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In an earlier article we discussed whether your next manufacturing employee should be a robot.

Reforms to Australia's anti-dumping system effective from 2 November 2015 will level the playing field for Australian manufacturers and producers.

Okay, you've got all those fancy vehicles out there racing around the countryside doing deliveries and carrying reps from sale to sale.

Wind power is now as cheap as natural gas and coal, according to the latest global analysis.

Well, you could start by asking one of the most successful businesspeople in the world today, Richard Branson. He believes that far too many businesses aren't prepared to take ...

Will it work? Won't it work? Until recently these were the rather unhelpful questions businesses building robotic process automation (RPA) were asking themselves. Now, thankfully, ...

"Well, they looked good on paper." If you've ever said that about a recruitment misjudgement you're far from alone. Resumes are designed to make candidates look good; they're ...

Ministers Anthony Roberts and Mark Speakman, along with Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast, Gareth Ward, celebrated the success of Australia's largest single ...

Universities Australia is calling on the Government to immediately dump the proposed 20 per cent cut to university funding and reverse the decline in public investment in research ...

Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane and Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull have announced the merging of CSIRO's Digital Productivity flagship and NICTA, which ...

The connotations of the word 'perk' seem to be as negative as they are positive these days. Yet there are genuine company perks that can make a big difference to staff morale, ...

In a major submission to the Inquiry into Portability of Long Service Leave Entitlements for Victorian Workers, the Australian Industry Group has demonstrated that a portable long ...

If all our customers had the sort of loyalty a dog has for his master we'd have nothing to worry about. Unfortunately customer loyalty is as fickle as fashion and as reliable as the ...

Queensland's multi-billion dollar mining industry has done away with resource permit paperwork thanks to the state's world-leading online permit system.

Excellence is a great word. It's a word worth using in every aspect of your business and something you should strive for in everything you do. That includes all aspects of maintenance. ...

A computer error has resulted in 25 factory workers at Nambucca Heads on the NSW North Coast being short-changed their leave entitlements for eight years.

Wind and solar power is most definitely on the rise, with it currently comprising 22 per cent of generated electric energy. And with the introduction of Tesla’s Powerwall by renewable ...

South Australian businesses will invest in the state's advanced manufacturing future, with $28.8 million of Government investment under the South Australian round of the Next Generation ...

Safe Work Australia has published four new research reports to help inform the development of Australian work health and safety policy and practice.

Podcasts aren't exactly new, but only recently have they started to be taken seriously as a medium. For years they were the online equivalent of amateur radio whereby a few profoundly ...