Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories this week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. AUSTRALIA’S PLACE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR WORLD: SILICON IS QUANTUM, QUANTUM IS SILICON, AND AUSTRALIA MIGHT FINALLY HAVE AN EDGE Beginning the second week of our editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Andre Saraiva looked at Australia’s heritage in…

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AI and Cloud to drive business performance – by Danny Samson

Melbourne university’s Professor Danny Samson looks at the cutting edge of AI and Cloud technologies in his new book Business Model Transformation: the AI and Cloud Revolution. Through case studies he shows the business strategy and performance benefits are not just available for large, listed companies, but can be embraced by Australia’s SMEs through proactive…

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Wine ain’t wine unless it has been through the FOMENT accelerator

Australia’s wine industry is a world leader because of innovation with the FOMENT Accelerator Program formalising and modernising that tradition through its wine, viti and tourism programme scheduled to kick off in February 2023. While innovations such as the wine cask and screw cap have come from individual companies or industry researchers, FORMENT is focused…

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Manufacturing news briefs — stories you might have missed

Tradify, Clipsal by Schneider Electric announce partnership Tradify announced a strategic partnership with Clipsal by Schneider Electric on Thursday, connecting Clipsal with the trade business technology platform. Tradify said in a statement that the partnership was made possible by venture capital fund SE Ventures. According to the release, it will “enable and empower electricians, providing…

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Bluglass teams up with Ganvix on VCSELs

Semiconductor development and manufacturing company Bluglass has announced an agreement with US-based laser company Ganvix to develop gallium nitride (GaN) vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs.) In a statement on Thursday, ASX-listed Bluglass said green wavelength (515 to 525 nanometre) VCSELs made with its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour deposition (RPCVD) process could offer higher…

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Australia’s place in the semiconductor world: Some humble thoughts on developing a native semi industry

Today in or ongoing editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Venkata Gutta considers why we need a domestic semiconductor industry, what other countries have done to develop theirs, what we can learn, and some proposals. Millibeam is a mmWave fabless semiconductor company based in Sydney, Australia and we develop high-performance integrated circuits and…

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