Best practice in manufacturing principles Starting in manufacturing when I was 16, I spent my holidays working in a repetition engineering factory operating milling machines and lathes making production parts to pay for my schooling to become a mechanical engineer. Now, 33 years later, I have worked in all areas of manufacturing from concept to […]
Well known entrepreneurial engineer and member of the Vernier Society, Peter Farley, gave a fascinating presentation to the Society at the August meeting on “Australia’s energy policy”. Peter’s presentation was packed with facts, figures and analysis that demonstrated his great research knowledge on a subject that he obviously feels passionate about but also the […]
“TO FIGHT FOR AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING” The Society’s guest speaker was Albert Goller the Chairman of META. Albert was the Chairman and Managing Director of Siemens Ltd in Australia and New Zealand from 2002 to 2012 but now leads META, a federally funded organisation whose aim is to combine manufacturing businesses through collaborative projects to create […]
How to change a company! The Vernier Society speaker for May was Alan Evans who is the owner of Dyno Dynamics, based in Lilydale Victoria; Dyno Dynamics is Australia’s leading manufacturer of chassis and engine dynamometers distributing their premier products worldwide. After originally training as an engineer Alan, after realising deskbound engineering was not for […]
Goran Roos provides much food for thought! Vernier’s special April meeting at Kooyong Tennis Centre lived up to expectation with guests outnumbering members to listen to an enthralling talk by Professor Goran Roos, who was recently named one of the 13 most influential people in Australia. Some of the many insights given by Goran were: […]
“Innovation and staying close to the customer is the key to success” was said in a presentation, worthy of the red carpet, given by Tim Modra, founder of Modra Technology; an export driven company that makes flexible, small scale carpet making machinery for designers and product development around the world.” Coming all the way from […]
Is there a real appreciation of how vital a “Make Things’ manufacturing industry is to Australia’s future prosperity? The current thinking that we should leave the car industry devoid of support is only part of the issue. As Futuris MD Mark De Wit quite correctly reported to the Productivity Commission “When the tide of the […]
With all the proceeds of the day going to charity, the last Vernier meeting for 2013, saw a reasonably full house of members, new guests and old friends as the Society stepped away from its regular format with a special theme of “Charity and Fun at Christmas”. Christmas is a special time of year for […]
“Attendees to the Society’s November meeting were privileged to listen to Melbourne University’s Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac who gave his views on the background and current perspectives of the Industrial Relations landscape in Australia today. Despite his octogenarian years, Professor Isaac still demonstrated a keen and insightful intellect that has obviously underpinned his long and […]
Our October speaker, Rolf Glenk from Holden has over 25 years experience in the automotive industry with Nissan, Bosch, Tickford, Delphi and now GM for the last 10 years. Rolf offered a passionate overview of the complexity of the modern automotive. Based at GM’s Testing Grounds in Lang Lang approximately 90km south east of Melbourne, […]
Ronson Gears was founded in 1954 by Gordon’s father Ron New, a past member of Vernier. Gordon a qualified mechanical engineer joined the family business in the mid 70’s along with his brother Terry who now between them still run this family business. Ronson now employs around 31 people over two shifts, in the high […]
Editorial Thank Goodness it is over with; no more of those tedious and destructive adverts for political parties in a campaign that must be looked back upon in time as the lowest point in Australian politics.