What were the five biggest stories during the week just finished? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. GREEN HYDROGEN IS ELECTRIFICATION A number of people contacted me last week after the remarks of Saul Griffith on television and in print media that have been reported as an attack on green hydrogen. I have responded individually…
If all goes to plan, in May next year, Australian companies will make a small step towards addressing an enduring lack of sovereign control of very important data. Among a planned launch will be products designed and made by edge computing company Spiral Blue and Esper Satellite Imagery, which is building satellites to capture hyperspectral…
Livestock feed supplement maker CH4 Global and engineering company Siemens have announced a technology cooperation to support commercialisation of seaweed extract made at a South Australian factory. The MoU between the two companies, made public on Tuesday, would see CH4 make use of its partner’s “technological skills and capabilities in areas of digitalization and automation”…
Curious about what people were most interested in during the week just finished? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. SIEMENS, APPLIED EV ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION ON PLM SOFTWARE Siemens and Applied EV have announced a partnership, with the Melbourne-headquartered EV company to use Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software to support the design, quality…
In the final day of @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, we look at contract manufacturing firm GPC Electronics. Brent Balinski speaks to Managing Director Christopher Janssen. Defence makes up about 10 to 15 per cent of turnover at GPC Electronics, the Western Sydney contract electronics manufacturer run by Christopher Janssen. He describes it…
Nova Systems marks 2,700 technical professionals receiving skills training Test and Evaluation (T&E) registered training organisation (RTO) Nova Systems announced on Tuesday that it had passed a milestone of more than 2,700 Australian technical professionals having made it through the company’s short training courses. According to the company, the milestone is “yet another example of…
Next in @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, we include an interview with SPEE3D’s Steve Camilleri, recorded during last week’s Land Forces expo in Brisbane. SPEE3D did not set out to work with defence, a market that now makes up about half of the Australian technology company’s business, according to co-founder and CTO Steve…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, looks at how an Australian invention — the world’s most precise atomic clock — fits into the Jindalee radar network upgrade. As reported by this website, the Sapphire Cryogenic Clock made by Adelaide timing and quantum sensing business QuantX Labs has passed through full acceptance testing and…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, looks at some uses of cold spray additive manufacturing in an interview with Titomic’s Dominic Parsonson. Satellite radiation shielding. Gun barrel manufacturing. Ballistic protection. Pressure vessels. To speak to Dominic Parsonson, Head of Sales at Titomic, is to hear a person discernibly excited about the potential –…
In episode 22 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski, we hear from Daen Simmat, founder and CEO at Black Lab Design. The episode was recorded during a visit to Black Lab’s factory in Frenchs Forest last week. In this broad-ranging chat, Simmat tells us about starting a company in 2013, its natural evolution from sheet metal…