Test & measure

Cooperation agreement extended

27 November, 2007

The Institute of Instrumentation, Control and Automation Australia (IICA) and Reed Exhibitions have signed a two-year agreement for ICEX, the exhibition section of IICA, to again be part of National Manufacturing Week for the next two years.

Digital multimeters offered to qualifying education programs

15 November, 2007

Fluke Australia has announced that it will donate new high-performance logging digital multimeters to educational institutions through its education grant program.

Open standard celebrates 10th anniversary

12 November, 2007

The PXI Systems Alliance (www.pxisa.org) has announced the 10th anniversary of the PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) specification, the PC-based modular I/O platform for test, measurement and control systems.

Enhanced graphical programming capability and support

09 November, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.agilent.com/find/vee_download

Agilent VEE is an interactive, graphical programming environment that provides a quick path to measurement and analysis across applications including R&D, scientific research, industrial manufacturing and education.

Graphical system design platform

08 October, 2007 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd

National Instruments has just released NI LabVIEW 8.5, the latest version of the graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development.

Data management

08 October, 2007 | Supplied by: National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd

National Instruments has released Diadem 10.2, the latest version of its interactive data management, analysis and reporting software that now offers support for Windows Vista.

Synchronisation of test and measurement instruments over LAN using LXI

10 September, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.agilent.com/find/E5818A

Agilent has introduced an LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) trigger box that enables precise synchronisation over LAN for LXI Class C and GPIB instruments from any vendor, elevating their performance to LXI Class B standards.

Distributor appointed

03 September, 2007

Trio Smartcal has a new role as the distributor for Agilent Technologies for Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic and Tas. Also covered will be defence accounts in SA. Trio Smartcal will sell Agilentâ€™s â€˜basic instrumentâ€™ range of general-purpose test and measurement products.

New distributors

23 August, 2007

Fluke Australia has announced three new distribution agreements. The newly formed Testing Equipment Solutions (TES) has been appointed the distributor of Fluke precision measurement instruments in Queensland, while NSW distribution will be handled by IPI. Triple Point Calibration (TPC) will service Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Wireless meter monitoring

08 August, 2007 | Supplied by: Halytech Pty Ltd

Halytech has released a utility meter monitoring system suitable for water, gas, electricity and other types of meters.

Agilent's compact, low-power digitiser maximises measurement throughput

08 August, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.acqiris.com

Agilent Technologies has introduced its first digitiser from the Acqiris product line which it acquired in November 2006.

Jitter analysis

08 August, 2007 | Supplied by: http://www.agilent.com

Agilent has introduced what it claims is industry-first phase noise application software and options for the digital communications analyser (DCA-J).

Distribution changes

10 July, 2007

Rohde & Schwarz Australia has announced that from 30 June 2007, Trio Smartcal will no longer be a Rohde & Schwarz distributor.

Rogue wireless device finder

12 June, 2007 | Supplied by: Fluke Australia Pty Ltd

Fluke has released new features for its EtherScope Series II Network Assistant. Security scan and locate features reduce the time taken to find rogue wireless local area network devices by 75%, as measured by the time spent on the same task using an omni-directional antenna found on most PC radio cards.