Premier Farnell has formed a global franchise agreement with Cypress Semiconductors.

An electronics company in Brisbane is one of three firms that have recently installed HALT (highly accelerated life testing) chambers. The other installations are in New Zealand.

Lippert Automationstechnik has made Dominion Electronics sole distributor for its products in Australia and New Zealand.

Fuel cells are growing rapidly in popularity and the abundance and diversity of research means it can be difficult to stay in touch with new developments.

The Australian Profibus Association will be hosting accredited Profibus training courses around Australia beginning in March 2007.

Soanar and Soanar Plus have become distributors of LTW Technology’s range of industrial connectors in Australia.

Konica Minolta Technology Centre and Universal Display Corporation have strengthened their collaboration to incorporate Universal’s PHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology into Konica’s white OLED devices.

Embedded Logic Solutions has announced that it is the Australian distributor for Wind River in the non-aerospace and defence market.

BAE Systems, National Instruments and Phase Matrix (PMI) have announced a joint initiative to develop a PXI Express-based synthetic instrument for military and commercial RF and microwave applications.

AEEMA has held information sessions for digital television and radio suppliers in Melbourne and Sydney, following the decision by the AEEMA Board to form the Australian Digital Suppliers Industry Forum (ADSIF) earlier this year.

Presentations from major players in the polymer industry will allow electronic and electrical supply chains to learn more about new materials, manufacturing processes and application requirements when they meet at the first Rapra Technologies International Conference on Polymers in Electronics in Munich 30–31 January, 2007.

Ferroelectrets, electrically charged polymer foams that can switch on thin film transistors, could have a future being incorporated into sensitive textiles.

A contract to design and develop a component device for a highly advanced, mobile secure communications system, has been awarded to Christchurch-based, Bluewater Systems.

Intelligent Systems Australia (ISA) is the master distributor for AICSYS Advanced Industrial Computer Systems products in Australia.

The electrotechnology industry still has a long way to go in accepting and encouraging female workers, with women making up only 7% of the total industry workforce and 1.6% of tradespeople, according to Frances Regan, project manager for the National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA).