Shripathi V, Lead, Aerospace Technical Division, Indo-Pacific, Hexagon  Defence organisations are under growing pressure to ensure broader security from expanding threats, while grappling with technology updates, rising costs, and operational challenges. They must also transform to become more agile and responsive to ever-changing geopolitical risks, technological innovations, and shifting priorities. Often, delivering on time and within budget are the most formidable challenges that the defence industry faces when developing the capability of increasing sophistication and complexity. In ..read more

Chilled Drinks and Food During Trips There is an increasing demand and trend for onboard refrigerators in cars, and technology is making this a reality. In response to automotive customers’ constant search for greater comfort, onboard refrigerators will be available as a standard or optional feature in both top luxury brands and more mainstream models. Electric vehicles in particular are already able to supply a cooling unit with power to keep drinks and food perfectly chilled. The BD Nano compressor from Secop sets new standards in reliability and cooling performance of the fridge. Its prede ..read more

Fostering mentally healthy workplaces is top of mind for all employers, but actioning this across diverse workforces and in hybrid work environments poses a very real challenge. Medline empower managers and minimise risk Managing the priorities of keeping people safe at work, while also building psychologically safe workplaces, has caused a headache for many HR leaders who feel caught in a reactive cycle. If employees are only talking to their managers about wellbeing issues when things reach a critical point, the impact on the workplace is more widely felt. A proactive approach With this in ..read more

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) welcomes the vision for innovation and prosperity that the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese outlined today. ATSE has long called for ambitious action to take advantage of the opportunities ahead of us in energy, manufacturing, advanced technologies and more. Such action will crucially help arrest Australia’s slowing productivity growth and declining economic complexity that puts us at 93rd in the World. We look forward to seeing the details of the new initiatives as they are announced. The Prime Minister ha ..read more

-Deepen Desai, Chief Security Officer, Zscaler Why do you think threats to manufacturing companies are increasing? / Why was manufacturing the leading category targeted? The rise in threats targeting manufacturing companies can be attributed to several factors: manufacturing organisations have become hubs of innovation, driving significant economic impact as they work to rapidly adopt new technologies, IoT/OT devices, and dramatically expanding connectivity in their networks while overhauling legacy systems for improved productivity. This means, in turn, that they have become rich cyber targe ..read more

  Kimberly-Clark Australia contributes $520m to Australia’s GDP annually and supports over 2,600 direct and indirect jobs nationwide through its Millicent Mill in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.  As one of South Australia’s largest non-mining-based manufacturers, the Mill produces 85,000 tonnes of VIVA, Kleenex, and Scott essential paper products each year.  12 per cent of full-time manufacturing roles in the Limestone Coast are provided by the Mill.  Over $750 million has been invested into the Mill since it was first established in 1966. A new report relea ..read more

  How has the prospect of creating artificial realities in motion unveiled a spectrum of opportunities for manufacturers? The application of AI in manufacturing has the potential to transform the way products are designed and launched to market. OpenAI’s latest machine learning tool Sora can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions – a manufacturer could potentially take a drawing off a page and show it in motion in real-life situations and operate it to perfection long before any physical product is built. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can also ana ..read more

  Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has announced a $20 million investment to provide small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with greater access to vital research and development (R&D) opportunities to accelerate their growth. The funding will allow CSIRO’s SME Connect team to support up to 750 SMEs through a range of programs and initiatives that provide facilitation, training, dollar-matched funding and support to start-ups and SMEs seeking to engage in company-led research projects. One of the programs being supported is SME Connects fla ..read more

Sustainability, employee protection and operational insights are the drivers of a cutting-edge electrification upgrade at BHP BMA’s Goonyella Riverside Mine in Queensland. At the BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) conjoined metallurgical coal mines Goonyella and Riverside in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, Subra Nedunuri is responsible for delivering capital electrical projects without compromising environment, safety, quality, or mining schedules. When a 43-year-old section of Goonyella Riverside’s power infrastructure became unreliable, Nedunuri began designing an upgrade with ABB state-of-the-art cap ..read more

Plazmax, a leading manufacturer of CNC plasma cutting systems, is set to demonstrate its cutting-edge technology at Australian Manufacturing Week in Sydney at the Sydney International Convention Centre from April 17 to 19, 2024. Alongside their Australian Distributor, Semco, Plazmax will be conducting live cutting demonstrations featuring their flagship CutAce cutting system at Booth MT920 in Halls 1-3. The CutAce system embodies Plazmax’s commitment to excellence, incorporating Hypertherm’s world-leading XPR plasma cutting technology alongside Plazmax’s proprietary innovations. These innovat ..read more