The big news in the automotive industry last month was the escalation of the ongoing Takata airbag affair.
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‘Grey’ workers hold the key to manufacturing’s future
The UK’s workforce is getting older and older, and manufacturing will be particularly hard hit.
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Lean Lessons from Japan – Australian Industry Group Lean Japan Tour
In November, Shinka Management, in conjunction with the Australian Industry Group, conducted a lean manufacturing study tour of Japan. The tour provided Australian industry leaders with first-hand experience of world-class lean implementation in a country renowned for its productivity, quality and safety levels.
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A view on: Australia’s manufacturing industry
Many people seem to equate manufacturing with 19th century technology, with the steam engine and grease, but in fact that is not the case.
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New standard offers safer, more economical storage systems
New racking standard moves from a "permissible stress" design philosophy to a "limit states" design approach.
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New standard for smarter, safer, more economical storage systems
Dr Murray Clarke, Structural Design Manager of Dematic previews some of the key changes in a new standard, AS4804-2012 covering the design of steel storage racking systems.
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OPINION: We can’t be all things to all men, but we can make aluminium
If Australia cannot make aluminium and aluminium components competitively, what country can?
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Designing storage systems to cope with earthquakes
Designing rack structures to cope with the unpredictable forces generated during an earthquake requires a combination of detailed engineering, sophisticated computer analysis, and a degree of crystal ball gazing – on the part of the engineer – into how the storage system may be utilised over its lifetime.
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Grant Anderson to become CEO of leading Global Machine Tool Manufacturer, ANCA
Grant Anderson to become CEO of leading Global Machine Tool Manufacturer, ANCA
A new leader positions the company for growth as the market upturn sees a dramatic rise in demand with ANCA receiving double the number of orders than ever before
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Grant Anderson to become CEO of leading Global Machine Tool Manufacturer, ANCA
Grant Anderson to become CEO of leading Global Machine Tool Manufacturer, ANCA
A new leader positions the company for growth as the market upturn sees a dramatic rise in demand with ANCA receiving double the number of orders than ever before
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Balancing production lines
RESEARCHERS and industrialists have spent a lot of time and money trying to design balanced production lines so as to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
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Myth busting and back pain
FEW in the manufacturing industry are strangers to back pain, so it's important to know what to do if and when it strikes.
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Where is Australian manufacturing going?
THE world financial crisis has now exposed Australian trade as never before.
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Gases for laser material processing, commodity or optimising tool?
LASERS ensure highly reliable processes across a wide variety of industrial and engineering sectors for welding, cutting and drilling parts during manufacturing or for repair. They are also useful for marking or etching serial numbers or part numbers during manufacturing.
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Japan still shows the way
Editorial comment piece from the March issue of Manufacturers' Monthly.
Japan has taken manufacturing production techniques to a new level, with a heavy focus on reducing production time, increased training and more worker involvement.
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