News Archive - July 2005

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

• Stainless steel fixed-point gas monitor
• SPICE models for Linux, Unix and Windows
• Extrusion control systems
• Laboratory and industrial ultrasonic devices
• Skills body under pressure to deliver
• Surface-mount, wirewound inductor
• Low drop out voltage regulator
• Kraft-y cream cheese
• Toast to Simplot for Snackfoods Award
• Strong export outlook for manufacturers
• Wide range of telemetry products
• Pre-cut lidding solutions
• LDMOS field effect transistor
• Shrink fit adaptors for high-speed machining
• Broadband amplifier module to 12GHz
• D-sub vertical pressfit connectors
• Capacitor for power factor correction
• Food companies urged to harvest flexibility
• World's most powerful fibre laser
• Raw material price rises – will you be left to foot the bill?
• Huge storage tank facility completed
• Leaning towards growth solutions for industry
• Pneumatic range for OH&S
• High specification particle counter instruments
• Plastic valves in a range of styles and sizes
• Smallest five-button optical mini mouse
• Rigid couplings for precision motion control applications
• More to outsourcing than cheaper products
• Torque measurement and management products
• Fixed-frequency CCFL controller
• Amcor meets Frucor’s recycling challenge
• Ethernet network interface unit
• Grey water diverter system
• Radio frequency linear driver amplifier
• Comprehensive network inventory solution
• Business analysis software upgraded
• Portrait of a winner
• Digital air pressure gauge
• First 500mA VLDO regulator
• Irrigation design service
• High Trees grind to the top
• Proof of pudding in the making
• Facemills with exchangeable cassettes
• Bluetooth module for mobile phones
• 64kHz composite clock transceiver
• 1.5MHz/2.25MHz, 600mA synchronous step-down regulator
• Low-cost microcontroller starter kit
• How to save on labelling consumables
• Inline process refractometer products
• Micromotors achieve stall torque of 2.89mNm
• Chemical solenoid valve
• Fine dining at the desk
• First pouch paperboard machine
• Bioplastics Association to launch in Australia
• Double beam spectrophotometer range
• Green light for new Covenant
• Flexographic printing machines
• Honey, I shrunk the packaging
• Film converting machinery
• Dc–dc converters with synchronous rectifier circuit
• Single photons distributed for quantum cryptography
• Humidity indicator and compressed air dryer
• Spray booth filter
• Low-phase-noise frequency synthesisers
• Second generation solid state relays
• Brass solenoid valve
• Blending systems for dry products.
• Vertical-mount POL converters
• Bulk fluid handling solutions
• Industrial-grade keyboard
• Absorptive filter and ferrite junction circulator
• High-Q, high-frequency capacitor kits
• Sweet success is a Ripper
• The right chemistry for the UV cure
• Keys to ‘Greener’ printing
• Smart indicator light
• ‘Hard Hat’ diesel-powered compressors
• Double skinned, foam-filled sectional doors
• Full steam ahead at Birds Eye
• U-shaped electrical housing slots
• Plug-in surge protection for process I/O
• Accurate internal grooving in small holes
• Aseptic filler for UHT milk and milk-based PET mixed drinks
• Multipurpose machining tool
• Dominion backs ‘tomorrow’s engineers’
• Press-setting system stacks up accolades
• Chinese electronics’ great leap forward
• Airborne particle testing
• Industry’s hall of fame expands
• CHH to consolidate Victorian carton sites
• 64-bit, X86 multi-core processors
• Non-embeddable inductive proximity switches
• Butterfly or ball valve electric actuator
• Pallet trucks for harsh environments
• Rheology - understanding flow behaviour
• On-line viscosity data collection
• Safety cones, barriers and signs keep traffic and parking safe
• Higher performance extended to notebook computers
• Embedded technology user conferences
• Solid Edge display in Townsville
• IT service management solution
• NI controllers increase real-time performance
• New era in 64-bit mobile computing
• Tubular type simplex strainer
• Automated press brake bending cell
• Safety signs
• HACCP: pre-requisites for success
• Trend estimate motor sales dip 0.3% in June
• System fills carbonated soft drinks and water
