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Technologies and tools for a manufacturing transformation: why it’s important to commercialise new materials by Gary Walsh

Manufacturing News, TechnologyBy Staff Reporter June 10, 2020 Leave a comment

@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

Technologies and tools for a manufacturing transformation: next steps to competitiveness by Rowan Lamont

Manufacturing News, TechnologyBy Staff Reporter June 9, 2020 Leave a comment

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.

Finns double down on Aussie armour order

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter June 5, 2020 Leave a comment

The Finnish Defence Force has almost doubled its order of bullet-proof armour manufactured in South Australia following significant external validation.

Morrison’s VET reforms offer the same old promises, with no more money

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter June 3, 2020 Leave a comment

Prime Scott Morrison last week outlined a plan to create jobs and revitalise the economy post COVID-19. Part of this so-called Jobmaker plan includes an overhaul of the “bewildering”, “unresponsive” and “fundamentally flawed” skills sector.

Reshoring takes off as manufacturers risk-proof supply chains

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2020 5 Comments

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…

Reshoring depends on total rethink of manufacturing’s role by Peter Vaughan

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2020 3 Comments

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…

How one Auckland company has survived to fight another day

Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 3, 2020 2 Comments

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…

Slowly getting closer to the pointy end

Analysis and Commentary, Manufacturing NewsBy Brent Balinski June 1, 2020 2 Comments

Last week Brisbane medtech company Vaxxas, which is trying to reinvent the needle, announced plans to move to industrial-scale production. Brent Balinski spoke to the company’s Dr Angus Forster about getting from invention to impact.

The new deal plan for manufacturing – summary and recommendations

Analysis and Commentary, Manufacturing NewsBy Peter Roberts June 1, 2020 15 Comments

The @AuManufacturing new deal plan for manufacturing, crowd sourced from readers and members of the Australian Manufacturing Forum LInkedin group, is released today after two months work. Here we present the plan’s executive summary and core recommendations. The full plan may be downloaded here. After close to three decades of economic growth Australia’s luck has…

The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?

Manufacturing NewsBy Staff Reporter May 29, 2020 1 Comment

Although there are some jobs machines just can’t do, COVID-19 has left us wondering about the future of work and with this, the capacity of automation to step in where humans must step back.

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