Angela Doyle looks at some of the trends that are changing Australian manufacturing — and the skills it needs to prosper — in this part of our “technologies and tools…” series. Skills and training Manufacturing is vital to Australia’s prosperity, contributing more than $100 billion to the nation’s economy every year. It is larger and…
The manufacturing sector returned to growth after two months of pronounced contraction, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index.
Industrial-scale additive manufacturing company Titomic has announced a new chairman, Dr Andreas Schwer, following the resignation of Philip Vafiadis from the role last week. Schwer recently stepped down as inaugural CEO of Saudi Arabian Military Industries, founded in 2017. His resume includes roles as Chairman and President of Rheinmetall International – Rheinmetall AG and 12…
Defence has signed a ten-year, $100 million contract with engineering company Qinetiq Australia.
Ellex Medical Lasers will be reborn with the new name of Nova Eye Medical and will develop new opthalmic treatments following the completion of the sale of its opthalmic laser (pictured) and ultrasound businesses. The company told investors it had completed the sale of the businesses, together with the Ellex name, to London’s Lumibird Group…
Industrial automation group SAGE Automation has introduced the SAGE Edge, an IoT capture device and gateway providing insight for managing travel time and pedestrian data. SAGE Edge can be used in many applications including smartcity data collection, transport travel time data, tourism pedestrian data and general IoT data management. Already being utilised by local government,…
LBT Innovations Ltd’s APAS Independence machine has been tested on laboratory specimens from 4,603 patients at America’s prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and passed with a perfect, or perhaps better than perfect, result. The APAS Independence technology uses an algorithm to detect bacterial colonies on laborature culture slides and incorporates computer vision to hasten the time…
There are Australian manufacturing companies reaping the benefits of robotics investments, and we need more of them. In this installment of our “technologies and tools…” series, Mark Peters presents three local examples, and argues against the zero-sum view of automation versus jobs.
The federal government has pledged $7.8 million in temporary funding assistance following a downturn for the country’s 11 used oil re-refiners due to Covid-19.
The Australian Food and Grocery Council has raised concerns that Woolworths’ focus on its business-to-business division could squeeze suppliers and hurt their ability to invest in new equipment and stay onshore.
