeting software tool
• Electromechanical training simulation software
• High-end steam energy manager
• Flow, density, and temperature measurement
• Cooker technology takes off at show
• AMF obtains vertical machining centre
• Effective testing of ERP systems
• Pneumatic lockout device
• Multiple lockout device
• Circuit breaker lockout
• Tester for motor speed sensors
• LED indicator beacons
• ATX power supply tester
• Single-slot high-speed PXI digitisers
• Handheld rugged digital thermometers
• Breathing-air purifiers
• 5V single-output eighth-brick dc/dc converters
• Release pump for mobile equipment brakes
• Victorian OH&S conference
• Federal funding sought for 'green energy' project
• Safety Show set to double in size
• Mamma mia! Leggo’s is world’s best
• $500m for low emission technologies
• Comprehensive alarm management system
• Universal single-phase power regulators
• Steady employment growth prospects
• Semi sales smash all records
• X-Box winner
• Variable displacement lightweight hydraulic pump
• Trained to improve performance
• A new recipe for waste reduction
• Strong food exports despite drought and dollar
• Horizontal spray dryer for powders
• Complete board-level design system
• Low cost controller with setpoint profiling
• Semiconductor giants unite on lead free
• Extended range of coordinate robots
• Controllers for combustion industry
• Tungsten grinders for arc welders
• Floor leveller
• Ultrawideband gains official endorsement and 120 members
• Leighton awarded major casino project
• Robots improve safety when handling gas cylinders
• Advanced servo-pneumatic control system
• Spray dryer for nutraceutical products
• Unified solution for FPGAs, structured and full ASICs
• Asia Pacific demand prevents ASIC downturn
• Mechanical design software upgrade
• Diesel-powered high-pressure blaster
• Siemens automation and control tour
• Contract pharmaceutical packager expands
• RetaiI ready push
• Chilli sauce turns up heat on exports
• Jumping on the gravy train
• Local drive solution centres
• Radio for robotic total stations
• License-free radio solution
• Air knife assemblies
• Eight high-performance serial interfaces
• Cheaper prices send broadband soaring
• DRINKING AT A PREMIUM
• Advanced waterproof circular recorder
• FOOD Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) believes that there is no food safety concern for any consumers, including infants, from the chemical semicarbazide which is found in some foods packaged in glass jars.
• Reverse buckling disc
• Rotary screw compressors
• First two-way smooth operation cylinders
• High-level scan function library
• Rice in top 100 low GI foods
• Portable reactive phosphate monitor
• National Foods wins 3-year milk contract
• Cheddar’s popularity spreads
• Range for food sensitive babies
• The beans that count
• Sales contract signed for GSM handsets
• ‘Green’ food
• Feeling good about functional foods
• FOSHU: Japanese for health use
• Distance measurement device
• Three turning guides
• FOOD MAGAZINE FORUM
• Halal the way
• A nice pair
• Open up with open source
• Laser printer with touch-screen interface
• Vertical Form Fill Seal machine
• Diesel engines with various crankshaft ends
• Spray analysis and research
• Airpork: pigs can fly
• Energy efficient solution
• Supply chain - in reverse
• A mix of ethical and technological recipes
• It all began with a clean sheet of paper …
• Manufacturing sector weakens
• Water-free urinals
• Cargo loading system
• Structural tests for aeroplanes
• Energy manager steams ahead
• Dryer range for tight spaces
• Infrared temperature measurement
• Technology removes guesswork
• New LabVIEW driver standards
• Singapore burger smuggling
• Device calibration more advanced
• Flying insect control
• Ambient air quality analysers
• Integrating nephelometer (visibility monitor)
• Management control technology
• Innovation tour
• Smart camera
• Campbell selects Cognex machine vision
• Honda releases new car
• Connectivity processors
• Dual magnetic field sensor
• FEN Progress Awards scholarships give back to industry
• Photoelectric switches
• $30 million Coca-Cola plant online
• Photoelectric switch sets new standards
• MCU with built-in LCD controller
• Web-enabled DDC controller
• Dual low noise micropower LDO
• Two-phase dual dc/dc controller
• High-speed transistor optocoupler
• Diodes for digital transmission/reception
• Wireless, cardless, keyless access
• SOT supervisor monitors six supplies
• Efficiency gains from DPAK transistors
• Automatic rotary weld system
• Volume measurement system
• HHG chairman defends high salaries
• GDM connectors for industrial applications
• Urban rail underfloor lifting system
• Low power AVR microcontrollers
• Perfect position converter pin technology
• Non-fragmenting bursting discs
• Risk management package
• More employees working overtime
• Resistor Arrays
• Configurable ac/dc power supplies
• Connectors for corrosive environments
• Eight kilobit and 16kb serial EEPROM
• Insulated mains plug packs
• Selection guide to basic instruments
• PBL board and management restructure
• Next generation set-top box solution
• Optical fibre transmitters and receivers
• Serial data oscilloscope analysis package
