The US Navy has commissioned USS Savannah (LCS28), the 14th Independence class littoral combat ship (LCS) constructed by Austal USA, in Mobile, Alabama. The commissioning of the aluminium trimaran vessel designed to operate in near-shore environments as well as open-ocean tasking took place in Brunswick, Georgia over the weekend. The LCS can support forward presence,…
K-TIG has announced that it will build an R&D facility at BAE Systems Australia’s Line Zero – Factory of the Future, located within Tonsley Innovation District, aiming to demonstrate the usefulness of its automated welding technology for shipbuilding and other industrial sectors.
RMIT researchers have developed a new bioplastic, inspired by lotus leaves, which they say is compostable, strong, suitable for food packaging applications, as well as possible to produce in industrial volumes. The material repels water and dirt, according to a statement from the university, and uses starch and cellulose as its base materials. (See video…
Rocket manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies and engineering group SENER Aeroespacial will; work together to develop an Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) for Gilmour’s Eris launch vehicle. The AFTS is a smart hardware and software unit with autonomous decision-making capacity. It is a critical system which is responsible for aborting a flight if any anomalies are…
Today our Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management series provides a few more pieces of important advice to beef up security for small and medium-sized enterprises. Here Sam Silva presents five things to consider.
As voters contemplate a looming federal election plans are emerging for mega re-industrialising projects – not from federal politicians, but from elsewhere in the community. Over in the west the WA government plans to create five hydrogen hubs that electrolyse water using green solar pv and wind power in the Pilbara region by 2030. A…
The @AuManufacturing new deal plan for manufacturing was crowd sourced from more than 60 substantial submissions from readers and members of the Australian Manufacturing Forum Linkedin group in 2020. With an election in the air and industry policy again in the news this week, we present again the plan’s executive summary and core recommendations as…
