News Archive - February 2005

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

• More than 4000 instrument drivers – free
• Batching software for processing plants
• Caltex posts $352 million profit
• Scrap chopper for plastic strapping
• Warehouse management module for financial software
• Profibus configuration software
• Compiler technology improves code performance and execution speed
• Controllers handle up to eight axes for small applications
• Liquid/solid separator
• Heavy-duty arc stud welder
• Tiny actuators pack a 45 kilo-Newton punch
• Plastic liners reduce wear, clogging and noise
• 6A MOSFET gate driver
• Compact rechargeable flashlight
• Couplings with aluminum hubs
• Enterprise resource planning software
• AEEMA, EIA join forces again for third national conference
• Carrier-controlled dispatch management system
• CARGO IMBALANCE WILL HURT SHIPPERS
• Lighting up the Cell
• Point-to-point chipset wins design award
• High performance clock generator
• Dual ideal diodes deliver 2.6A
• TNT to build in Melbourne
• Twin surface mount PTC thermistors
• Flash coolers, preheaters and flash evaporators
• Speed fills for Melbourne manufacturer
• Theory questions understanding of InGaN LEDs
• European electronics in transition
• Capital expenditure up in December quarter
• ITIL-compatible service management solution
• Wages rising for men and women
• Asia digest April 2005
• Furniture for educational and child care facilities
• PCI Express signal switches
• Pressure transmitters to 600 bar
• Surface mount microwave amplifiers
• Cores for power transformers
• DSPs head for US$8 billion
• BHP creates R&D alliance in China
• 17" LCD rear-mount touchmonitors
• Whiteboards and office accessories
• Emergency response trailer for Mildura
• Drying tunnel improves productivity
• Microsoft doesn’t double up on price
• Safety system for process automation applications.
• PC graphics making machinery control simpler
• Bioplastics in packaging at interpack 2005
• Microprocessor flame scanner
• Portable hydraulic bearing pusher
• Sandwich-style directional control valves
• IBC specialist DSL to move into Asia
• Cell clocks in at 4 GHz
• Absorbing oxygen key to packaging fresh meat
• Dual core for Intel
• FM4 analogue electrical indicator
• Control and signalling range.
• Ac leakage clamp meter
• Small business conditions good
• OPC Foundation joins industry cooperation project
• Magnetic field testing device
• Power LED driver
• Machinery control foot switches
• Sterile medical packaging demand rising
• Spray gun and paint mixing system
• LED lamp for ac power
• Scalable vision processor board
• High profile road win for Alstom
• BOPP most dynamic flexible packaging material
• Wal-Mart hiccups haven't stalled RFID
• PCA takes packaging public education role
• Pallet truck addresses safety issues
• Ageing stations spur power growth
• Advanced finite element analysis solution
• OneSteel announces 27% profit increase for six months to December 2004
• VI on National dial
• Citect, Schneider Electric to launch Unity FastLinx
• Honeywell, Yokogawa collaborate on fieldbus
• High-speed doors
• More patents for digital Coriolis mass flow meter
• OCD hardware migration plan
• Doors to safety
• Basic model melt plastometer
• Multihead weigh scales
• Horizontal cartoner offers short lead times
• Modified atmospheric package leak detector
• Industrial ATX motherboard
• Compact reactive phosphate monitor
• Computerised weighing machine
• Calibration software
• Connector system for decentralised controls
• Belt solution improves sanitation
• Robots within reach
• Bluescope announces $485m half-year profit
• Cool ways to chill
• Ink jet printer
• Manual mini stackers and heavy-duty power stackers
• Vibe-killer helps drive towards design award
• Pulsed laser vibrometers
• Parker Hannifin acquires Bayside Controls
• Safety culture needs leaders: professor
• Vehicle sales up in January
• ASEAN-Australia-NZ Free Trade Agreement talks begin
• Low-voltage buck regulators
• She’ll be right - not good enough
• Optical data transmission with Ethernet, CANopen and DeviceNet
• Wireless technology detects loggers from within shipping containers
• Flexible training system for electronics
• Plug and play converters
• DSL Packaging to move into South East Asia
• Four-port cell/packet over T1/E1/J1 single-chip transceiver
• Scitex Vision appoints local sales director
• Fibre optics communications half-day seminars
• Calibration system as strong as steel
• Brewery increases productivity with DT302
• Embedded technologies user conferences
