Last chance to check out the massive AMW2023 show at MCEC.
The Future Solutions Speaker Sessions have been such a success here at AMW2023, really. Every seat in each session has been filled. On Tuesday the theme was Additive Manufacturing. Wednesday focused on Women in Manufacturing, then yesterday was Australian Manufacturing. Today we looked into the Future of manufacturing here in Australia.
Of particular interest, and one following up for further information was the Breakthrough Victoria, Jason Coonan, the Director – Advanced Manufacturing, who summarised current trends relevant to investment in nanomanufacturing, quantum, and other ground-breaking areas.
And still, each zone and pavilion around the halls roared with activity. All the way down to Peddinghaus with their massive rotating, welding carriage for long product steel girders, one of the largest on the planet, brought in from the USA for the show; to the nano-projects undertaken by the small crew at Microscopy, the attractions were enthralling, sometimes randomly scattered. Maybe that’s why it takes people so long to get around this huge space.
Another positive for the last day of an industrial show of this size is that so many of these massive machines have been sold, straight off the floor. So many sales managers and CEOs were happily saying the week’s results were ‘in the black.’
Grahame Aston, Managing Director at PPC Moulding Services, showed me his newly purchased silicon 3D printer, the innovatiQ. Programmable to spit out any form of modern gasket, sphere, pad, or sheet, all in this clean playable medium, he was clearly very excited about it. Especially transported here for the show, it is the only machine of its kind in the country. This is repeated around the show. So many of the latest kit is on display.
At the Autodesk stand, I met a fellow who had made his own custom refractor telescope after creating the model in Autodesk’s Fusion software. Diego A. Colonnello had fed his models to a local CNC company, and imported some of the required electrical equipment and motor components but everything else, was his to create, refine and construct. It was a sight to behold.
As the time to close approached, a lot of the stand crews were happy to go, but the crowds actually kept arriving. But by 4pm, AMW2023 officially came to a close and everyone jumped into their high viz for the ‘bump-out’. Another show, our biggest ever show, is over for another year.
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