Bluetooth 5 has been released (succeeding Bluetooth 4.2), with the upgrade focusing on IoT applications and improved functionality.
When compared to the previous version, improvements include eight times
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Bosch & Co retool manufacturing concepts
A research consortium led by Bosch is developing a novel industrial manufacturing concept. The nine partners on the ReCaM project aim to create a highly versatile manufacturing system.
Such systems are
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Westpac finds SMEs are feeling optimistic about 2017
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute SME Index (SME Index), which examines the economic health of Australian small and medium sized enterprises, has revealed a significant improvement in business confidence,
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Are millennials a manufacturing innovation opportunity?
In June last year, it was announced that Australia’s manufacturing sector had achieved year on year expansion recording the longest unbroken period of growth in a decade. Although that sounds like good
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CSIRO to spend $200m on Aussie innovation
Australia’s innovations will grow into successful businesses with help from the CSIRO Innovation Fund, a $200 million fund to commercialise early stage innovations from CSIRO, universities and other
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Sydney’s new trains to be made in China
According to reports, Downer Rail has sub-contracted all manufacturing duties of 24 double deck Sydney A or Waratah class trains to joint venture partner, China’s CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles
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New tech hub opened in South Australia
South Australia has opened a new manufacturing technologies centre to help businesses grow by providing access to the state’s best researchers, financial institutions and global supply chains.
The $1.2
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Fanuc & Nvidia announce AI collaboration
Nvidia and Fanuc Corporation have announced that they will be collaborating to implement artificial intelligence on the Fanuc Intelligent Edge Link and Drive (FIELD) system to increase robotics productivity
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Stone & Wood mulls expansion to quench thirst for demand
Byron Bay beer maker Stone & Wood has been reported to be looking to further expand its largest brewery as sales jump by 60 per cent to more than $30 million as a response to rivals’ “corporate
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Thales snaps up Collins sub sonar contract
The Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, today announced that Thales Australia has been awarded a $100 million contract to design a major sonar system upgrade for Collins class submarines.
Minister
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Turnbull trusts in a Trump TPP turnaround
With Asia Pacific leaders reaffirming their commitment to free trade at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Peru, Malcolm Turnbull is “confident” that US president elect Donald Trump will
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Cochlear loses US patent appeal
ASX-listed Australian hearing implant manufacturer Cochlear has lost a court case in the US over two disputed hearing aid patents.
In a ruling delivered last Thursday, the [US] Court of Appeals for the
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Schaeffler cuts jobs but Asia Pac remains unaffected
In a bid to re-strategise its business plans for growth in 2017, German bearing maker Schaeffler has announced that it looks to shave off 500 jobs at its industrial division in Germany and other European
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Kion completes Dematic acquisition
Materials handling company, the Kion Group, has successfully completed its $2.1 billion dollar (A$2.86 billion) acquisition of automation and supply chain optimisation specialist Dematic earlier this month.
With
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Boral cements its acquisition of US building products maker
Boral has entered into a binding agreement to acquire US building products maker Headwaters.
The US$2.6 billion deal is subject to shareholder approval and regulatory approval, and is expected to complete
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OPINION: So how will the manufacturing sector respond to President Trump?
According to a recent article in Forbes, America’s manufacturers are getting very worried.
As you read this, a number of influential US manufacturers and their associated industry representatives are
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AusNet profits fall by 52 per cent
Victorian energy company AusNet Services’ first-half statutory net profit has fallen by 52 per cent on its previous year’s result.
Net profit for the six months to September 30 was $178.6 million,
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BlueScope launches workplace safety app
BlueScope Steel has partnered with TOLL, K&S Transport and Buzinga App Development to improve health and safety methods for their employees and contractors through the safety app, ‘SteelDrive’.
The
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Did Murray Goulburn overstate its earnings?
A forensic accountant has alleged that dairy processor Murray Goulburn may have overstated its earnings and even lost money in the last financial year.
It was claimed in early November that its treatment
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Carbon capture industry must expand says global body
Speaking at a press conference to launch its Global Status of CCS: 2016 Report at the twenty second conference of the parties (COP 22) in Marrakech yesterday, Global CCS Institute Chief Executive, Brad
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