• Balances at an affordable price
• Distance no barrier to learning
• Technology news in brief
• LVDS digital waveform generator/analysers
• Integrated stepper motor and drive
• For those chilly applications
• Digital tungsten inert gas system
• Miniature reflective optical sensor
• Success by design
• Remote controller for VXI systems
• Balances for quality management systems
• Static versus dynamic performance
• Two-port KVM switches
• Ball belt simplifies mechanical systems in diverter applications
• Rockwell drives down energy costs
• Privacy products present blank screen to casual observer
• Amplified miniature pressure sensors
• Leighton reports $90m first half profit
• Low-cost arbitrary waveform generator
• UTRAN network and service analyser
• Mixed signs for milk
• High capacity moisture analysers
• Power supply sequencer
• Sweep/function generator
• 3.5GHz frequency counter
• More than one third of businesses are innovators
• Dairy labelling and coding behind the times: Dymark
• ISO 9001 certification for pump manufacturer
• Learning to love Centrino
• Automation strategist safeguards machinery
• Forum for exploration and vision
• Network load test system
• Smart nut and bolt holder
• Touch monitors selected for partner program
• Variable voltage sources
• Modular door controller
• Adjustable buck regulator controller
• 2005 product catalogue
• GWF strengthens market position
• PXI saves 30 percent on missile test
• Soft error analysis reduces risk
• Pentium M-based ATX IPC motherboard
• Handheld computer for enterprise systems
• Dc power supply
• Goodman Fielder balances the blends
• Editor’s Choice: Bipolars reduce costs
• Bird flu - a major threat in Asia
• Holistic thinking now defines industrial automation
• PICmicro development resources
• Power amplifier modules
• Face drivers enable single operation machining
• Recognition for Aus nanotech company
• Advances in spray drying
• Machine vision and inspection systems
• Optocouplers in single or dual-channel configurations
• 45 nm faces the risks and rewards of new materials
• Sight-saving solution in seconds
• Dc/dc controller corrects voltage errors
• Camera Link image acquisition boards
• Editor’s Choice: Sampling up to 8 GS/s
• New sizes of threaded plugs and caps
• Flexible vinyl rectangular caps
• Step-up converter for white LED applications
• The waste solution of the future
• Automated biparting door
• Reflective optical sensor
• Electric pallet jack fits inside a truck
• Euro operators add EDGE to 3G rollouts
• LabVIEW selected for missile system test
• Walk out over national waste negotiations
• ASIA: A FESTIVAL OF FOOD
• Sliding door guide provides sure door lock
• Editors Choice: Secure control
• Editor’s Choice: Low voltage load switches
• SCSI bus terminator range
• Surface-mount clock oscillators
• Silicone seals and O-rings
• Meet the new pirates
• Mobile sales jump in Q4
• Frequency shift keying chipsets
• Aus invention improves firefighter safety
• Specialised safety at new Darwin fuel terminal
• High performance in a small package
• Front-end engineering design solution
• High dynamic range low noise amplifier
• Playing the China card
• Fabricating system for coils and blanks
• ADC targets PA linearisation
• COLOURS THAT CONSUMERS CRAVE
• EIA backs EDN Awards
• CHH Bell Bay mill survives
• Real time laser scanning inspection system
• WAN enhancement products for SMEs
• Editor’s Choice: Precision signal capture
• Fast dc/dc controller with margining, tracking and PLL capability
• Editor’s Choice: Soldering the RAAF way
• Throw away the mop and bucket
• CAD data increasing in value
• Wireless switch for campus-wide use
• Demand flow workshops
• Work assist vehicle
• Welding equipment and consumables
• BP to host FFB demo
• Wirewound surface-mount inductors
• Routers: gates between Ethernet worlds
• Sterile air for operating theatres
• SBCs with high performance graphics
• Asset management targeted
• Plasma cutting systems
• Multilane packaging machine
• Self-aligning LED spacer mounts
• Machine tool program
• “No moving parts” pump that can move water
• Award for process control company
• IT consolidation, more than just system management
• Implementation company expands
• CAD/CAM training boost for Uni
• Secure digital cards
• Recycled plastic bollards
• Protective footwear for metals industry
• High-performance fanless mini PC
• Polymer piping systems with welded joints
• Canadians say ‘oui’ to ERP package
• Altona engine block project will not be completed
• Cable drag chain for high loads and speeds
• Switchgear and fuse products.
