@AuManufacturing Conversations episode 19 — Dr Marc Carmichael from University of Technology Sydney

In episode 19 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Dr Marc Carmichael, a Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator at the Australian Cobotics Centre.

The episode was recorded on the second day of the Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of.   

Carmichael’s work focusses on collaborative robotics, a genre of automation he believes is a good match for Australia’s SME-heavy manufacturing community, though something it has been slow to adopt so far.

He discusses the application of collaborative robotics for abrasive blasting – work which saw him named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers by Engineers Australia in 2018 – as well as development of a new micro-credential through the Western Parkland City Authority’s New Education and Training Model (NETM.)

“We see cobots as a really exciting technology that has the real potential to change the manufacturing landscape here, and is really suited to Australia’s type of manufacturing.”

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Episode guide

0:30 – Research background.

1:20 – Robots for abrasive blasting. An example of supplementing rather than replacing workers.

3:33 – The Australian Cobotics Centre.

4:25 – Automation for short-run, high-value manufacturing.

6:26 – The new micro-credential in cobots and what students learn during its 40 hours.

Further reading

REMOVING DANGER AND COST FROM GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE

COLLABORATING WITH ROBOTS

HOW DO WE COMPARE INTERNATIONALLY, AND DOES THAT NEED TO CHANGE?

EVEN NICHE MANUFACTURING SHOULD USE ROBOTS

@AUMANUFACTURING CONVERSATIONS EPISODE 18: PETER MACKEY FROM WESTERN PARKLAND CITY AUTHORITY

Image credit: www.uts.edu.au