Opinion

The heavy asset industry has proven resilient to economic, social, and environmental challenges it has faced over centuries of operation. In today’s environment of heightened technical advancement and greater-than-ever focus on employee wellbeing and productivity, Management Controls President Ken Naughton has identified several industry-leading trends that will impact decision-making through 2023 and into 2024.

With the global Metal Fabrication sector expected to grow globally at seven to ten per cent annually until at least 2032, many manufacturers are beginning to address what some are calling "The elephant in the room - Planning! 

After 5 years of painstaking work, leading micro molding innovator Accumold has developed a way to micro injection mold thin wall cannulas in very high volumes.

In our digital economy, the customer is in the driving seat. Not only can they freely access mountains of information, but they have the...

Advanced technologies and services can have a transformative effect in cost, product quality and productivity, substantially increasing the bottom line for manufacturing companies.

In the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has surged forward like a digital renaissance, echoing the rapid and transformative rise of the Internet in the late 1990s. It has revolutionised industries and redefined our daily lives with extraordinary speed – and its impact is set to grow even more substantially in the coming years.

Inkjet has quietly become one of the most versatile tools in modern manufacturing. What started as a technology for print is now being used across automotive, electronics, energy, mining, agriculture and advanced manufacturing.

In the precision-demanding realm of micromoulding, the selection of appropriate materials is not merely a step in the manufacturing process, it’s the cornerstone upon which the performance and reliability of the final product rest.

Manufacturing businesses have a strong incentive to improve their financial bottom line and return on investment, cut labour costs and increase productivity. To do this, organisations need to not only invest in IIoT technology, but they also require software to manage and monitor their networks.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 15 per cent of the world’s population, or over one billion people, live with some form of disability. In Australia, 18 per cent or 4.4 million people have a disability and 90 per cent of those have an invisible disability, according to a recent report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.