• Digital multifunctional timers
• Lighting balloons
• Device for sound and vibration measurements
• Entry-level thermal printer
• Laser and punch combination machine
• LionOre goes it alone at Black Swan
• World’s ‘largest’ cell launched
• BHP Billiton secures $US4.3 billion sales contract
• Aged and heath care catering push
• Gold still glisters, but not dazzling
• Out-of-band infrastructure solution
• Rivets installed without tools
• Multi-platform fax server
• Carter Holt posts $NZ113m half year profit
• Vibration control for PCs
• Sheetmetal specialist on the move
• Turn-key packaging systems
• Wireless presentation controller with LCD timer
• Worry-free wireless device servers
• Staff expansion bolsters materials handling specialist
• Browser-driven media server
• Appliance testing log book system
• Mining news in brief
• CME welcomes safety findings
• Name change for LG industrial division
• Plastic bottle unscrambler
• Colour machine vision camera
• Software provides collision protection support
• 3D modelling and simulation software
• Step motor and drive chip combination
• MARC Global added to top 100 supply and demand chain companies
• Infectious waste cleanup system
• Elevator door optical sensor system
• Seafood-to-plate on grand scale
• One-phase 240V ac panel mount and DIN rail EMC filters
• High-resolution human machine interfaces
• Transfield wins all-embracing coal maintenance deal
• A ‘can do’ spirit beats Brits on recycling
• High-isolation SPDT switch module
• Electronics website launched
• Beijer in new deal with ABB
• Incremental encoders adapt to the application
• High-speed data acquisition devices
• Four-area colour OLED display
• Anritsu wins leadership award
• Quality, warranty module added to ERP software
• Western Sydney manufacturing event
• USB/ac battery charger for portable devices
• Merit for food safety chief
• High-definition plasma profile cutting and drilling machine
• Gel mounts remove road shocks
• Highly conductive thermal gel sheet
• Quad loop powered isolator
• Low-cost frame grabber
• Open access to AWR software
• New leaching technology launched
• In-vehicle data acquisition controller
• Queensland joins agribusiness group
• Ethernet provides a bit of backbone underground
• Supply chain software for OEMs
• Flat bottom bag packers
• Two-speed, portable hand pumps
• Fosterville: gold mine paying off for Perseverance
• Bendigo gold is go-goer
• Double-balanced and image reject mixers
• Hermetically-sealed level indicator
• Cable testing made easy
• Simple-to-use online moisture analyser
• Flexible heaters and syringe heaters
• Kemsea handles dangerous goods with ease
• Circular connector plugs with LEDs
• Moisturised disposable gloves
• Rotary spur gear pumps
• Network analyser port to chipset connector
• High-accuracy laser cutting centre
• I2C-controllable buck regulator in 3mm x 3mm DFN
• Automotive oil protects against wear
• Industrial closed coupling systems
• Calcium sulphonate greases
• Pallet accumulators
• Chipset for dc-dc buck converter applications
• Hay Point coal terminal expansion approved
• Compensator for automated assembly
• Oil filtration at the pump outlet
• Top this - if you can!
• Four channel PC oscilloscope
• New mining software version released
• LCD TV share to outstrip plasma’s, says IDC
• Mining boom, profits set to continue - report
• Fall protection equipment
• E-commerce: the parts supply chain’s missing link
• Fujitsu rolls out film substrate-based e-paper
• India’s growth will outpace China’s
• Innovative container handler and stacking crane
• Skills development to go like a train
• Single and double disc couplings for servomotor systems
• Engine preheater for smaller generator sizes
• Surface-mount, single-piece nonvolatile SRAM module with integrated RTC
• PC-based digital storage oscilloscope
• Visit Edge Software at Automate 2005 and win a copy of Solid Edge
• Mains suppression filters
• Cylinder for splash zone areas
• Mining & Energy 2005 spotlights safety
• Machine vision workshop
• Quad universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter
• Power controllers in a compact package
• Astronomical time switch
• Lenses for power LEDs
• Low-offset 18MHz CMOS amplifiers
