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In the face of significant challenges, investing in a young and dynamic workforce can help Australian manufacturers to remain competitive and innovative in an increasingly challenging market.

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the ability to disrupt industrial processes and to facilitate the achievement of innovative, cost-effective, and speedy outcomes when compared to traditional production processes.

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In an effort to address the need and demand for more sustainable manufacturing as well as more robust and flexible supply chains in a strategically, financially, and environmentally beneficial way, ongoing collaborations between additive manufacturing technology developers and practitioners are paving the way.

Australia needs to find new and better ways to store energy in order to meet the industry’s night-time heat requirements once coal and fossil gas have fully transitioned out of the system. 

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Making automobiles lighter is one of several techniques to reduce the energy necessary for transportation. In particular, high-strength (HS) steels are ideal candidates for this application because their higher weight-to-strength ratio allows for the use of less metal to achieve comparable structural integrity. 

Manufacturers using welding techniques suffer from limitations in realising complex structures because of the limited process of building one layer at a time – this is because subsequent layers are laminated after complete solidification preventing the molten metal from flowing down. As a result, a cooling period is necessary, and the circumstances that can be laminated are restricted to certain examples.

Aerospace company Sidus Space has recognised additive manufacturing’s capability as a highly effective tool to optimise weight in systems designed to reach space, with the development of a 3D-printed satellite set to launch in 2023.

A series of partnerships between small business players and academia have received backing from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to realise big research and development outcomes in various industries, including manufacturing.