Case Study

A Queensland family-run laundry aims to develop a world-first automation system for one of the most labour-intensive tasks in commercial laundries – picking up, flattening, and feeding clean towels into an automated folding machine, before they are returned to the customer.

In a bid to achieve better part repeatability with advanced metal additive manufacturing (AM) across the globe, a network of contract manufacturers has collaborated and obtained significant results in printing the same print file of an industrial part using Velo3D Sapphire systems in six locations.

For a smaller freight-forwarding company to compete with international behemoths, Global Trade Logistics founder Gary Coutsoudis knows he and his team must outperform.

Western Australia-based company SQP Engineering has joined various industrial companies that turned to Markforged’s FX20 3D printer to produce specialised parts that would otherwise be too expensive or outright impossible to machine. 

A team led by Professor Andrea Morello at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has just exhibited the operation of a new type of quantum bit called a 'flip-flop' qubit, which combines the quantum properties of single atoms with easy controllability using electric signals similar to those used in standard computer chips.

Gartner has emphasised the importance of human-centric strategies in unlocking the full value of connected factory worker initiatives, stating that organisations must go beyond immediate cost savings to achieve long-term strategic benefits.