Metalworking & Machining Feature Articles

Carbon pricing is essentially about ensuring the economy can grow without emissions growing at the same time.

On the face of it, the outlook is upbeat. An employment graph heading in the right direction. GDP profit up. The Australian dollar reaching for parity with its US counterpart - that ...

The search is on again for the nation’s greatest ideas – in fields from environmental science to education – through the $70,000 The Australian Innovation Challenge awards.

The Australian aluminium industry is in the doldrums. A high dollar, low prices and Asian competition are threatening the industry, with older plants in New South Wales and Victoria ...

Two Queensland University of Technology (QUT) industrial design lecturers and entrepreneurs have designed and built a number of motorcycles so refined they have attracted the interest ...

US Energy Department Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CSIRO to explore ways to improve efficiency for powders used ...

An international research breakthrough with bees means machines might soon be able to see almost as well as humans.

"There is no such thing as a good idea." It may seem an unorthodox message coming from the head of one of Australia’s most successful technology transfer offices (TTO) but Anthony ...

A high-tech, precision, water jet milling control system which could transform the manufacture of complex structures is being developed by a team of engineers led by The University ...

New algorithms could enable heaps of 'smart sand' that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.

Innovation capability is the key to Australia's future success in manufacturing and other sectors, according to Professor Roy Green, Dean of the UTS Business School and Andrew Liveris, ...

The sector is much healthier, but heavyweight vendor dominance restricts opportunities for smaller companies.

There may be no belching smoke stacks to be seen, but every time we thoughtlessly put up a poorly designed structure or resort to energy-intensive solutions to cool, heat, and operate ...

Asia's boom economies, led by China and India, must overcome a series of complex challenges to guarantee the region's long-term prosperity, according to Asian Development Bank ...

Victoria University scientists have shown the viability of a new desalination technology that uses almost no electricity and has the potential to save huge amounts of water.

Writing in The Conversation, Swinburne Professor of Engineering Mathematics Geoff Brooks claims the metallurgical industry is under real threat, not from angry environmentalists, ...

Motorists of the future can look forward to safer vehicles which leave a smaller carbon footprint thanks to pioneering research being carried out in UOW’s Faculty of Engineering.

Wear and tear on moving machinery parts requires regular maintenance and comes at a considerable cost. However new US research is taking lessons from one of nature's born survivors ...

Carmakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist from the US explains ...

Working fathers with new babies experience cumulative fatigue which may pose a risk in the workplace, according to new research from Southern Cross University.