As many firms will tell you, “business as usual” means falling behind. Brent Balinski spoke to senior management at Geofabrics Australasia about how they look to all employees to help refresh their operations.
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A fourth industrial revolution is powering the rise of smart manufacturing
Technology is all around us, and sometimes in us. We experience it daily in the way we stream music, in how we use an app to navigate a museum
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Feeling the need for design speed in submarines
The transfer of world-leading technologies to Australia’s manufacturers was part of the lobbying efforts from Future Submarine contestants. Brent Balinski spoke to Dassault Systèmes co-founder Philippe Forrestier about what the victorious French team brings to the table.
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Automotive echoes
The mere mention of ‘automotive’ in Australia typically triggers an allergic reaction, so we won’t be talking about it … much.
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Advanced manufacturing and the federal election
The Australian Advanced Manufacturing Council calls on all parties to state their policies on driving success in Australian advanced manufacturing and to respond to where they stand on a range of important
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Reducing bankruptcy to 12 months ignores realities of insolvency
Bringing back the human touch: Industry 5.0 concept creating factories of the future
While there is a global movement built around creating smart, connected factories of the future, a new trend towards putting the human touch back in production is transforming the manufacturing process.
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A snapshot of the HMI market
Human-machine interface (HMI) technology is becoming increasingly prevalent; not just in everyday life, but in industry too.
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Companies need to look further than their own backyard
Success isn’t about just making things for a domestic market. Brent Balinski spoke to Michael Grogan, who recently finished up as CEO of Sutton Tools, about going global, and why the industry’s future is a bright one.
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Monash and Melbourne Universities join forces in new company to market medicines
Traditional rivals Monash and Melbourne Universities are collaborating to create a new company that will market and sell medicines developed by the institutions to pharmaceutical companies, reinvesting
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Pumped about the future
Recent Endeavour Awards champion Admedus is growing briskly, with their tissue engineering process being used to repair hearts all over the world. Brent Balinski spoke to the company’s chief operating
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Vital Signs: sluggish business investment shows caution is king
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise
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Murray Goulburn saga has roots in deregulation
The history of the dairy cooperative Murray Goulburn and its farmer suppliers shows how a close relationship of trust has developed and been broken with the collapse of the farmgate milk price. Roots of
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From disrupter to disrupted: Apple could be next
The Innovation Statement and manufacturing: what should the industry expect in 2016 and beyond?
When Malcolm Turnbull outlined the National Innovation and Science Agenda in December last year, he got people in industry talking – from big businesses to budding entrepreneurs.
The statement
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Leveraging data for smarter energy management
Data has completely revolutionised how we live from the way we utilise technology and interact with our loved ones to how we go about our work. In fact, almost 90 per cent of all the data in the world
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An urban workshop? Why office workers want to make ‘real’ things
In March, 15,000 people attended the Lost Trades Fair in the country town of Kyneton, Victoria. Eighty rare trades were
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Sales increase by up to 56% when shoppers know a product will last
From fashion to food and electronics, many industries are facing a backlash against cheaply made products that do not last. Sick of printers that break within two years, or suitcases that fall apart the
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Little future in Australia focussing on garden variety steel
Can Australia still make steel? Brent Balinski spoke to metals expert Professor Geoff Brooks from Swinburne University about the industry’s difficulties, where it can excel, and the competition it
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YOU at the Endeavour Awards 2016 [PICTURES]
Last week we held what we regard as the most successful Endeavour Awards so far. As is always the case, we have taken many pictures of our guests, who helped us celebrate the many success stories within
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