News Archive - January 2005

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

• Paint sprayers/stripers
• Thin-film flat-chip resistors
• Packaging for appeal
• Rio Tinto director dies suddenly
• Manufacturing employees unhappy with training opportunities
• Gloves are on at Ansell
• VFFS and distribution systems
• Insulated gate bipolar transistor
• MMIC VCOs with integrated buffer amplifiers
• Integrated power management IC
• Safety in pictures
• Industry reaction to new opposition leader
• Automation management and control software
• Locust bean gum range extended
• Telescopic cylinders with integrated valves
• VRD increases welding safety level
• Temperature sensor
• Amazonian antioxidant is berry fruity
• Accurate and efficient steel cutting
• Rail mounted terminal blocks
• Multi-vendor, multi-layer email security platform
• Custom hearing protection made in minutes
• Liquid foods packaging machine
• Convenient, portable gas detection
• Bluescope announces investments in China
• Signet moves to meet market demand
• Quarter-inch precision condenser microphone
• Quad-voltage tracker/sequencer
• Diaphragm Seal for severe conditions
• Development module provides hundreds of vision tools
• Bumper crop for winemakers
• Round rocker switches
• Full-colour plate labels
• Controller module
• 100mA to 1A Li-Ion charger
• Calibration station
• Optical surveying tool
• Miniature motor with integral encoder
• Structured ASICs accelerate design
• Plastic security ties
• Low friction chains and belts
• Miniature contrast sensor
• PacPrint '05 almost sold out
• 2005 flat, 2006 growth
• Nine-bit voltage/current DAC
• Metso appoints Asia-Pacific president
• Miniature disc couplings
• RF analysis: It’s about time
• Digital radio taking off
• Unions welcome UK electronics plan
• Manufacturing execution systems for tobacco industry
• Overcoming the hype of mobile data
• Magnetic lifting systems for steel coils
• Former Goldman Sachs MD appointed to BHP board
• IP67 rated stainless steel servomotors
• Aussies take up export challenge
• Battery powered linear measuring system
• 30A point-of-load converter modules
• Grade 2205 stainless steel
• CNC surface roughness system
• Steels control distortion in gearbox transmissions
• Digital drive motion coordinator
• Areva sells services business
• Bushings and plugs for thick panels
• Job planning solution for printers
• High efficiency synchronous boost converter
• Gas filter correlation CO2 analyser
• Santos announces $1500m in sales in 2004
• Multinational team seeks to advance hydrogen technology
• Transparent electronics; Refreshing change for DRAM; Children shouldn’t use mobiles; TV news IS depressing; iPod shuffle is a bit Flash.
• Digital TIME welding process
• Five axis laser system
• FPGAs, CPLDs strive to beat the heat
• Asia Pacific customer care centre
• Flash drive with software functions
• Low-cost frequency inverter
• Fieldbus solutions play key role in site cleanup
• Insulation stripping tools
• Heavy-duty label printer
• Industrial mechanical register
• Magnetic cylinder sensor
• Data acquisition devices
• Low-level emergency illumination
• Drivers behind award winners
• Improved testing reduces construction times
• Microprocessor reference book
• Yallourn saves stacks with wireless video solution
• TOP TEN FOOD TRENDS FOR 2005
• Cordless desktop
• Emerson wins $4m contract to automate nickel/cobalt mine
• Knifegate valves
• US consumer electronics sales jump
• Group promotes 3LCDs
• Nozzles for flexible hosing
• Grundfos acquires Alldos
• Programmable operator interface
• Bridgestone reports $10.86m profit for 2004
• Fonterra milk production down
• Rockwell, Endress+Hauser join forces
• Upgradeable grade control systems
• Business Outlook: flour mill product manufacturing
• Wireless mouse and ac/dc adaptor for Apple notebooks
• Business Outlook: fruit and vegetable processing
• Overhead conveyor systems
• Signal isolator/converters
• Over 4000 free instrument drivers
• New vehicle sales dip in December
• 21% of unemployed people unemployed for 12 months or more
• Safety first, excellence second
• Honeymoon’s over for Covenant
• True rms to dc conversion ICs
• Continuous motion rotary tablet counter
• Fonterra welcomes ACCC ruling on National Foods
• Carter Holt Harvey reports NZ$435m profit for 2004
• New face for canned food association
• Inductive safety system
• Multi core hits consumer market
• 19-inch flat panel monitor
• 28V cordless power tools
• Electronic product catalogue
• Remote monitoring for microcomputer systems
• Business Outlook: dairy product manufacturing
• FIELDBUS INTO THE FUTURE
• ASSAULT ON WASTE
• Digital air permeability tester
• Alarms delivered through the Web
• FPGAs, CPLDs strive to beat the heat
• Business Outlook: confectionery manufacturing
• In Brief
• High quality surfaces in hard part turning
• Light curtain for automation
• Business outlook: soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing
• Thermon Purchases FibreForm
• Business Outlook: pet food manufacturing
• Business Outlook: poultry processing
• Samtec releases full line catalogue
• Multi-channel fibre-optic sensors
• Pump selection and system design software
• The value of single-step storage
• Space-saving ultrasonic sensor
• Business Outlook: oil and fat manufacturing
• Sulphuric acid spill
• Industrial Relations Commission removes protection from Bluescope strikes
• Employer optimism on rises across the country
• New hazardous substances database released
• Steam isolation valves
• Business Outlook: milk and cream processing
• Business Outlook: cake and pastry manufacturing
• Business Outlook: meat processing
• Business Outlook: wine manufacturing
• Business Outlook: ice cream manufacturing
• Web headline compulsory
• Short hole drilling
• Video filter/drivers
• Business Outlook: cereal food and baking mix manufacturing
• Ultrasonic flowmeters
• Real time spectrum analyser
• PET recycling facility
• Audio amplifiers
• Power supply sequencer
• Southcorp turns down Foster’s bid
• Anti-vibration gloves
• Eight-bit MCU with ADC and onboard data EEPROM
• Easy-to-mount discharge resistor module
• Business outlook: biscuit manufacturing
• Guardmaster industrial safety products take the name Allen-Bradley Guardmaster.
