AI offers a number of new applications for engineers in the manufacturing industry. In order to provide full value, the AI model needs to be integrated into the whole manufacturing process, which is running nonstop, seven days a week.
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By Dominic Zaal, CSIRO Australia’s transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there’s a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system. We also need to find new and better ways to create heat for industrial processes. Renewables…
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Silex Systems has announced successful completion of its three-year, $8 million ZS-Si Project, with its focus now on scaling up to production of 5 kilograms of ZS-Si (zero-spin silicon) annually at a target purity of 99.995 per cent. In an ASX announcement on Wednesday, Silex said it had submitted a final report to the federal…
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Ukraine asks for more Bushmasters, Hawkeis Ukraine has made new calls for Australia to send more Bushmaster protected military vehicles to the war torn country, as well as some of the lighter weight Hawkeis. Government organisation Defense of Ukraine went on social media and said: “Our soldiers absolutely love Australian Bushmasters. But now they have…
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Sharemarket analysts Pitt Street Research have released a positive appraisal of medical imaging company Imagion Biosystems and its MagSense non-radioactive and safe diagnostic imaging technology. Specialised MagSense nanoparticles are coated with tumour targeting antibodies and can be administered by simple intravenous injection. Weak, but highly sensitive magnetic fields are used to locate the nanoparticles which…
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The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) has announced Australia’s first sodium-sulphur (NAS) battery has been installed at the IGO Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine site. The 250 kW/1.45 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) demonstration unit will provide long-duration storage, according to FBICRC Chief Executive Officer Shannon O’Rourke. O’Rourke said: “The NAS battery technology is…
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Japanese car maker Suzuki Motor Corporation and Australian technology company Applied Electric Vehicles have signed a memorandum of understanding which will see the pair co-develop a new four-wheel-drive. Applied EV was formed in 2015 and unveiled its autonomous Blanc Robot platform early in 2021. An agreement with Suzuki followed in September that year, and Suzuki…
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Space operations company Saber Astronautics, has won a $6.6 million Defence Innovation Hub contract to transform existing space telescopes into space traffic sensors. Following an initial $2.1 million Defence Innovation Hub contract in 2019, this new contract is for a third phase of development applying advanced algorithms to combine data from multiple different suppliers such…
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Technology development company the Hazer Group has announced a partnership that is preparing for the development of a commercial scale, up to 100,000 tonne per annum facility to be built in Japan utilising its Hazer process to produce hydrogen from biogas. The Perth company said the initial capacity of the plant, to be built with…
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Aerospace composites business Quickstep Holdings expects to finalise volumes by the end of the year for a five-year follow-on contract to supply Lockheed Martin with C-130J Hercules trailing edge flaps. Quickstep announced on Monday it had agreed binding contractual terms with the US company for the follow-on work, expected to be worth up to $96…
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