Author: Ray Keefe

  • Australian Manufacturing is Growing

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    Australian Manufacturing PMI It is official. For the past three months Australian Manufacturing has grown each month. This has been confirmed by both AMTIL and Manufacturers’ Monthly.   This is in spite of weak demand in the metals sector. It is good to see some resilience showing as the manufacturing sectors diversify.   The primary…

  • IoT versus M2M

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    IoT versus M2M M2M or Machine to Machine communications have been around for a long time. So how is the IoT or the Internet of Things different?   The picture below shows that basic paradigm shift between the two concepts.   The easiest way to think about this is that Machine to Machine communications is a…

  • IoT and EMI

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    EMI could threaten IoT Growth EMI or Electromagnetic Interference, is one side effect of all the new electronics devices coming onto the market every day. Each of them creates a little bit of radio frequency noise which can interfere with other devices around them. And all this noise is one potential threat to growth of…

  • The Internet Of Things drives economic growth

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    IoT Electronics The Internet of things, or IoT, is driving semiconductor manufacturing at a faster rate than any previous technological revolution. Just last year the 2020 IoT Economy was estimated at $1T. This year, it has doubled to $2T. Here are some facts I’ve gathered about this industry.   2014 – $180B in revenue Today…

  • 3D Printing for Electronics

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    3D Printing 3D Printing has been a big topic for some time. It works in a number of different ways and you can print in metals, plastic or paper. For this post, I will focus on FDM or Fused Deposition Modelling. It is also a method within the general area of Additive Manufacturing.   We…