• Caution urged against cyclamate reduction
• Overcoming the hype of mobile data
• Manufacturing forecast predicts moderate growth to underpin investment buildup
• US consumer electronics sales jump
• Goodman Fielder balances the blends
• Business Outlook: bread manufacturing
• 40MHz PIC microcontrollers
• Drive operator panels
• Group promotes 3LCDs
• High brightness beacons
• Salt into steel
• Scientists make better wine from less water
• Electromechanical dosing pumps
• Non-jamming hopper valves
• Business Outlook: beer and malt manufacturing
• Plasma cutting systems
• US/Mexico trip to promote Australian gas potential
• Bluescope claims union damaging Australian manufacturing
• Punch grinding machine
• Plain bearings for underwater applications
• Single board computer
• Remote access to servers
• Business Outlook - seafood processing
• Variable speed drives
• WLAN focus on audience interaction
• Saccharin increase welcomed
• Protective gloves for chemical handling
• Wall-mounted and table top enclosures
• Pushbutton pendants
• Power management unit for portable devices
• Tomato juice gets to the heart of disease
• Business Outlook - bacon, ham and smallgood manufacturing
• Business Outlook - food manufacturing
• Unemployment drops to 5.1%
• Global trends revealed at US consumer electronics show
• Multigas monitor for mining applications
• Murray Goulburn installs checkweigher
• Lead-free soldering
• Agricultural tyres
• Incremental encoder
• Gain-selectable difference amplifier
• FoodPro Sets the Standard in 2005
• Business Outlook - spirit manufacturing
• Corrosive liquid pumps
• Electronic fuse remedies inadequate trip capability of automatic circuit breakers
• Low-friction engineering plastic
• Diffuse laser with background suppression
• High speed servo-driven lifting.
• Air flotation pads
• CalAir hits the expansion trail
• New virus tops December list
• Industry collaboration merges platforms
• Fully enclosed hygienic mixer
• Plastic LCD panels grow
• DC-to-DC converters take AC market share
• Researchers weave nanofabric
• Bluetooth radio scanner
• Flexible tooling solution
• Reed Elsevier moves into tenders market
• Easy-to-install push buttons
• Filing cabinets, cupboards and lockers
• Trend estimate wine sales dip
• Car makers differentiate with electronics
• GaN transistor costs slashed
• Material promises cheaper water treatment
• Dual-phase boost converter
• Rolling element bearing monitoring device
• Metso appoints western region sales manager
• Australian business less optimistic about growth
• Storage solutions supplier ISO certified
• Champion a triple champion
• Boost and inverting dc/dc converter
• Six-pack shrinkwrapping technology
• Support Centre Practices certification for tech support centre
• Pfizer awards storage/distribution contract
• N-Channel MOSFET with UMOS-4 technology
• Cableless I/O modules
• Chemical spill containment devices
• Innovative cameras for industrial imaging
• Build your own multitask machining solution
• Streamlining design and manufacture
• Automated train batch loading system
• Fluid power safety educational workshops
• First workplace fatality of 2005
• Newspaper job ads down 3.4% in December; internet job ads down 0.6%
• 512-megabit mobile RAM devices
• Pressure sewer systems package
• Many innovations in business software
• Strong government support for Australian manufacturing
• 2D fabric could lead to single-molecule computers
• Quad video architecture board
• Gas pressure sensors
• Audio codecs for portable multimedia
• High peformance integrated SiGe mixer
• Portable pyrometer for high temperatures
• 48V hot swap controller
• RISC Computer on module
• Field monitors for pH/ORP and EC
• Fibre optics resist heat, chemicals and impact
• Compact IGBT modules
• Vertical RoHS-compliant D-Sub connectors
• DY relay
• Green power contracts for British Telecom
• High-current inductor series expanded
• Research on “more electric” engines
• Automated electrode design system
• Strong year end demand in services industry
• Report suggests redesign for cockpits and dashboards
• Human modelling software
• Signet to hold Manly Surf Club Carnival