• Visual sensor detects presence or absence
• Colliery turns down the volume
• Palm protection for using power tools
• Prestretch system for stretch tape
• Molten metal coating breakthrough
• WorkSafe takes safety message on the road
• Saving costs on in-bound storage
• Compactors and balers
• Drugs and alcohol a multi-billion dollar problem for Australian businesses
• Monitoring device detects burst pipes
• Production execution and management software
• Intelligent gripper system
• Controller with two communications ports
• Anodic oxidation water disinfection equipment
• Intelligent cameras for machine vision
• Robot installations bring rewards
• Industrial motherboard supports 2GB memory
• SIA scathing of new OH&S Act
• Embedded computer platform in EBX format
• High speed picker handling module
• Report highlights trade opportunities in Malaysia
• Bulk materials handling specialists
• Tractor rollover protection a life and death issue
• Eight new in-phase and quadrature mixers
• Mobile television tuner IC
• Cleaner coolant cuts costs
• Non-hydraulic pallet inverter
• Work platform aids boat renovation
• New generation of industrial controllers
• CompactLogix gets ControlNet communications
• Non-contact proximity sensors
• Code readers for parts, packages and labels
• OH&S solution taps into productivity increase
• Automation in powder processing line
• Pedestrians and forklifts don’t mix
• Unemployment rate holds at 5.1%
• Industrial control networking system
• Comment open on GM cotton
• Enginering firm standardises welding equipment
• Coal company invests in simulation
• Intelligent rostering system
• Automated ABN search saves time
• High speed 10-bit digitiser products
• Plastic strapping
• Australian designed Loop calibrator
• Beamex calibrators now fully accredited
• Integrated video test for 3G networks
• R&D benefits flow with factor finance
• Designer's Guide 2005 catalogue
• Lasers specs may mislead buyers
• Are you losing business when you lose employees?
• Demand for PET trays for convenience meals up
• Automation products on display
• Lean Manufacturing: creating visibility
• Standard motors becoming outdated
• Four-pin M12 automation connector
• Laboratory spill protection
• High powered, high speed synthesisers
• Ketchup and mayonnaise production plant
• Pump for handling thermal oil
• 3.3t LPG lift truck
• Modal shift
• Signal processor evaluation module
• Geared motors and gear units
• Materials handling equipment
• Fully automatic optical measuring system
• Programmable inductive proximity sensor
• Two-megapixel progressive scan colour camera
• Gap between researchers and industry to be bridged
• Industrial computer guinea pigs wanted
• ERP software decision support kit
• Tetra Pak has first microwaveable aseptic pack
• 16-bit monotonic V (out) DAC
• First 13GHz oscilloscope and probing system
• Safety-based controllers come of age
• Hearing relief for industrial workers
• Go green or go under: expert warns
• Manufacturing awards scheme now open
• Boral to build two new plasterboard plants in China
• Safety in the face of speeding forklifts
• 12-Bit, 185Msps ADC
• Forklift production hits 200k
• DVI software for scopes and probes
• Job shop installs slalom rolling machine
• Digital media cards for phones and digital devices
• Innovation patents system under fire
• Helping workers to help themselves with PPE
• Step up to safety with Branach step platform ladders
• Electro-pneumatic transducer
• Real-time oscilloscope jitter analysis tools
• Stepper motor drives and power supplies
• Outer wear stops oil, acid and grease
• Safety gear for the electrical industry
• More to wrenches than just torque
• Industrial manslaughter alternative
• Test solution proves chipset compliance
• Health and convenience continues to drive product growth
• Battery pack authentication IC
• 2MHz, 600mA dc-dc converters in SOT23-5 package
• Safety show to feature 250 specialists
• Steam-powered cars
• Breakthrough in jitter measurement accuracy
• Cleaning and protecting stainless steel
• Polo cooler than micromesh under the sun
• Is the big stick working for OH&S regulators?