• Industrial machinery power supplies
• MGI stake in $1 billion business park
• Enhanced bandwidth oscilloscope and probe amplifier
• Digital design and debug solutions
• Sealed D-sub connectors
• Sealed pushbuttons
• Green's Foods appoints new MD
• TCP/IP connectivity for embedded systems designs
• Real time kernel
• High-linearity mixer for 3G base stations
• PWM controller for power systems
• Flare nut and panel mount flare fitting
• 15" LCD PC
• Low cost indicators with alarms
• Accurate and precise fibre analyser
• Handheld power quality analysers
• Computer board
• Automated instrument management system
• Eden-based compact board
• Inductive proximity sensors
• First commercial IC for X-Architecture
• Vietnam reduces Australian wine tariffs
• Paper-thin packages enable slim mobiles
• Global trends analysis of food safety
• Foster’s makes $270m in write downs
• Radiometer probe
• Court sets Boral case timetable
• Non-destructive residual stress analysis
• Economic growth continues more slowly
• Dual dc/dc controller
• Sales budgeting tool
• Devices online with PowerCad
• Pulse width modulation controller
• Flexible range of RFID solutions
• Digital I/O devices
• Paperboard handling down to an art
• Business confidence dropping
• Multigas monitor
• Dual server with Hot Swap HDD
• Coates extends coverage in Central NSW
• Newspaper job ads down, internet ads up
• CMC fires second Sytec engine
• AusLink gets Ai Group support
• Leak test and detection system
• Touch screen terminals with Ethernet
• Study predicts FTA losses
• Temperature sensor and fan controller
• Contamination proof butterfly valve
• Stainless steel sand filtration systems
• Roof and wall sealer
• Power manager and battery charger
• ACCC takes action against Boral
• Web-based power supply toolkit
• Pentium 4 compact board
• Active Web server
• Sanitary lighting system
• Stock picker and pallet stacker
• Bottle depalletiser
• High-speed palletiser
• Peter Lehmann Wines announces record crush
• Signal Isolator
• Carbon dioxide purifiers
• Sweetener levels pose no risk: FSANZ survey
• Internet job ads at three-year high
• Austal signs Hawaiian ferry contract
• Digital input monitor
• Pin headers for IDC systems
• Infra-red for warmer workplaces
• SCSI adaptor for PMC based systems
• RF amplifiers
• Economic growth slowing
• High performance wear protection plates
• Two new spray coating systems
• Product testing power source
• All-in-one industrial computer
• Unidirectional single-phase stepper motors.
• Single board computer with Flash memory
• Enterprise mobility gets easier
• MPG Feed – safety and speed
• Not just another laser
• Indicating pressure transmitter/switch
• Online supply chain solution
• Compiler speeds time to market
• Modular embedded control system
• Service sector growth steadies
• Strict regulations for exporting food to USA
• Low EMI microprocessor
• New ink formulations for carton printers
• Petrol prices fail to damage car sales
• Long-range data capture devices.
• Air-operated production vice
• Dump truck wear protection plates
• McGuigan's crush a record tonnage
• Metal that grows stronger in the sun
• Explosion-proof electronic vibration switch
• Synchronous rectification MOSFET
• Pressure transmitter
• Innovative approach to pneumatics
• ICA conveyors create setting for ABB robots
• Food safety conference in Adelaide
• Embedded microprocessors
• Vertical form fill seal machine
• Death blow to innovation
• Air New Zealand billion dollar upgrade
• ISM band transceiver
• Integrated development environment
• Nylex chairman resigns
• Minerals and energy capacity to grow strongly
• Bluetooth chip for handheld terminals
• Food exporters’ guide to Indonesia
• Business systems integration solution
• Parmesan bid draws fire
• Plug-in dc-to-dc converters
• 10V step-up dc/dc converter
• Video signal conditioner family
• Integrated processor support family
• First ZigBee-ready chipset
• Rail-to-rail I/O instrumentation amp
• UPS with standard 3-pin outlets
• Searchlight for night and IR use
• Wireless broadband begins rollout
• Ellendale Pipe find - first in 30 years
• Phone still the most popular comms device
• Medical safety company wins $2.4m grant
• Lowest power CPLD alternative
• Demand-driven manufacturing solution
• Low cost 16-bit ADC
• 15MHz sweep/function generator
• Multiphase PWM controller
• Manufacturing lift fails to take off
• Southcorp 2004 vintage intake
• High speed serial port transceiver
• Enterprise-class KVM switch
• MEMS chip boosts wine industry
• Technology jobs at risk, says ACS
• GM food passes labelling test
• Reschke wins bull fight
• Eco-efficiency project
• Woollies sells Moorebank distribution centre
• Strengthening exports
• Sims Group acquires tyre recycler
• Small business welcomes redundancy exemption
• LDO for automotive applications
• Double scissor lift trolley
• VSD configuration cloning module
• Redflex wins US Air Force contract
• Two-way smooth operation cylinders
• Quad differential line driver
• New range of labeling products
• High voltage standard induction motor
• World's lowest cost modem
• VSD monitoring and configuration
• Test for staphylococcal enterotoxins
• The price is right: AFGC
• Global dairy alliance supports WTO