Manufacturing projects lead in $32 million ARC Linkage grant round
Australian Research Council Linkage grants have been announced, totalling $32 million over six years, with 12 of the supported projects categorised as “advanced manufacturing”.
Brent is a co-founder and editor of @AuManufacturing.
Hydrogen startup anticipates 30 new hires over next 12 months
University of Wollongong-headquartered Hysata recently made headlines with a breakthrough paper in Nature Communications, demonstrating a “giant leap” in water splitting progress and a claim to be on track to $2/kilogram hydrogen by 2025. The UoW spinout business was launched in mid-2021 with $5 million in seed funding from the IP Group and the Clean…
Forging a way into the nuclear power industry
Australia will eventually have eight nuclear submarines, under a partnership with either the US or UK, and a new base for them at one of three short-listed sites on the east coast.
Chief Scientist renews call for innovation metrics overhaul
By James Riley The data and systems used to measure innovation and commercialisation in Australia are no longer working for us, according to chief scientist Cathy Foley, who says our innovation metrics are in need of an overhaul. The same can be said of the data we use to measure university rankings and the success…
Why a Silicon Valley robotics company is setting up in Brisbane
By Brent Balinski As has been mentioned on this website and elsewhere, while Australia’s private investment in automation – placed 35th in the world based on the number of industrial robots per 10,000 workers – could be better, the nation has some fantastic researchers in the field. One positive development last week was news that…
Underwater robotics maker grasps new opportunities
Tucked away on a residential street, spitting distance from a lively bistro pub in Glebe (about three kilometres from Sydney’s CBD) is where you will find the most promising Australian robotics manufacturer you’ve never heard of.
Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed
First Graphene’s low-carbon cement grant A consortium led by First Graphene has secured a GBP190,000 UK government grant to develop graphene-enhanced, low carbon cement. The company and Breedon Cement, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure and the University of Manchester aim to achieve a 25 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions in cement production. The grant,…
Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management: Building biometric-based ID machines
For the last two weeks, our Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Management series has looked at cybersecurity threats to manufacturers, why they should take them seriously, and how they can thwart them. For the final entry, we will hear from a manufacturer responsible for other people’s security and access management, and the ways it goes about keeping very sensitive, very personal data safe.
Alexa, who is number one for Australian manufacturing news? (It’s us.)
For a long time, Amazon’s Alexa (no, not the virtual assistant of the same name) has been the go-to tool for measuring website traffic and analytics. Alexa Internet was founded in 1996, and bought three years after that by what is now an e-commerce and cloud computing behemoth. Alexa harvests information from browser extensions downloaded…
Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed
Electro Optic Systems’ record deliveries Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems delivered a record number of its key products – remote weapons systems and satellite terminals – in the December quarter. The Canberra company expects orders delayed during the Covbid-19 pandemic to be let over the next year and has been investing in…