By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Western Sydney University Australia is in the grip of a severe housing shortage. Many people are finding it extremely difficult to find a place to live in the face of rising rents and property price surges. Homelessness is rising sharply. Tent cities are becoming more common. The federal government has pledged to…
In the next profile for our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers series, we hear from Dr Farzaneh Ahmadi, who turned her life’s work restoring a voice to those who’ve lost it into a promising bionics business. Brent Balinski spoke to Ahmadi, the founder and CEO of Laronix. Every now and then you hear a story…
Construction of the First Building at the new Bradfield City Centre in western Sydney – housing Stage 1 of the Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility (AMRF) – has been completed. Located close to the new airport serving Western Sydney, the AMRF will offer support to help businesses grow faster, reduce risks, and compete globally, while strengthening…
Japanese electronics company Omron has announced the opening of its new Oceania regional headquarters at Western Sydney University’s Engineering Innovation Hub, located at the Parramatta City Campus According to a statement from WSU on Monday, the precinct will be a regional base for Omron, which will officially launch its Proof of Concept (PoC) Centre on…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Monash betadine battery breakthrough begets new company Engineering researchers from Monash University have formed a new lithium sulphur (Li-S) battery startup, armed with chemistry inspired by an over-the-counter antiseptic and initially targeting drone applications. According to a statement from the…
In the first profile as part of our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign, we look at a business that is borrowing from nature to build event-based vision sensors. Brent Balinski speaks to Optera Solutions founder/CEO Jonathon Wolfe. As anybody who has tried to do it will tell you, taking research breakthroughs and turning them…
As this publication has noted before, one of the defining features of manufacturing in this nation is the large number of small companies. And while we regularly note the SMEs’ entrepreneurial streak and contributions to progress, being of a certain size comes with its limitations. SMEs spend 24 per cent more on R&D than large…
A new report published by the James Martin Institute for Public Policy (JMI) examines the state of Industry 4.0 adoption among NSW SME manufacturers and ways to lift this. Recharging SME manufacturing in NSW, authored by Western Sydney University Associate Professor Dilupa Nakandala, identifies barriers to adoption including “specific leadership capabilities, people, skills and experience,…
Nature-derived insecticide company Bio-Gene Technology and its Indian contract manufacturer Rallis have announced successful production of pre-commercial quantities of the Flavocide product. In a statement on Monday, Bio-Gene said it had appointed Rallis – part of the Tata Group conglomerate – based on its record of agri-chemical products made to stringent standards, as well as…
Western Sydney University’s Parramatta campus will host the Sensing the West Forum next week, organised by the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) in collaboration with WSU, the Celestino Sydney Science Park Urban Living Lab and CSIRO. According to a statement from NSSN on Monday, the day-long event on March 13 will be opened by NSW…
