Tag: Technology

Peacock Group is expanding its Victorian operations with an 8,000-square-metre purpose-built facility in Dandenong South that will bring Peacock Bros. and insignia together and increase the Group’s combined warehouse and production footprint by about 66 per cent.

Scott Technology has launched a new automated palletising system targeting manufacturers seeking higher production throughput within constrained manufacturing footprints, as the New Zealand-based automation company expands its Materials Handling & Logistics (MHL) portfolio.

CSIRO has commissioned a new Powder Lab in Clayton, Melbourne, to help Australian manufacturers develop and test tailored metal powders for additive manufacturing.

Engineers Australia has called on the Federal Government to place engineering and technical expertise at the centre of Australia’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that the country’s AI ambitions will require investment in people, infrastructure and technical oversight alongside the technology itself.

Australian building products manufacturer Brickworks has modernised its integration architecture using Boomi’s enterprise platform, aiming to reduce technology complexity, accelerate project delivery and improve access to enterprise data.

Sparc Technologies has completed the first commercial delivery of its ecosparc® graphene additive to a Tier 1 coatings customer, marking a further step in the manufacturing and commercialisation of the Australian-developed technology, according to Sparc.

Five doctoral students have presented their research as potential commercial ventures in what the Australian Composites Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (ACM CRC) described as a nation-first pitching competition.

LG Electronics is accelerating its robotics manufacturing capabilities through a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA, combining the company’s manufacturing and logistics data with NVIDIA’s robotics development technologies.

Seeing Machines has launched a Physical AI Platform designed to give humanoid robots and industrial automation systems greater awareness of people and their surroundings, with manufacturing among the industries identified as a potential application.

Manufacturing is among the sectors identified as having opportunities to scale over the next decade as population growth, infrastructure investment and major projects reshape demand across Australia, according to The Scale-up Opportunity: Australia’s Next Decade report.