Tag: traditional manufacturing

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.

Cyclical change occurs in industry when novel and innovative technologies and methodologies start to transform and disrupt existing industrial practices. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 in common parlance is one such cyclical change that we are current in the midst of. It can be loosely defined as the introduction of automation and data exchange to create self governing manufacturing systems illustrated below.

Labour costs have begun to rise making automation more attractive and threatening job security. Focus has also shifted from mass produced products to customised products particularly in the field of consumer products. Fortunately, 3D printing is able to mitigate these changes and allow manufacturing to shift from traditional to advanced production.

Thales Australia has released concept plans for the future of Lithgow Arms – a precinct to develop and manufacture the next generation soldier weapons...

Queensland Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning, Cameron Dick, has announced the establishment of a new Manufacturing Skills Working Group, tasked with overseeing the recommendations of a...

Viva Energy Australia has announced that its Geelong Refinery has begun manufacturing a new solvent product once more. The production of Vivasol X55 at Geelong...

3D Systems unveiled a super cool product at this year’s CES – the 3D printed Liquid-Cooled Computer. 3D Systems’ team of engineers basically redesigned the...

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Professor John Bell, who chaired the Industrial biotechnology and additive bio-manufacturing session at the Advanced Manufacturing Summit in Sydney...

A research conducted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) have proposed the Government to tender for major projects to require Australian-made new...