ABB Pick-and-place robot
01 August, 2008ABB Australia’s second-generation FlexPicker robot, the IRB 360, is more productive with increased speed, higher payload and a smaller footprint than its predecessors.
Clean area automation
01 July, 2008Baldor has launched a family of frequency inverter drives for AC motors.
Lean production management
01 July, 2008GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has available its latest version of its Proficy Tracker software that helps companies realise lean initiatives by managing the execution of orders and the related flow of materials.
Compressed air energy management
01 July, 2008An energy-management system from Parker domnick hunter is designed to save up to 80% of power consumed during drying compressed air.
Intelligent management production software
01 June, 2008Innova software is designed for intelligent production control. The technology is built on the extensive software development experience of Marel Food Systems’ four global brands AEW Delford, Carnitech, Marel and Scanvaegt.
Process improvement software
01 June, 2008Minitab has released its Quality Companion Dashboard, a tool for users of Quality Companion.
Laboratory information management system
01 June, 2008LabWare has introduced the next major version of its LabWare LIMS.
Automating fish sorting
18 March, 2008Norwegian scientists have developed a program that can analyse and sort fish according to quality.
Aussie software revolutionising packaging design
13 March, 2008After three years in development, an Australian online software application is set to revolutionise the impact of packaging on the environment.
Nutrition/ingredient labelling software
12 November, 2007Label Live is a software product that calculates the ingredient listing, nutrition information and allergen declaration for products based on information entered only once for each raw material. Any time the formulation is changed, the software will recalculate the ingredient listing etc, cutting the time it would otherwise take to do this task every time a product is reformulated.
Better brewing with automation from Siemens
23 August, 2007Thanks to a control system from Siemens, breweries can oversee the entire brewing process from a single monitor, allowing them to produce beer faster and more cost efficiently while ensuring quality of taste remains at a consistently high level
SPC Ardmona pick planning solution
23 July, 2007SPC Ardmona has selected Infor SCM Advanced Planning to help it gain greater visibility of its operational performance and expenditure
Asset management for Golden Circle
16 July, 2007Golden Circle is to implement an information system based on Mainpac's Mainet, the Microsoft .NET-based enterprise asset management software package.
M1 ERP software
13 July, 2007Bowen & Groves has released a new version of its M1 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Robotic partnering
13 July, 2007Recognising that few plant engineers within manufacturing companies have the prerequisite skills to integrate robots into existing and new plant, ABB Robotics has established its Partner Network of experienced experts in robotics and automation integration.
