Following our successful new deal plan series, @AuManufacturing is crowd sourcing advice from its community on how to reshape the industry through new tools and technologies. The first article in this new series is from Rowan Lamont, who suggests ways to better create products that customers attribute value to.
Our campaign to crowd source a new deal plan for manufacturing highlighted the vital role to be played by onshoring manufacturing operations. In this three-part series, we look at how the re-shoring trend is developing. By Peter Roberts. In a small factory at Gillman in the heart of a traditional Adelaide industrial precinct, a quiet…
For reshoring to take place on a large scale there needs to be a serious recasting of the role of manufacturing in Australia, and new ways of having SME manufacturer voices heard by policymakers and the public, argues Peter Vaughan in the second of our series on reshoring. It has become a time-honoured cliché of…
This the third in our series on the importance of onshoring manufacturing operations looks at how Australia and New Zealand lost, and are now regaining, industrial capabilities. Here Peter Roberts looks at the core element of many manufactures – printed circuit boards. Richard Brady and Daniel Baxter have seen Australia and New Zealand’s capacity to…
The Australian Manufacturing Forum and @AuManufacturing’s campaign to crowd source a new deal plan for manufacturing post Covid-19 is now in its final week. Here Jeff Lang looks at lessons learned and the building blocks for a promising future. Australia has a rare opportunity to use the COVID-19 pandemic to reform our economy – the…
Innovation is featuring in submissions so far in our campaign to crowd source a continues @AuManufacturing’s campaign to crowd source a new deal manufacturing policy with eight keys to unlocking our manufacturing future. Send your ideas or make a submission to [email protected].”>new deal plan for manufacturing. Today Tom Kenyon looks at how to kickstart new…
Now that the true extent of the health challenge facing Australia is evident, attention is turning to the economy where sales slow-downs, disrupted supply chains and closed markets are taking their toll. Today BlueScope steel and Boral became the latest in what has become a flood of large manufacturers forced to rethink sales and profits…
A new Australian Stock Exchange index goes live today representing an all inclusive view of Australia’s technology companies – yet it fails to include any manufacturers.
Inventor Timothy Scott is commercialising a new 3D printer and resins, with speed, strength and other possible advantages over current light-based approaches. Brent Balinski spoke to Scott about the possibilities of volumetric production.
The Innovative Manufacturing Co-operative Research Centre is living up to its promise of driving industrial transformation, reporting $140 million worth of manufacturing research underway by June 30 this year. In its annual yearly highlights just released, CEO David Chuter reported a further $23 million of government cash had been invested alongside industry to create new…
