Manufacturing & Industrial Equipment Feature Articles

There's a lot of talk about putting a price on carbon, but also a lot of confusion about how it's supposed to change anything.

Some industries hate it, others love it, but at least the details of carbon pricing are out now.

Maintenance must be more than an afterthought, particularly when it comes to your industrial water system.

There will be an average of at least one connectable device for every person on the planet by the end of the decade, claims a new report.

Although European countries have been quick to pick up wind power, Australia is a relative newcomer to the concept.

Despite a tough decade, manufacturing in Australia still has a promising future if it focuses on getting closer to the customer and improving the value proposition, says Kathy Rankin ...

Australian Industry Group members say lack of trained staff will present a "high risk factor" in the next five years.

Oscilloscope sales stagnate but there are bright spots for instruments that offer innovation and customisation.

Accidents involving gas can not only cost workers their lives, it can also cost companies thousands of dollars in fines and penalties.

Access to a portfolio of cost-competitive CSIRO casting technologies was crucial to Nissan Casting Australia’s (NCAP’s) recent successful bid to manufacture components for the Nissan ...

With petrol prices recently hitting $1.60 per litre in some parts of Australia, the days of sub $1.00 per litre petrol appear long gone.

Electricity costs have steadily risen over the past five years, with prices expected to increase dramatically in the near future.

Assembly Technologies provides advise on the ins and outs of selecting and using pneumatic air motors.

Mechanical engineering encompasses a broad church, from the design of air-conditioning systems and their installation to automotive materials handling and machinery design, but ...

Relatively harmless microbes which pass through water treatment systems could be allowing dangerous bacteria, such as Legionella, to reproduce in drinking water supplies, researchers ...

Pat Boland was appointed president of the Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Limited (AMTIL) in January this year. Boland is a founding partner of the ANCA machine tool ...

The question lingering over the latest bout of weak economic figures is whether they have been depressed temporarily by adverse weather or reveal a longer-lasting economic malaise.

It might sound wildly futuristic but producing plastic from plants is already an established industry and while it’s at present a niche sector, the short-term growth prospects are ...

This week heralds a new era in dairy farming with the revelation of the robotic rotary, a world first, developed by DeLaval in collaboration with the University of Sydney and ...

Magnattack Global has recently completed a major project for a large Sydney based cereal manufacturer, involving 7 Large MAGNATTACK™ self cleaning grate magnet systems.