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Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) has launched its new funding initiative, IMCRC activate, with an Australian first — the development of a rapid COVID-19 test that uses optical technology. Designed to provide a much-needed stimulus to Australian manufacturing businesses in the wake of COVID-19, IMCRC activate stimulates and fast-tracks R&D investment, offering access to … Continue reading IMCRC launches first approved project for rapid COVID-19 test →

Earlier in my career I worked with many “best in class” lean manufacturers and I was struck by how many of their employees could remember, even years later, where it all started. They openly shared their story, and often I would meet the team that had been the catalyst for their on-going lean deployment. Years … Continue reading Deciding where to start in the Industry 4.0 journey →

Global manufacturing has been shaken by the pandemic. It’s not just the social distancing restrictions that have been placed on workplaces, which have forced them to operate in non-standard ways, the border closures and surge in demand for speciality goods (think toilet paper, hand sanitiser and PPE) laid bare just how vulnerable global supply chains … Continue reading Future-Proofing The Australian Manufacturing Industry Through Digital Transformation →

Novel solutions for biofilm infections are the focus of a collaborative research agreement between the University of Sydney, Whiteley Corporation and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) which started in 2018. UNSW Sydney joined the project in 2020, significantly increasing the academic manpower available to the project. Over four years, more than $5 million … Continue reading Manufacturing research partnership to tackle harmful biofilms →

This Thursday 24th September at 11am Simplus is hosting a webinar for senior leaders of Australian Manufacturing companies in partnership with IMCRC where we will explore the topic “how companies are adopting digital technologies to remain competitive”. In the 1960s, manufacturing equated to 30 per cent of the Australian economy. In 2020, it’s 5.5 per … Continue reading Manufacturing Revival: Is a new era of Industry 4.0 in Australian manufacturing upon us? →

Throughout my 35-year manufacturing career, my focus has always been on helping businesses improve and optimise their manufacturing operations. Bringing the best of lean and six sigma to the factory floor, saw me busy running production facilities, streamlining business processes and delivering multiple improvement programs, across many industry sectors. Since joining the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative … Continue reading More manufacturing explorers needed →

Caroline Tung speaks to aerospace components manufacturer Quickstep and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) to find out more about the importance of digitisation.   Aerospace components manufacturer Quickstep was founded in Perth in 2001 as a research and development (R&D) company by the Graham family. From 2001, through until 2009, the company has … Continue reading Digital thinking is the way forward for manufacturers →

A new manufacturing research project brings together industry technology and engineering experts from Boral, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Southern Highland Concrete Constructions to develop advanced technology for manufacturing, placing and curing novel ultra-sustainable concrete in Australia. The project aims to overcome current technological barriers of low-carbon concrete manufacturing and accelerate the development … Continue reading UTS research project to push boundaries for concrete manufacturing →

Australia’s Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC), the University of South Australia (UniSA) and BAE Australia’s shipbuilding business, ASC Shipbuilding, are joining forces to fund data visualisation research that will prepare Australian industry for a future driven by digital innovation. The partnership will see more than $4 million invested in research to develop world-leading manufacturing … Continue reading Local partnership to deliver leading digital tech to shipbuilding →

It is a common belief that you can make almost anything you want when it comes to 3D printing. Bits and pieces ranging from a splint for a broken arm, a bulldozer part that has split or cracked, to a malfunctioning part on a navy ship patrolling high seas in the Middle East, can be … Continue reading 3D printing to thrive during COVID-19 and beyond →

Last month, I wrote of the importance of leadership in manufacturing during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring five imperatives: recognising and protecting value drivers, prioritising breakthroughs, collaborating on shared problems, mitigating risk through co-funding programs and building resiliency through local supply chains. Where to now as we start emerging from the worst of this crisis? “Never … Continue reading Australia’s manufacturing future – the industrial shift needed →

David Chuter, IMCRC CEO and managing director, outlines why now is the most important time for manufacturing in Australia.  When it comes to manufacturing leadership, resilience is a key theme we have been discussing at the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) this year. Manufacturers, like most, now fear the uncertainty of 2020 and beyond. … Continue reading Manufacturing leadership in the face of uncertainty →

BAE Systems Australia’s shipbuilding business, ASC Shipbuilding, and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) will together fund a research project to develop cutting-edge manufacturing technologies that will be used to build nine anti-submarine warfare frigates. ASC Shipbuilding will then use the technologies to build the Hunter class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy at its world-class … Continue reading BAE Systems and IMCRC fund shipbuilding project →

In today’s world of global competition and digital disruption, Australian manufacturers are becoming acutely aware of the need to do things differently, David Chuter, CEO and managing director of the IMCRC, explains. The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) has brought with it a range of new technologies that have enabled manufacturers to disrupt and transform … Continue reading Effective industry and research collaboration: Cultivating the right culture →

David Chuter, CEO and managing director, IMCRC, explains how to look beyond the technology of Industry 4.0, and focus on its value to manufacturing. Every day, business leaders, in partnership with the Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC), are searching for ways to embrace and invest in the advanced and digital technologies that have become closely associated … Continue reading Towards an Industry 4.0 future – leadership for innovation →

New methods of using graphite in advanced carbon materials (ACM) manufacturing will be investigated in a partnership between Hazer Group and the University of Sydney’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, supported by the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC). Hazer has already been involved in R&D with the School, however, under the recent announcement … Continue reading Partnership to investigate graphite from carbon →

Sapphire mining company, Lava Blue, has joined with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) to turn kaolin clay into high-purity alumina (HPA). HPA can be used to make LEDs and lithium ion batteries. If successful, this method would avoid having to use high-purity aluminium to make HPA, … Continue reading HPA to be made from sapphire mining clay →

The second day of IoT Impact 2019, hosted by the IoT Alliance Australia, saw manufacturers showcasing how IoT was impacting upon their business. With some manufacturers still using pen and paper for product innovation, according to Bradley Trewin, national sales manager at Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions, the opportunity for IoT adoption to improve productivity is … Continue reading Industry leaders discuss IIoT implementation →

Australia is well-placed to take advantage of the economic transformation of one of its nearest neighbours, with Thailand adopting an Industry 4.0 to promote and support innovation, creativity, research and development (R&D), higher technologies and green technologies. The program hopes to modernise industries and supply chains with the incorporation of smart technologies and digital innovation. … Continue reading Thailand open to Australian Industry 4.0 support →

Technology company Verton Australia is joining with Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) to manufacture the first robot-controlled load-management system in the world. The new system will aim to eliminate the need for human-held taglines for crane operations, reducing the risk of human injury, and is a $4.4 … Continue reading Partnership to make robot-controlled load-management system →