Australian-based tidal energy company MAKO Tidal Turbines Pty Ltd (MTT) and Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) are about to undertake a six month tidal turbine demonstration at the Port of Gladstone. The project will investigate how tidal energy can contribute to Australia’s energy mix by producing clean, predictable renewable energy. MTT CEO Douglas Hunt is confident … Continue reading Co-operation to promote tidal energy →

Users, specifiers and designers of industrial-grade ovens and furnaces will find the FS10i flow switch monitor provides a ruggedised, ultra-reliable ventilation air flow switch in compliance with the requirements of the National Fire Prevention Association’s (NFPA) Standard 86 for ovens and furnaces in the USA. There are many different types of industrial ovens and furnaces, … Continue reading FS10i ventilation air-flow switch/monitor for ovens and furnaces →

An energy report outlining the market and the potential for opportunities in utility-scale battery storage in NSW was released at an industry event in Sydney at the end of last week. Entitled “Opportunities for Utility Scale Battery Storage in NSW”, the report was produced by the Australian Energy Storage Alliance (AESA) in partnership with AECOM and supported by … Continue reading New report outlines opportunities for NSW utility-scale battery storage →

The remarkable and versatile Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD), capable of producing high quality graphene and specific length carbon nanotubes without using harsh or toxic chemicals, will be manufactured for commercial sales by new nano-science company 2D Fluidics. 2D Fluidics has been formed through a collaboration between ASX-listed company First Graphene Ltd and the Flinders Institute … Continue reading New NanoScience firm to produce ‘clean’ super-strength carbons →

With cyber incidents and reported vulnerabilities on the rise, industrial cybersecurity leaders must deploy proactive industrial endpoint detection and response (EDR) across the entire process control network. Failure to reduce industrial endpoint attack surfaces (e.g. insecure configurations, missing patches, vulnerabilities) increases the risk of malicious changes or unintended misconfigurations. This paper will examine how EDR … Continue reading Secure the Industrial Endpoints That Matter Most →

Schneider Electric has announced the launch of Masterpact MTZ, the third-generation of high-power, low-voltage air circuit-breakers with certified embedded Class 1 energy metering. Schneider Electric has been an industry leader in air circuit breakers with over 30 years of innovation with their Masterpact range which includes Masterpact M and NT/NW, which is assembled at Ingleburn … Continue reading Schneider Electric launches air circuit-breaker with Masterpact MTZ →

Emerson has launched the latest version of its smart meter verification software for Coriolis and magnetic flow meters, providing flow meter verification on demand and empowering process engineers, technicians and operators to look beyond the meter and make real-time decisions based on the most advanced meter and process diagnostics in the industry today. New tools … Continue reading Powerful diagnostics for flow meter intelligence and measurement confidence →

Swedish solar company Azelio has launched a demonstrator of its technology for solar energy storage. The technology is revolutionising in its ability to generate clean electricity on demand around-the clock in a distributed way. It has modularity benefits and is more cost efficient than competing technologies, including fossil based. Azelio’s unique solution is based on … Continue reading Game-changing technology for low-cost solar energy storage →

Backplane Systems Technology has released the Neousys Technology’s New Nuvo-7000 Series of next generation fanless embedded PC, powered by Intel’s 8th generation of processors. The Nuvo-7000 series, powered by Intel 8th-Gen Core i processors with up to six-core/12-thread architecture that offer significant performance improvement over previous 6th or 7th generation platforms. The Nuvo-7000 series incorporates … Continue reading Fanless embedded PCs come with Intel 8th gen processor →

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60 percent higher thermal conductivity than graphite film – despite the fact that graphite simply consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows great potential as a novel heat spreading material for form-factor driven electronics and other … Continue reading Graphene assembled film shows higher thermal conductivity than graphite film →

GreyOrange and GROUND announced the deployment of its Butler robotics operations at the Ichikawa logistics center of Daiwa House Industry Co. Ltd (TSE: 1925). The Butler robotics system operates in a 7,000sqm facility offering total logistics solutions that are shared and used for multiple shipper companies. At this site, named ‘Intelligent Logistics Center PROTO’, the … Continue reading GreyOrange Butler robotics deployed at intelligent logistics centre →

ABB and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have showcased the world’s first common collaborative robot operating interface at automatica in Munich, Germany from June 19-22, 2018. The common interface will also help address the shortage of skilled workers in many industries. In Japan for example, one person in five is within a decade of retirement. Demand for … Continue reading ABB and Kawasaki create world’s first common interface for collaborative robots →

Established in 1986, Blackhead Quarries is a joint venture between Palmer & Son and Fulton Hogan and operates a number of quarries in the region surrounding Dunedin, in New Zealand’s South Island. Opened in the 1950s, the company’s Blackhead Quarry, located on Green Island, produces 300,000 tonnes of aggregate per year. The company also operates … Continue reading Local support key to upgrade →

The growth of onsite power systems, flavour-of-month battery packs, EVs, interconnectability to the outside poles and wires plus kilowatt hour exchange apps have changed the underlying energy in microgrids, their takeup and the associated technologies. For people sharing fences with the neighbours, often on three sides of a property, the idea of investing in a … Continue reading Fence power – personal power picogrids →

How is it possible stabilise power that is generated by renewable energy sources and therefore is subject to fluctuations caused by the weather? That is undeniably one of the key questions at the heart of the current energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables. Efficient battery systems will play an important part going forward, as … Continue reading Joint venture will lead to efficient battery systems →

The use of the radar level transmitter for the process industry started back in 1991. These were large units and operated with a 6GHz frequency. They were generally sold into liquid applications and only considered when no other technology would work. They weighed several kilograms and only operated from an AC supply. In 1997, Vega … Continue reading Next-gen 80GHz radar level transmitter →

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is currently being developed at the IEEE as a novel technology that offers an entirely new level of determinism in standard IEEE 802.1 and IEEE 802.3 Ethernet networks. This means that future Ethernet networks will be able to provide: Highly limited latency fluctuations (jitter). Low packet loss. Calculable, guaranteed end-to-end latencies. However, … Continue reading TSN and why it matters →

Up to 90 per cent of manufacturers in Australia have 20 or less employees, according to Dematec Automation’s CEO David Hart. He believes that small to medium business enterprises (SMEs) can gain a whole range of benefits from digitisation via the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) that they might not have thought of in the … Continue reading Manufacturing SMEs and the IIoT →

As machines and systems are becoming more modular and control cabinets smaller, the space requirements of control components are increasingly scrutinised. At the same time, ever more complex and sophisticated machines require better computing performance. However, there are also more cost pressures in the field of automation. In order to meet all these requirements, Beckhoff … Continue reading A new path for modular and IoT-capable machines →

Australia-based Consultel Cloud has launched its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) product, which has brought scalability and cloud choice to consumers. Consultel Cloud’s customers spans industries including construction, banking, healthcare, retail and more. Its customers are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australasia, and they have looked to the company to guide them … Continue reading Care needed when migrating storage to the cloud →