Manufacturing

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Business & Economics

These eight tests will help you decide which of your innovation ideas is going to be a winner

Effectively testing new ideas requires a systematic and structured approach from evaluation through to release

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Business & Economics

COVID-19’s ongoing supply chain chaos

As we head into the holidays, COVID-19’s disruption to our supply chains has created shortages, backlogs and global delays – but are we over the worst of it?

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Arts & Culture

When department stores were more than just stores

Australia’s Foy & Gibson department store once dominated Melbourne, with showrooms, factories and warehouses spread over 500,000 square feet, and while it no longer exists, its legacy lives on

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Environment

The future is prefabricated

Commonly used in much of Europe, prefabrication is a more environmentally sustainable and socially beneficial way to build, and it’s taking off in Australia too

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Business & Economics

Ex-auto workers could boost clean energy industry

Australia’s 100-year-old auto manufacturing industry will finally come to an end later this month, but workers’ skills would translate to the storable electricity industry

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Sciences & Technology

How objects could soon ‘heal’ themselves

A new 3D printed gel that can heal like living tissue, and change form in response to environments, has myriad applications from fixing cracked phone screens to adaptive camouflage

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Sciences & Technology

Engineering the perfect Easter egg

Precision timing means cocoa butter melts at just the right temperature

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