Metalworking & Machining Feature Articles

Australian businesses now have access to the expertise and experience to build stronger connections between industry and science under the Research Connections stream of the Government's ...

The Australian government has now opened applications for the "Manufacturing Transition Programme", a $50 million initiative aimed at continuing the Australian manufacturing industry's ...

The Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) slipped back into negative territory in August, following a short-lived stabilisation in ...

The Australian government has taken steps to support domestic manufacturing through fleet procurement until the end of local car production.

Master Builders' latest Survey of Industry Conditions for the June 2014 quarter reveals improved residential and commercial sector conditions despite a third successive downward ...

Diode lasers – used in laser pointers, barcode scanners, DVD players, and other low-power applications – are perhaps the most efficient, compact, and low-cost lasers available.

Australia's continued shift from heavy industrial manufacturing to higher value-added, technologically advanced manufacturing may be inevitable in the next ten years, but the skills ...

The buzz around additive manufacturing – joining materials layer-by-layer from a three-dimensional model – is growing, particularly if the stock prices of 3D printing companies is ...

A Queensland steel company has been forced to pay $17,500 in damages for using unlicensed software.

A recent reported has suggested that the future for the laser cutting sector for the next seven years looks set for growth thanks to a combination of economic growth, developing ...

Australia risks being left behind as the only country in the OECD that does not have a national science and technology, or innovation policy, an expert told a packed forum recently. ...

CNC specialist The Lincoln Electric Company explains the Seven Deadly Sins (or should that be Seven Common Errors?) that engineers may commit when purchasing a CNC cutting machine ...

The latest Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) edged into positive territory in July, following eight months of contraction, ...

The federal government is seeking feedback on the design and implementation of the new Industry Skills Fund, the $476 million programme which will underpin Australia's sustainable ...

The Fair Work Ombudsman has welcomed the findings of a University of Melbourne research project which examined the agency's compliance work.

The Australian Government is putting in place a 'key program' in its overall strategy to create new opportunities for investment and jobs growth in Tasmania.

An alliance of six industry associations released on Sunday (20 July) the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of rapidly escalating gas prices on the Australian economy.

Following weeks of ambivalence, negotiation, and a marathon debate lasting more than 50 hours, Tony Abbott's carbon tax repeal bill finally reached its parliamentary frontier when ...

Three of Australia's leading groups representing businesses in critical sectors of the economy have welcomed the repeal of the carbon tax as the first step in moving towards an ...

To an injured worker, the Workers' Compensation process can seem like a maze which has been intentionally made difficult.