Manufacturing & Industrial Equipment Feature Articles

An electronic cane for the vision impaired that could blitz international competitors on design and price and an insulin pump as slim as a smartphone have taken out top honours in ...

Swinburne University of Technology industrial design graduate Ed Linacre has won the 2011 James Dyson Award, the leading international student design award for his Airdrop irrigation ...

In a first for Australia, the University of New South Wales will offer the majority of its intellectual property to companies for free, in a radical step to turn more university ...

In desert "aircraft graveyards", where retired planes often go when flight service ends, good parts are removed and sold and many materials are recycled.

Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is the process of fusing layers of materials together, and is being talked about as a "game-changer" for manufacturing in the future.

China, the world’s second largest economy, has its own business ethics and doesn’t need western values forced on it, according to a leading international business academic.

AN Austrian and Australian partnership has developed a system that is said to address a billion dollar mining industry challenge.

CEOs have been told to look beyond to the current gloomy economic news, and take intelligently aggressive steps to capitalise on the mega-trends transforming business.

After years of decline, US manufacturing is set to rebound in the next five years, as China gradually loses its competitive advantage.

This safety alert highlights the dangers of manual tree felling and provides information on safer timber harvesting practices.

A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT in the United States allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

While military and search-and-rescue teams have long wished for x-ray vision, the imaging systems work of Professor Abdesselam Bouzerdoum from the University of Wollongong is bringing ...

In today’s tough economic times, many companies are looking to make their business more efficient and save costs, and one place to start is with your packaging.

The resources boom is not costless. What happens when it ends? Australia needs to prepare.

The government says Australia is recreating itself, and building a new economy on a new type of manufacturing. Industry sees it differently.

As the debate around Australia’s skills shortage rumbles on, industry is looking to technology as a way to beat the problem.

Choosing the right tool for a job isn’t always as simple as it seems, but ask yourself the right questions, and it can be.

Innovative Australians are improving the things they make and the way they make them, ensuring a fairer, richer, healthier and greener future.

Flood irrigation is one of the oldest methods of irrigation in the world. The system, though, can be wasteful of water, a problem in a dry country like Australia.

A world record double by UNSW solar cell researchers promises to make solar power more affordable, with world-beating new technology delivering substantial efficiency gains at minimal ...