N E W S Rockwell announces new md for Australia/New Zealand Rockwell Automation has announced Scott Wooldridge as managing director for Australia and New Zealand. In this leadership role, Mr Wooldridge will oversee sales and business operations in Australia and New Zealand and be responsible for the company’s growth and performance strategy. This involves the overarching responsibility for people and strategy in relation to sales, service, delivery, projects and customer care. “I’m looking forward to working closely with our key distributors, system integrators, end users and OEMs to make sure they continue to be well supported with industry leading power, automation and data management solutions and services. These Rockwell Automation solutions provide key competitive advantages for our PartnerNetwork organisations, enabling them to be market leading entities in their own right,” says Mr Wooldridge. He holds a strong engineering and sales background in the automation and energy industries both within Australia and the United States. He commenced his career in project engineering and management prior to working for Citect as vice president of Professional Services in Chicago, then vice president of Sales in Georgia. He returned to Australia as managing director for Citect. Following Schneider Electric’s acquisition of Citect, Mr Wooldridge moved to the role of vice president, industry business for Schneider Electric. Most recently, he was chief executive officer of the ASX listed company, Energy Action. With extensive experience in the IoT and big data space, he is looking forward to leveraging his domain knowledge to help customers address challenges they are facing and align Rockwell Automation solutions to their business drivers. “Connectivity is expected everywhere now - the need to securely align Information Technology with Operational Technology to share data transparently, while retaining data integrity is critical to support improved business productivity outcomes across the organisation. My key focus is to help customers enable The Connected Enterprise, to understand the business outcomes connected ecosystems deliver, instead of focusing on individual components,” he says. 10 July 2017 Prius destroyed and battle deployed Coming to you August 2017 is a battle to end all battles… what better way to celebrate engineering by letting that engineering rip something apart? Megabots MK.III combat robot warmed up by ripping apart a Prius. Next, it has a Japanese robot’s name on its mind. After two years of breakthrough science and engineering, MegaBots and Suidobashi are finally ready to bring the world the battle of the century. The all-new MegaBots Mk. III robot is a fully combat capable 12-ton, 430-horsepower steel crushing beast. Strap in and get ready. Things are about to get absurdly epic when the two meet head-to-head in a battle royale. Details are still under wraps but word on the street as that the clash of metals will take place in August.
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