Swinburne University

Swinburne University has been awarded the 2019 Australian Business Award (ABA) for Business Innovation for its Industry 4.0 Initiative. The ABA program honours high-performing organisations that implement world-class business initiatives and develop innovative products and services. Swinburne University has been working with industry partners to solve challenges in the transition to Industry 4.0 and create … Continue reading Swinburne University awarded for Industry 4.0 Initiative →

A Swinburne University research team has been focussing its efforts on groundbreaking work on sensors and nanomaterials and their practical use for health and environmental monitoring. The team is led by Dr Shafiei, a Swinburne Vice-Chancellor’s Women in STEM research fellow. These fellowships have been designed designed to address the under-representation of women in science, … Continue reading Swinburne researchers exploring use of nanomaterials in sensors →

Swinburne University of Technology and its industry and research partners have been awarded $1 million of funding through the Global Innovation Linkages Program towards a $3.5 million project focused on Industry 4.0 manufacturing of high volume lightweight composites. The project will use a world-first process for 3D printing of industrial scale composites in Swinburne’s Industry … Continue reading Swinburne gets $1 million in funding for world-first industrial-scale 3D printing process →

Following on from the success of previous delegations, global technology giant Siemens will lead a cross section of business leaders and stakeholders from manufacturing, energy, power and gas, engineering, data analytics, education and cybersecurity sectors to Germany for the world’s largest industrial trade fair – Hannover Messe. The Australian delegation will be joined by members … Continue reading Siemens to lead cross-industry Australian delegation to Hannover Messe →

A collaborative project at Swinburne University has successfully used a robot to 3D-print a replacement lug on an automotive headlamp assembly. The Repairbot project is an industry collaboration with Tradiebot, supported by AMA Group, and backed by the federal government via the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC). An in-house formulated polypropylene composite material, developed … Continue reading Collaborative project enables robotic 3D-printing of automotive parts →

A new global Blockchain Centre of Excellence has been launched by Swinburne University of Technology in partnership with the French-based digital technology consulting company Capgemini. The centre will focus on advancing blockchain technologies, platforms, assets and systems to develop industry understanding and implementation of blockchain technologies. Swinburne’s multi-disciplinary team will collaborate with Capgemini’s network of … Continue reading Swinburne launches new blockchain research centre with Capgemini →

A partnership has been formed between Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC), Swinburne University of Technology and Sleep Corp to boost advanced manufacturing in Australia. The partnership is to analyse Sleep Corp’s business and see what improvements can be made as they move towards Industry 4.0, with a view to move to fully automated manufacturing. … Continue reading Industry 4.0 partnership formed between Swinburne, IMCRC and Sleep Corp →

Swinburne University’s Nishar Hameed has received a Young Tall Poppy award for his research focusing on advanced composite materials – incorporating carbon fibres – and their potential in developing stronger, lighter and smarter automotive and aerospace structures. Hameed, from Swinburne’s Manufacturing Futures Research Institute, is developing techniques and methods that allow the rapid manufacturing of … Continue reading Swinburne researcher wins award for study on advanced composite materials →

An advanced manufacturing Industry 4.0 hub will be established at Swinburne University. The hub is funded by a $2 million grant from the Victorian government’s Future Industries Fund and will pioneer a new model of university-industry collaboration where businesses and universities not only co-create technology but also business strategy. It will work with local manufacturers to … Continue reading Swinburne University gets advanced manufacturing Industry 4.0 hub →

As exploding batteries in mobile phones, computers and headphones continue to make headlines, researchers at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries.