Now is not the time for engineering companies in Australia to be ‘retiring’ experienced design engineers, project engineers, and estimators. It has not been common practice in the past to electronically harness the decades of knowledge stored in the minds of these engineers, and when they leave the workplace, all this intellectual bounty goes with them.
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Can the world’s biggest factory ever be fully green?
Like Henry Ford before him, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is taking a new approach to car making. Where Ford focused on manufacturing a car that the mass market could afford, Musk is keen to build a vehicle that the environment can bear.
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Opportunities within the manufacturing workforce
Kronos recently undertook a survey to examine the feedback from people working in the manufacturing sector.
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Technology reshaping manufacturing
As Australian manufacturers prepare for the year ahead, a range of economic and business forces are making the task particularly challenging.
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Rise of corporate divorces leads to fleeting gains
For the global mergers and acquisitions market, 2014 has been a year of strong recovery.
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In Conversation: Australia needs tax breaks for innovation
The right support could see Australian innovation, particularly in mining and manufacturing.
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The state of Australia: business
In this ten part Conversation series writers examine the state of Australia. In this edition our business and economy is looked in to ahead of the budget.
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Gas policy and opportunity
Peter Reith’s Gas Market Taskforce report for the Victorian Government came with high expectations.
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Beyond R2-D2: Australian manufacturing’s robotics wish-list
What manufacturers are looking to get from their robots on the factory floor.
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Mackay Consolidated wins big in export market with new business
In good news for local manufacturing, Mackay Consolidated Industries has announced its exports for locally-made automotive and defence parts is growing rapidly.
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Mackay Consolidated wins big in export market with new business
In good news for local manufacturing, Mackay Consolidated Industries has announced its exports for locally-made automotive and defence parts is growing rapidly.
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Melbourne rubber reaps rewards with new presses
Local composites manufacturer cashes in on mining and defence markets after adding four new presses to the mix.
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Automation system powers kitchen production
In a bid to introduce manufacturing efficiencies, Australian Kitchen Industries (AKI), has introduced Australia's first automated kitchen assembly line with quicker turnaround times and higher quality work.
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Optimising milling operations
MILLING a flat face is the most straight-forward machining operation.
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Confirming Letters of Credit for today’s world
The present global financial crisis is having a major impact on manufacturing exporters, but help is at hand.
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Managing your export finance risk
If banks won't come to the party, there are other options.
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Engineering mechatronic handling systems
AN emerging trend in machine construction is the modularisation of machines and installations into mechatronic sub-systems to form a transparent overall system, with virtual mapping, simulation and control of production on PC workstations.
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Putting the ‘man’ back into manufacturing
SINCE the industrial revolution the holy grail of manufacturing has been a fully automated system that runs on a demand basis at full efficiency and minimal labour cost. Yet the reality is that quality standards can only be guaranteed with human involvement and with consumers increasingly looking for product customisation, the assembly line approach is not cost effective.
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Fostering safety on our roads
One hundred per cent safety, all of the time. That’s the internal safety culture BOC actively promotes to all employees. That’s why the company has instituted Driver Safety, an innovative ongoing recognition and continuous safe driver awareness program.
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Developing a training and safety culture
WHEN you are employed in a Victoria University TAFE campus that specialises in the delivery of training and assessment for cranes, trucks, forklifts, rigging, warehousing and the new safety induction card, you take safety seriously.
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