• Labelling software complies with EAN SSCC standard
• Full-function signal generator
• Protecting mills from the daily grind
• DACs for signal-path, portable industrial and consumer applications
• Underground fire service to the rescue
• Danger of methane explosion from diesel engine systems
• IP65 front-panel interfaces
• Low-cost digital servo drive
• Trade secrets revealed
• Staying ahead of the pack
• Safety by simulation –Thiess invests in workforce training
• Two-wire bus buffers with stuck bus recovery
• Organic semiconductor capacitor
• Integrated GIS for geosciences
• Multi-channel data acquisition system
• Bottled water that’s up to the level
• Universal testing machines
• Non-contact coded safety switch
• Dining out over food safety
• Artics, that’s for Shaw
• Import duty removal promises savings for earthmoving equipment users
• Amcor top-level reshuffle
• High density digital input module
• 10-year battery shelf life for emergency kit torches
• Low voltage in-circuit troubleshooter
• Prospect Awards: here come the judge
• EOP solves dusty, noisy level applications
• Field-bus coupler with Ethernet interface
• Fine grinding as enabling technology
• Keep on carrying on
• Microcontrollers for automotive and industrial markets
• Panel meters, transducers, and transmitters
• Solenoid-operated pneumatic spool valves
• Bottling the secret to safe drinking
• In-circuit and on-chip emulators
• Medium voltage switchgear
• Portable safes keep valuables secure
• Skin care products
• New software aids in process design
• Bench-top digital multimeters
• HACCP food safety tool
• Water indicating labels
• Vacuum gripper system
• Upgrades for automatic lubricator
• Intermediate bulk containers at Auspack
• Wireless data collection software
• Pressure and leak testing connectors
• On-site machining service stacks up
• Tadano lifts two Crane of Year awards
• Weighing/labelling products
• Waste management, food services and potential hazard products
• Temperature measuring instrument with radio probe
• Padlocks and lockout equipment
• Web-based Profibus training
• Stainless steel reference manual
• Compact flue gas analyser
• Inaccessible area inspection tool
• Efficient longwalls are just two years away
• Crane company is hooked on WA success
• Conveyors clear coal at Ulan’s new longwall development
• Crane safety elevates booming business
• Sophisticated system controls large structure lifting
• Cold stamping foils
• Thermometer monitors minimum and maximum temperatures
• In-circuit/out-of-circuit transistor tester
• Workplace implementation of Lean thinking
• Wax resin thermal transfer ribbons
• Optical inspection appliance
• Probe for measuring indoor air quality
• Longwall of China to debut down under
• Hiring lifts burden
• Xstrata has healthy twins at Newlands
• Deloitte and Sunshine at Supply Chain Conference
• Glove holder slips onto belt, trousers or overalls
• Sage Automation grows through innovation
• Metrology wells for temperature calibration
• Long-range Bluetooth adaptor
• Cincom appoints new Priority manager
• Total Station proves totally efficient
• Patents pending for data acquisition technology
• ICs drive white LEDs
• Handheld tone generator/cable tracer
• Barcode and label printers
• Pressure-sensitive label applicators
• Prize offer at Automate show
• High-speed door survives collisions
• Energy Australia shuts down Caltex
• WA regional geophysical survey off to a flying start
• Solid-base valve islands
• Amcor Australasia MD appointed
• Portable multi-channel acquisition system
• Victoria releases new geology and geophysical interpretation maps
• Freely-programmable controllers
• Smart Exploration puts Qld back on map
• Micro-stepping motors
• Alternative to costly truck-mounted hydraulic cranes
• Lightweight safety padlocks
• High visibility 3-in-1 safety jacket
• Management changes at Tech-Rentals
• Handheld battery capacity analyser
• High-performance position transducer
• Serial device servers
• Loss-of-signal switch
• Rugged PCs for automation and control
• Waterproof cut-resistant glove
• Dual-port secure device server
• Digitally-controlled tunable filter
• Ethernet controller series
• Low-cost intelligent CAN module for the USB port
