Category: Electronics Manufacturing
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Modern Economies Need Manufacturing
Professor Goran Roos As well as being the Thinker in Residence for South Australia, Professor Goran Roos is considered one of the 20 most significant thinkers of the 21st Century. This morning he was presenting his views on Australian Manufacturing to a combined breakfast meeting of the South East Business Network and SEMMA. So…
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Alternative Energy Manufacturing Opportunities in Australia
This post is a summary of an article I wrote for the AMTIL Australian Manufacturing Technology magazine. And here is a picture taken of a Solar Systems concentrated Solar Power Dish. We were involved in software upgrades to the dish controller. It produced 114KWhr of power on an August day at Fosterville, near Bendigo…
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The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture
High End Electronics In the early days Electronics was hand wired on a chassis. Some high end valve amplifiers still do this. But of course this isn’t very compact. For those who didn’t know, I am a guitarist and use a Carvin MTS3212 Master Tube Series tube amplifier which I still enjoy very much.…
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Reducing Electronics Manufacturing Parts Cost
This one is both easy and straight forward to understand. Do as much as possible in software. But it doesn’t stop there. Do as much as possible in software at every stage of the development. Here is how that pans out: replace hardware with software that does the same function verify operation using…