• Calibrate signal generators with one instrument
• Newspaper job ads down 1.9% in January
• Supply voltage swing management
• Packaging bottlenecks given the wrap
• Proactive management reduces WorkCover premiums
• Safety features, sporty feel in Diadora footwear
• 4t, 4.5t and 5t forklifts
• Preventing falls no wasted effort
• Warehouse management system
• Hand trolley for beverages
• 2005 flat, 2006 growth
• Domestic wine sales dip in December
• Automatic lubricator
• Stainless steel stool for cleaner manufacturing
• Motion prototyping software
• EV/ET electronic valves
• Digital radio taking off
• Occupational health, safety and environment catalogue
• Radio frequency (RF) active mixers
• New electric forklift from Task
• Manual handling back on the agenda
• Supply chain management for SMEs
• CHH successful in takeover of Wadepack
• Single-axis servo controller and drive system with Ethernet and RS-232
• Structured ASICs accelerate design
• Services sector activity slows after strong six months
• Compressors from Sullair Australia tolerate northern Queensland climate
• Large area magnetic sweeper
• RF analysis: It’s about time
• Strong new car sales in January
• Siemens "micro automation" innovation tour
• Next generation in switching technology
• Every type of baler imaginable
• Non-slip fibreglass treads, grates and ladders
• Intelligent manufacturing - a leading light
• Small heatless desiccant dryers
• USB docking station
• MSM switch handles wide voltage range
• Twin-drum spiral oven
• Unions welcome UK electronics plan
• DAQs and GPIB drivers for Mac OS X
• Multichannel sensor signal processor
• End-to-end tracking and analysis solutions
• Briefly in electronics
• From head to toe in disposable clothing
• Functional foods face scrutiny
• Food & packaging events in 2005
• Machine operating condition monitoring
• Going with the grain
• Philmac aids tsunami and bushfire victims
• Audits made manageable
• Digitiser for the PCI platform
• Filter system for draining pits
• New calibration and repair company
• 40V, 200mA Micropower step-down dc/dc converter
• Alumina profits up last year
• Data acquisition devices
• Sweet success at global trade fair
• Food on classroom menu in 2005
• Delhi-belly be gone
• Carb with long lasting energy
• Federal Government plans criminal penalties for cartels
• Custom made, cost effective chairs
• Integrated dc-to-dc buck converter
• Period of corporate stability ends
• CWDM optical fibre communication semiconductor laser
• Victoria Cup a winner for SEW
• Two-phase step-up dc/dc controller without transformers
• 1-wire dual-channel programmable GPIO
• MANUFACTURING PASSION
• Wideband cascadeable gain block
• Employers to struggle to retain staff in 2005
• Low noise regulated charge pump doubler
• Emona 2005 instruments catalogue
• Boots and all in safety
• Machine, automation safety one-stop shop
• High speed conveyor for higher production
• Modular humidity measurement system
• Prime mover engine brakes silenced
• Pressure/temperature test tools
• Food Standards moots changes
• Transformer overpack
• 200MS/s 12-Bit digitiser
• Warehouse system implemented at Foster’s
• Desert plants - future lifesavers
• Machine vision system
• Vector modulator RFIC
• Let the machine do the lifting
• Manufacturing index settles after December rush
• UP FOR A CHALLENGE?
• LED lamp uses ac power
• Made to measure
• Wirewound/metal oxide resistor series
• New name for National Starch
• Audio codec for DVD-RW
• LED filament replacement solution
• High-speed digital camera
• Serially-controlled digital attenuators
• Entries open for Human Nutrition Award
• Directory of R&D service providers
• Programmable smart cameras
• Australian companies optimistic about 2005
• Waterproof and portable turbidimeter
• Avoiding the food trap
• Synchronous buck-boost regulator
• Getting more out of old cars
• High profiles a growing phenomenon
• Five steps to boost plant production
• Displays for bright environments
• Eight-port serial boards
• Self-paced first aid courses