Some of Australia’s most critical manufacturing happens where almost no one sees it: inside a fuel tank on a Navy tanker, in a machine shop south of Perth, on a workshop floor in western Sydney where a team is helping build autonomous underwater vehicles. Griffin Industrial does all three.

Manufacturing IT decision-makers are more likely than their technology-sector counterparts to use proactive and partially autonomous approaches to resolving technology issues, but uncertainty over AI’s business value remains a barrier to wider adoption, according to research from TeamViewer.