An Australian-developed agtech product named FurrowMate, a direct air injection unit that integrates with air seeders to deliver biological products, has been launched by Loam Bio. Orange-headquartered Loam Bio is a developer of microbial technology for capturing carbon and increasing the health of agricultural soils. In a statement on Monday marking the launch of FurrowMate…
Robots are coming to the fore following the launch of one of Queensland’s largest cake factories.
Sign up now for our webinar – New Insights from Old Factories – taking place tomorrow, Wednesday, 6th December at 10.00 (AEST) with manufacturing leaders discussing ways to seamlessly and affordably integrate your factory. For more information and to register for the webinar go here. @AuManufacturing and software solutions provider Fusion5 present Adam Amos, Director,…
Not for profit industry development group DMTC Ltd is pioneering an innovative programme that brings together half a dozen like minded defence manufacturers to implement ‘smart enough’ Industry 4.0 technologies to begin their digitisation journey. DMTC’s industry capability development programme leader Charlotte Morris said DMTC provides the SMEs with hardware and open source software to…
Metroglass is Australia and New Zealand’s leading manufacturer of double glazed windows with seven Australasian processing plants and twelve retail sites, and the problem it faced was pretty typical of many manufacturers. Rapid expansion saw the company with a plethora of software applications, legacy solutions, and underinvestment in IT and infrastructure, resulting in inconsistent data,…
@AuManufacturing and software solutions provider Fusion5 will present our latest webinar webinar – New Insights from Old Factories – on Wednesday, 6th December at 10.00 (AEST) with manufacturing CEOs discussing ways to seamlessly and affordably integrate your factory. For more information and to register for the webinar go here. The webinar features Adam Amos, Director,…
Sometimes manufacturers can become a lot more than just an SME while still utilising small business enterprise software. One such was New Zealand manufacturer Natural Pet Food Group which has operations in NZ, Australia and the United States, an associate company in Japan and staff in Canada and China. There came a time when its…
The media talks less about the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) nowadays but the power of the technology remains despite it not being the ‘new hot thing’ in manufacturing. Combined with ERP manufacturing management software, IoT devices offer a simple way to derive real-time insights from existing machinery and processes – modernising and automating in…