@AuManufacturing Conversations

Send us Fan Mail In episode 36 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from John Lake and Rob Fisher, the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder/CEO, respectively, of Bodd Technologies. We take a look at a startup that seems on the cusp of great commercial success, and which is at the same time hard to categorise. Are they a manufacturer? An SaaS business? A data analytics co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Andy Brawley,  former General Manager - Manufacturing at Silanna Semiconductor. An item from the final day of our Australia's place in the semiconductor world series, this broad-ranging conversation is with a man who has spent over half a century in the industry. Brawley shares his passion for...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , Dr Mohammad Choucair from Archer Materials shares the company’s progress on its quantum processor (it is also developing a biosensor), where he believes the nation can make a difference in the semiconductor value chain, what it would take to establish local chip fabrication, and more. Relevant links Archer&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , David Chuter from the IMCRC shares some reflections on which collaborations work and why, the need for technology adoption and development to have a clear purpose behind it, the importance of design and engineering to the industry’s success, and more. This episode was recorded at the IMCRC’s Australian Manufac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations With Brent Balinski,  we hear from Lumination Head of Enterprise and Government Tom Pennington. Pennington, who joined the fast-growing Adelaide-based immersive technology company this year, tells us about how he expects “the metaverse” to change the way we learn, how it can supplement older methods of absorbing new information, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski – recorded at the IMCRC’s Innovative Manufacturing Accelerated conference a couple of weeks ago – Paul Keen of gTET tells us about the founding of his company by ex-automotive industry engineers, a project to reshore components in its heat pumps, and some of the benefits and challenges of adopting heat waste and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Thomas Romeijn from Mineral Technologies and Dr Michael Behrens from UTS Rapido about their project applying 3D printing to separation spirals used in the mining industry.  Episode guide 0:20 – Introduction to guests. 1:40 – Why is this next step necessary?  2:56 – The possible benefits around saf...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations With Brent Balinski , we hear from Dr Ian Fordyce, Additive Manufacturing Engineer at Conflux Technology, and Dr Balaji Narayanaswamy, an Associate Research Fellow at Deakin. The pair discuss a recently-completed, nine-month Conflux-Deakin project, supported by a $138,200 Innovative Manufacturing CRC grant, and covering aluminium a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Lee Stanley, Business Development Manager at systems integrator Daronmont Technologies. 0:20 – Career path and introduction to Daronmont and its work. 2:50 – Overview of some projects, including as tier one subcontractor to BAE on Jorn Phase 6.  4:30 – The Jorn upgrade and their role in it, building...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Shoaib Iqbal from earth observation startup Esper Satellite Imagery. Iqbal tells us about the company's story so far, the usefulness of hyperspectral data, why 18 satellites is the number they’re aiming to have in orbit, and more. Episode guide 0:28 – What they do and how they got started: bu...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 26 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Christopher Janssen, Managing Director at GPC Electronics.   Defence makes up about 10 to 15 per cent of turnover at GPC, the western Sydney contract electronics manufacturer run by Christopher Janssen, who describes it as “a tough but rewarding sector” and one offering good growth potential. “It is...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 25 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Steve Camilleri, CTO and co-founder of SPEE3D. The episode was recorded at Land Forces 2022 last week. Camilleri discusses the company's newly-launched expeditionary printer, XSPEE3D, the company's accidental presence in the defence market, and much else. Episode guide 0:30 -- The company&...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 24 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Dr Martin O’Connor, General Manager at QuantX Labs. The episode was recorded at Land Forces 2022 last week. O’Connor explains the usefulness of the company’s device in JORN (currently undergoing its $1.2 billion Phase 6 upgrade led by BAE Systems Australia) shares some thoughts on what it takes for...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 23 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Dominic Parsonson, Head of Sales at Titomic. The episode was recorded at Land Forces 2022 last week. In it, Parsonson tells us about how two Australian companies have taken a technology that has been around since the 1980s, and moved it from coatings and repair into manufacturing. As we speak during...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 22 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Daen Simmat, founder and CEO at Black Lab Design. The episode was recorded during a visit to Black Lab's factory in Frenchs Forest in late-September. In this broad-ranging chat, Simmat tells us about starting a company in 2013, its natural evolution from sheet metal solutions to much more, his...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 21 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Philip Crealy, founder and Director at Equinox Medical. The episode was recorded on the second day of last week’s Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of. Crealy presented on the topic of “Custom medical device manufacture through machine learning and generative desig...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 20 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from David Fox, Associate Director, Research & Technology at Western Parkland City Authority. The episode was recorded on the second day of last week’s Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of.    Fox has worked in manufacturing for over 30 years, and was at western Sydne...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 19 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Dr Marc Carmichael, a Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator at the Australian Cobotics Centre. The episode was recorded on the second day of the Modern Manufacturing Expo, which @AuManufacturing is a media partner of.    Carmichael’s work focusses on collaborative r...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 18 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski   we hear from Peter Mackey, Executive Director, New Education and Training Model (NETM) at the NSW government’s Western Parkland City Authority. This micro-episode is about micro-credentials, with Mackey giving an update on the NETM pilot program, which intends to develop 100 micro-credential courses between 2021...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 17 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Steve Layton from Layton Corporation. The chat was recorded at last Friday’s Good Design Awards. EmTech, a division of Layton’s company, was a Gold Winner at the awards for its Enviro Hide product, which is made from recycled leather and has a look and feel of new split leather. Layton tells us about...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 16 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Mark Chilcote, Managing Director of Energy Renaissance.  ER was founded in 2015, is currently running a pilot plant at Tomago, and is preparing to begin volume production of lithium ion batteries by the end of the year.   This interview comes during a week where industry minister Ed Husic and Tesla...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 15 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we speak to Associate Professor Cori Stewart, CEO of the Brisbane-based Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub. Stewart is founder of the not-for-profit, which aims to accelerating the uptake of robotics and AI in manufacturing and other industries within Australia.  It officially launched in March 2020 and rec...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 14 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Dr William Crowe and Dr Hiranya Jayakody from HEO Robotics. The pair began HEO while they were PhD candidates at UNSW Sydney, initially with a focus on asteroid mining. Today they are pursuing a beautifully simple goal: image anything within the Solar System on demand, and last month they launched t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski we hear from Arden Jarrett,  Business Development Officer at MGA Thermal. MGA's name comes from "miscibility gap alloy", an approach to thermal energy storage developed over a decade by a team at University of Newcastle and which it is currently commercialising. In late-June the company launched t...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 12 of @AuManufacturing Conversations with Brent Balinski , we hear from Phil West, co-founder of Siren Cameras. Phil comes from a family of fishers and moved to Australia from Scotland a decade ago. A few years back he was out bluewater fishing, caught nothing all day, then found himself in a 15-minute battle with what must have been a splendid fish before he lost it. T...