This year’s Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards honoured women veterans of the industry.
Minister for Industry and Employment Ben Carroll presented the inaugural Woman Manufacturer of the Year
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Swinburne partners with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Industry 4.0 research
Swinburne University has formalised a research partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Germany as part of an arrangement for the two organisations
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Queensland IIoT company, Movus, secures $4.8m investment
Blackbird Ventures, Telstra Ventures and Skip Capital have invested $4.8 million in Brisbane-headquartered company Movus, a developer of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) sensor and machine monitoring
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Digital transformation to contribute $45bn to Australian economy – study
Digital transformation will add an estimated $45 billion to Australia’s economy by 2021 and increase its growth rate by 0.5 per cent annually, according to a new study.
Unlocking the Economic Impact
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Swinburne plans industrial 3D printer for world-first Industry 4.0 Testlab
Swinburne University of Technology is to build the world’s first operational Industry 4.0 Testlab for carbon composite manufacturing as part of its research into digital manufacturing processes.
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Schneider Electric increases APM solutions offerings
Schneider Electric has announced increasing momentum surrounding customer adoption of the company’s Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions, an integral component of the Industrial Software Platform.
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Former CSIRO scientist to lead Swinburne’s Factory of the Future
Former CSIRO scientist, Dr Nico Adams, has been appointed as the new Director of Swinburne’s advanced manufacturing facility, the Factory of the Future.
Dr Adams has a background in materials and manufacturing
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Swinburne researchers receive $3.45m gov grant for energy research
Swinburne researchers have secured $3.45 million in funding to continue work on a project investigating energy storage alternatives using graphene oxide – the lightest, strongest and most electrically
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$1b of grants to prep students for digital economy
Siemens has announced an industrial software grant of $447 million commercial value of Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software to the University of Western Australia (UWA). This grant
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IIC launches smart factory machine learning testbed
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global organisation transforming business and society by accelerating the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has announced the Smart Factory
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Smart factories: A global snapshot
Australia and Germany collaborate on modern manufacturing
Leader of the Prime Minister’s Industry 4.0 Taskforce, Siemens ANZ CEO Jeff Connolly, has visited Hannover Messe to sign a joint collaboration agreement with Germany’s Platform Industrie 4.0 Group.
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Deloitte: Manufacturers “woefully unprepared” for supply chain threats
A new study from Deloitte has found that cyber security breaches in manufacturing plants are increasing, with the sector “woefully unprepared” for these threats.
Titled Industry 4.0 and Cyber
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Siemens Australia strengthens Colterlec partnership
Siemens Australia has strengthened its distribution partnership with Colterlec to include automation portfolio and associated products. The agreement will extend Siemens’ footprint in suburban and regional
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The next industrial revolution will reinvent supply chains
Digital mediation platforms and trends such as the circular economy will profoundly change the ways manufacturers operate, believes supply chain expert Jan Godsell. Brent Balinski spoke to the Warwick Manufacturing Group professor about how this could look.
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Robots and the real world
All over the world, ageing populations and changing attitudes are making it harder to hold on to workers, believes Dr Rodney Brooks. Brent Balinski spoke to Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, about some demographic and technology shifts to watch out for and why it’s best to be realistic.
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The future ain’t what it used to be, minister tells manufacturing forum
The manufacturing industry in Australia has fundamentally changed, though it has a future, “a different future”, the assistant federal industry minister told an audience this week.
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How an export champion maintains its innovation edge
A frequently-used case study on what Australian advanced manufacturing encompasses - including a global mindset, high-value products and sophisticated technology - ANCA is a local manufacturers’ manufacturer. Co-founder Pat Boland told Brent Balinski a few things about what guides the company’s approach to innovation.
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Competing to win with Industry 4.0
Spreading the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies among Australian manufacturers is vital to lifting their international competitiveness, according to the Australian Manufacturing Growth Centre. Brent Balinski spoke to the group’s chair, Andrew Stevens, about a new partnership aimed at encouraging this adoption.
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AMGC invests $250,000 in project funding at Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute
Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre’s Chairman Andrew Stevens has announced funding of $250,000 toward Swinburne Manufacturing Futures Research Institute to boost the adoption of Industry 4.0 processes increasing Australian manufacturing competitiveness.
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