With market uncertainty and demands creating significant challenges for Australian manufacturers, manufacturers will gather at an IoT Insights event in Clayton Melbourne next week to hear how data enabled manufacturing can help. 

The October 20 event at 3.45pm at Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions (BAMS) in Clayton, Victoria, is part of IoT Alliance Australia’s Insights series, and promises to bring attendees up to speed on data-enabled manufacturing and bring them “inside a world” of automation and digitalisation.

Bosch Oceania National Sales and Business Development Manager Bradley Trewin will speak about AIoT for machine control, how data enables manufacturing in COVID world, supply chain issues and impact, virtual simulation and commissioning and digital twins.

Attendees will hear about IoT applications by Bosch clients, such as Melbourne-based BODD, which manufactures and commercialisation of advanced 3D body scanners, and MMAPT, which robotically captures low-cost, high-resolution, standardised imaging for online product catalogues.

Jason Coonan, Director, Advanced Manufacturing at Breakthrough Victoria, which will invest $2 billion over the next 10 years in key sectors, will explain how breakthroughs in advanced manufacturing don’t just happen, but result from sustainable, long-term investments.

A panel discussion about data handling in manufacturing will feature Trewin, Coonan, IoTAA Manufacturing Workstream Chair Darren Hungerford, and Peter Torreele, Managing Director of sustainable timber technology company 3RT. Guests will also hear from Bosch Oceania President Gavin Smith and IoT Alliance Australia CEO Frank Zeichner.

The event also includes a tour of one of the largest factory automation solution providers in Australia and New Zealand. The walkthrough of the BAMS factory will provide an opportunity to look at automation solutions in varying design and build stages, and meet some of the engineers who help design and build the systems.

Guests will also be able to tour a diode manufacturing plant, learning about the history of the plant and its journey towards digital transformation, and about volumes of supply and production and export demand for power diodes.

In 2021, Bosch opened the $17 million Manufacturing Automation Centre which houses Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions (BAMS) and the Rexroth Drives and Controls businesses, which offers industry 4.0 solutions.

BAMS works with a range of blue-chip, mid-tier and start-up companies to automate their manufacturing, including building and installing automated assembly lines to increase production capacity for rapid COVID-19 tests for Ellume. BAMS’ key markets also include medtech, food and beverage, and electronics manufacturing.

Get tickets to the October 20 Data Enabled Manufacturing event.