Continuing yesterday’s sustainability theme, @AuManufacturing’s “technologies and tools…” turns to the potential of bioenergy, which is underutilised in Australia compared to Europe. Shaun Scallan explains.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla begins week two of our technologies and tools for a manufacturing transformation series. She writes about one element of sovereign capability generally overlooked in the current discussion.
Today, @AuManufacturing’s “technologies and tools…” series turns to technology adoption among SMEs. Inu Rana and David Fox look at some of the difficulties and benefits of increased digitalisation for smaller companies, and what it means in practical terms. There is no denying that technology is making an impact on manufacturing worldwide, helping the industry keep…
On day two of our new series, aimed at helping businesses transform their operations to compete and grow through new tools and technologies, we hear from Carl de Koning. He lays out eight characteristics important to advanced manufacturers. Over the past 40 years, I have had the privilege of working for three exceptional companies: Air…
Over April, we invited the @AuManufacturing and Australian Manufacturing Forum communities to have their say on what policies the sector needs to thrive.
@AuManufacturing’s highly successful new deal plan for manufacturing was aimed at Australia’s policy makers. Our new series, crowd sourced advice from our manufacturing community, aims to help businesses transform their operations to compete and grow through new tools and technologies. Here Gary Walsh explains why it’s important to commercialise new materials by taking ideas out of the lab and into industrial reality
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…
