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Made with Circular Thinking

This edition explores how circular thinking, repair, and remanufacturing are transforming manufacturing through innovative design, sustainable materials, and digital technologies that extend product life and reduce waste.

Moving Towards Intelligent Manufacturing

This edition explores how AI is revolutionising manufacturing through predictive maintenance, smart factories, generative design, and quality control, boosting efficiency, precision, and industry competitiveness.

Technology with a Human Touch

This edition explores how advanced manufacturing technologies address societal challenges, including technical support for isolated and deprived regions, medical emergency response, aid in disaster regions and defense innovations.

Design2Manufacture

This edition explores design-driven manufacturing, tackling challenges from concept to production and understanding deviations from sketch to shelf

Circular Manufacturing: Towards Net Zero Production

This edition explores how companies use circular manufacturing to enhance sustainability and extend product lifecycles.

Keep Learning

This edition is dedicated to lifelong learning in the manufacturing industry, shaping tomorrow's experts.

Future of Advanced Manufacturing

This edition delves into challenges, overcomes stagnation, and harnesses innovative technologies for future-forward advanced manufacturing.

Connectivity in the manufacturing industry

This issue of InnovationNU focuses on the pivotal role of connectivity in revolutionising manufacturing, bridging academia and industry, and driving innovation.

The transition towards clean energy

This issue of InnovationNU looks at what and how manufacturers are implementing various methods of power generation from renewable and sustainable sources in order to increase production and reduce dependency on the energy grid.

Power to the People through technology

This issue of InnovationNU is about humanising engineering and the (increasingly important) role humans play in our modern time manufacturing industry, despite the trend of increasing automation and digitalisation.

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Personalised manufacturing

This issue of InnovationNU takes a closer look at these issues and how smart, factory-connected 3D printers can simplify the manufacturing industry.

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Realisation of intelligent production

The possibilities of Artificial Intelligence are endless and application keeps increasing. Discover the different concepts and applications of AI within the manufacturing industry, and why it's so important to adopt it within your processes.