• Consumer semiconductor market set to double, IDC predicts
• Q1 semiconductor sales up 13%
• Avnet buys Memec for $676m
• Q1 inventory reduction good indicator of future growth, iSuppli Says
• DVD recorder sales to reach $12 billion by 2009
• Xantrex Technology distributor appointed
• Universal chip programmer
• Profibus fulfils automation vision
• Inductive conductivity and temperature transmitter
• Innovative underground lighting solutions trialling at Raleigh
• Wire rope hoist
• Analogue signal converters
• IPC determines replacement for lead solder
• Electric chain hoists
• Rig mountable compressors for drillers
• Poly pipes proved at process plant
• Conveyor company moves to handle those ‘niche’ jobs
• Labelling and coding solutions on show
• Advanced adjustable-speed AC drives
• Software packages up for grabs
• Versatile materials handling blocks
• Lead-free electronics assembly workshops
• Dual counter/rate meter
• SCADA goes into outer space
• Multifunction power transmitter
• Switch mode power supplies
• New Phoenix national product manager
• Lighting solution with constant current driver
• Pneumatic chipping hammer
• Belt scales now made locally
• High-speed in-system programming engine
• Chinese electronic production slowing, iSuppli says
• Miniature turntable bearings
• Low-cost, low-maintenance CO2 monitor
• Quick-locking IP67 connection
• MAXQ JTAG microcontroller emulator
• Fighting for the 3G CMOS prize
• High-speed vision sensor
• Coates Hire ensures plant reliability
• Plug-in relay and opto-coupler
• Magnetic base drill countersinks
• Freescale knocks Philips out of IC Insights’ top 10 ranking
• Q1 PC graphics shipments down 6%
• Bluetooth, UWB to play together
• Mentor Claims 20x-100x System Verification Speed Increase
• TI, Microsoft partner on portable media centre development
• SMIC, UTAC team for joint backend facility
• Samsung, Microsoft ink HDTV alliance for next-generation Xbox console
• Cost-effective safety boots
• Energizer selects Citect for MES solution
• Log amp RF power detectors
• Heavy duty chain blocks
• Automatic lubrication systems for chains
• Automatic lubricators for mining industry
• PCI multiport serial boards
• Time relays for modular consumer switchboards
• Lasers light up sheet-metal industry
• Switched mode dc power supplies and plug pack adaptors
• Software for robotic systems
• Fine coal centrifuge
• HACCP-approved moisture analysers
• General purpose amplifiers
• Field bus I/O modules
• Mosfet modules offer low-cost solution
• Reducing maintenance costs through effective prediction analysis
• Frequency hopping Ethernet and serial options
• Local company snares key hardening process
• Industrial Ethernet switch
• 900MHz Wireless Ethernet bridge for PLCs
• Industrial media converter
• Innovation the key to toolmaker’s growth
• Survey software offers tools for 3D point-cloud data editing and viewing
• Pack Expo conference
• Steam solenoid valves
• Steam solenoid valve with a brass body and PTFE seats
• Boltless rack
• Near infrared polymer analyser
• Bake to the future
• Packaging machine OEM converts from pneumatics to servo controllers
• TAFE centre leads the way for a safer workplace
• Pipe maker automates coding system
• Food cool down time monitor
• 25VA-400VA transformers
• Platform trolleys
• Process safety: what are the odds?
• PCB router reduces design time
• Industry’s holy grail: the perfect order
• Horses for courses: barcodes and RFID
• Automatic pallet dispenser
• Skills on FoodPro agenda
• Touch screens that operate through glass
• Lightweight welder with focused arc control
• Innovation program launched
• Salary increases on hold, despite shortages
• GreaseMax chosen for vehicle assembly plant
• Stainless steel extreme environment camera
• Temperature and humidity recorder
• Low power consumption for 8-bit Flash microcontrollers
• EFIC to help Australian SME exporters
• High side current sense amplifier
• Dv/dt reactor protects motors
• US guest speaker at SAP 2005 conference
• NC/CNC programming turning system
• Aussies claim medals in Helsinki
• High-visibility jacket for all weather conditions
• Firewire cameras for industrial and scientific applications
• Anti-slip polyurethane coating
• Should warehouses suffer fools gladly?
