The ratification is an amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, paving the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching.

Engineers must demonstrate traceability from the requirements to the design and provide documentation of both this traceability as well as the verification of the design.

The addition of a second shift at Holden's vehicle assembly plant at Elizabeth in South Australia suggests the automotive manufacturer is confident the industry is on-the-rise.

Whitehaven Coal has begun coal production at its Narrabri mine in north-west New South Wales.

Smart Engineering & Technologies says preventative maintenance schedules are now available to all businesses, via service contractors.

TECPRO Australia says it has collaborated with Jeff Hill Plumbing to help a building material recycling plant suppress dust.

AUSPACK PLUS is owned and presented by the APPMA, Australia's only national packaging and processing machinery organisation.

Miners at the Tahmoor colliery went on strike Friday over pay disagreements with operator Xstrata Coal.

Engineers seeking the most appropriate way to solve optimisation problems intrinsic to machine design can get easy to follow instructions from the NAG Library by making use of the Decision Trees for optimisation.

The HVAC Integrated Tool provides a simple method for selecting from the complete Siemens range of HVAC-controllers, valves, actuators, sensors, thermostats and variable speed drives.

Maser has successfully completed the supply of instrumentation, thermocouple and process control cables required for a major $300m manufacturing facility upgrade in southern New South Wales.

The University of Queensland has won grants under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects to enhance modelling capability in advanced metal forming.

SHAMIC Sheetmetal (Aust) has made a stage one implementation of the Finn-Power Night Train FMS ‘lights out’ system.

The high cost of corrosion continues to be a major challenge for mining, defence, manufacturing and general industry. An extremely difficult issue to manage, corrosion continues to present a highly intrusive and disruptive cost impost to business & supply chain operations. Steve Drury writes.

Safety in the metal working and machine tools industry remains a major concern with a continuing high rate of injuries and some recent fatalities, writes Hartley Henderson.

CRANE operator Bruce Edwin Bannister has been fined $8,000 over a crane collapse on a construction site.

CAPITAL Safety has relocated its Australian and New Zealand head office operations to new premises to cater for its growth.

According to Steggles, these results come despite the fact that the Australian poultry industry ceased these practices nearly half a century ago.

Southern Wine & Spirits will gain the exclusive rights to sell Foster’s global portfolio of wines in California, Florida and Illinois.

According to records, the USA and Europe have dominated this activity, accounting for two-thirds of heart health launches.