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Watch the engineers (is that what you’d call them?) at LEGO make a life-size 2012 Ford Explorer model out of LEGO bricks in less than 90 seconds! OK, so there is time-lapse photography at play here. But still, we think it’s pretty incredible. A little something for the child-manufacturer in all of us!

What do you do when you need precision parts machined for an oil processing project in the middle of the ocean? Send in the experts, of course. Check out this video of the FARO Laser Tracker, an ingenious system used by one manufacturing company to cut-out the tedious surveying legwork required to start the job.

Sydney manufacturer of hardware for sliding and folding doors, the Brio Group, has gained a foothold in the lucrative US building market and opened a new subsidiary, Brio USA Inc.

WA unions have revealed that Chevron outsourced the majority of its engineering and fabrication for its $29 billion Wheatstone LNG development to overseas companies before the final investment decision was even made, cutting local suppliers out of the equation.