Author: Ray Keefe

  • Casey Cardinia Business Awards Finalists 2016

    Casey Cardinia Business Awards This year we entered the Casey Cardinia Business Awards and on the evening of Thursday 14 July the finalists were announced. We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in 2 categories:   Business and Professional Services Award Manufacturer of the Year   Junette and I…

  • Australian Manufacturing is Growing

    Australian Manufacturing Grows This month we have the interesting statistic that Australian Manufacturing has grown every single month for the past 12 months. That is a whole year of positive growth. Australian Manufacturing Expansion is a good in my opinion. I know we have been led to believe that Australian Manufacturing…

  • SEBN – South East Business Networks

    SEBN   One of the key statistics about the Australian business landscape is that we are last in the world for collaboration. All sorts of collaboration.  If you doubt this, just think about how much political collaboration you see here compared to overseas.   The video above is a series of…

  • CEDA Australian Manufacturing Symposium 2016

    CEDA Manufacturing Symposium 2016 The Casey Cardinia Region was a major sponsor of this particular symposium, also know as the Manufacturing and Future Industries Forum,  and so this meeting included some region specific statistics. So here they are:   Casey Cardinia Region is headed for 650,000 people over the next 20…

  • National Manufacturing Week 2016

    National Manufacturing Week 2016 This year we are back in Sydney at Sydney Olympic Park for National Manufacturing Week 2016.   And again we are supporting the Casey Cardinia Region. This year we are in stand 2216 which is a lot more central that 2 years ago.     So…

  • Branding – what’s the big deal?

    Branding So what is Branding? Well, it is one of the most important concepts in business. Simply put, your Brand encapsulates your promise to your customers. As an engineer who was running an Electronics Design business, I was your typical eMyth technician, or in my case, Engineer. I didn’t understand…

  • Predicting the Future

    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the…

  • Software Security

    Security of Software Systems This post looks at security of software systems in the embedded realm. We are fortunate to have some good recommendations from IEEE on this topic. The first looks at avoiding Software Security Design Flaws. The summary is outlined below:   Earn or give, but never assume,…

  • Drones

    Drones – a background Drones is hot technology as well as a political and social topic. But we have a lot to work out yet. Other form of transportation have been legislated for a long time and radio remote controlled planes and helicopters too. But Drones opens up a whole new set…

  • Supercapacitors Improve

    Supercapacitors Supercapacitors are based on regular capacitors with very high energy storage and which can transfer that energy very rapidly. This means you can get rapid energy delivery and also rapid charging. This makes them the ideal complement to batteries which can store much larger amounts of energy but which…