• 16M NOR Flash in .18mm technology
• Towers provide eight clamping stations
• Near infrared food analyser
• Automated chain lubrication system
• Dual-output dc/dc converters
• Showcase manufacture and supply system
• Electric double layer capacitor
• Accolades for nutrition experts
• Smart display and contactor
• Lightweight relay series
• ‘OHS challenges faced by multinational companies’
• Revealing PET show
• Multifunction data acquisition devices
• European CEOs back software patents
• Suppliers slowly getting up to speed on RoHS
• Moulded polypropylene flow switches
• Work assist vehicle
• Rugged digital manometer and logger
• Smart cameras use DSP technology
• Reliable, contact-free solids level measurement
• HART-based temperature transmitter
• Tear drop float switches
• End cutting corners on safety
• Current mode PWM step-down dc/dc converter
• Food safety and beyond: breakfast forum
• New $4m plant is just nuts
• Richardson appointed ATC global distributor
• Portable temperature and humidity device
• DIN-rail-mountable fibre optic sensors
• Tool calibration system
• Celebrating NZ innovation
• Chip sales slip on DRAM
• Gas bottle filling and testing connector
• CMX calibration management software
• Frequency management products
• One-day machine vision workshop
• Fanless 1GHz 3.5" mini board
• 128M MaskROM in 0.2mm technology
• More $$$ from JSF agreement
• AUSPACK ’05: registration open
• Consultation services for VxWorks customers
• Temperature stabilised laser module
• Have your say on food safety audits
• Brand expert to speak on private labels
• Plastic closures to overtake metal by 2009
• Point of sale system
• HACCP: succeeding at safety
• Diagnostic feedback on static control system
• LED white light source
• Programmable ASIC market gains steam
• Network fault analysis platform
• 600-page safety catalogue
• Bovis lends expertise to Victorian Smart Freight Project
• Compact thermal imaging
• High power, super broadband amplifiers
• High density 150W modules
• Eight-port vector network analyser
• New appointment at HBM Plastics Technologies
• Video inspection systems and metrology software
• Innovative thinking pays off in performance
• Packaging tape and labels
• A quality performance
• Machine vision software
• Software development lifecycle support suite
• Supply chain outsourcing offering
• Australian E-Nose may save lives
• SMC launches energy-saving range
• Direct-conversion FSK transceiver
• Top load tester for plastic containers
• Wiper increases life of hydraulic clamps
• Signs point to safety
• Training jewel in Crown
• Ultra-compact EMC receiver
• Extensive products for industrial Ethernet
• 40 gigabyte slim hard drive
• Pressure switches
• Imperfect order
• Turret punch presses work safely in corners
• Pellet scanning systems
• New Sydney DC for auto parts
• Warehouse market evolution
• Manufacturers don’t expect ROI on RFID
• Diffuse laser light sensor
• Multi-sensor interface
• Competitive streak ensured
• ‘Pathetic package’ claims refuted
• FSANZ approves iodine sanitation
• Australian e-nose unveiled to nosy food industry
• Unipix re-launches ERP system
• 17-inch LCD rear-mount touchmonitor
• High voltage step-down controller
• Logistics: July 2005 news digest
• Hydraulic hinge clamps
• Economical carton checkweigher
• Logistics magazine July 2005 Australian news briefs
• Wise moves
• Temperature calibrator system
• Cases for electrical and electronic applications indoors
• Thermal imaging cameras
• All aboard the supply train
• Fat tax to fight obesity?
• 1.5V analogue temperature sensors
• Simple network application platform
• Speed humps made of recycled rubber
• NI outlines ‘virtual’ extension plans
• Embedded fingerprint matching modules
• Aerosol burst tester
• Permit to work system
• Virus writing on the increase
• Shoe giant aims for small ‘footprint’ on environment
• Magnesium sheet production process licensed
• RTD CML series processors
• Anti-collision systems for gantry cranes and shuttle cars
• Logistics: July 2005 international news in brief
• Groundkeeping machinery
• Plasma cutting system
• Rusting steel to clean up toxic spills
• High quality broadband TWT amplifiers
• Multi-hole directional couplers
• Smart fasteners to change product assembly
• Dc drives for four-quadrant regenerative drive applications
• It’s all about integrity
• Integration Module allows IT administrators to restore disconnected assets
• Industrial sensor catalogue
• Thick-film power resistors in TO220 and TO247 packages
• Free data acquisition and control software
• Automated biparting door
• New era in workplace safety
• Multi-channel controller
• Steel plant upgrade approved
• Deep crinkle cut
• Australia’s automotive sector is dealt an ACE
• SSA Global Selected by Cognos for Platinum Award
• Exel wins with virtual wine supply
• Paint the town yellow for Lions
• Flexible bulk packaging forecast to boom
• Configurable forklift safety warning system
• 60t deck screen exported to Canada
• Nature’s way to clean water
• 250Msps analogue to digital converter
• Infrared gas analyser
• Complete oil movement solution
• S-type gripper conveyer
• In the bag?
• Digital drives for servomotors
• Digital interface hydraulic valves
• Lockout devices for plant and vehicle isolation
• Broadband modular amplifiers
• Pneumatic-operated cryogenic valves
• Redmap’s Woolley joins Austrade Export Advisory Panel
• Food grade lubricants
• Philmac wins major water industry award
• Octal 16-bit DAC with I2C interface
• Direct-reading precision attenuator
• Woolworths marches on
• Circuit board card guides
• Loop powered LED display
• Short-vibration feedback device
• IBCs raise power bar to 450W
• High bandwidth three-input video switch