Author: Ray Keefe

  • PACE Zenith Awards 2016

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    PACE Zenith Awards 2016 You might have seen that we are Casey Cardinia Business Awards Finalists for 2016.   Well today we found out that we are also finalists in the PACE Zenith Awards for 2016.   The categories are:   Water & Wastewater Control Power & Energy Management Best PLC, HMI & Sensor Product…

  • Casey Cardinia Business Awards Finalists 2016

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    Casey Cardinia Business Awards This year we entered the Casey Cardinia Business Awards and on the evening of Thursday 14 July the finalists were announced. We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in 2 categories:   Business and Professional Services Award Manufacturer of the Year   Junette and I weren’t able to be there so…

  • Australian Manufacturing is Growing

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    Australian Manufacturing Grows This month we have the interesting statistic that Australian Manufacturing has grown every single month for the past 12 months. That is a whole year of positive growth. Australian Manufacturing Expansion is a good in my opinion. I know we have been led to believe that Australian Manufacturing is gone with the exit…

  • SEBN – South East Business Networks

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    SEBN   One of the key statistics about the Australian business landscape is that we are last in the world for collaboration. All sorts of collaboration.  If you doubt this, just think about how much political collaboration you see here compared to overseas.   The video above is a series of snippets covering why SEBN is…

  • CEDA Australian Manufacturing Symposium 2016

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    CEDA Manufacturing Symposium 2016 The Casey Cardinia Region was a major sponsor of this particular symposium, also know as the Manufacturing and Future Industries Forum,  and so this meeting included some region specific statistics. So here they are:   Casey Cardinia Region is headed for 650,000 people over the next 20 years Manufacturing accounts for more…

  • National Manufacturing Week 2016

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    National Manufacturing Week 2016 This year we are back in Sydney at Sydney Olympic Park for National Manufacturing Week 2016.   And again we are supporting the Casey Cardinia Region. This year we are in stand 2216 which is a lot more central that 2 years ago.     So if you are thinking of…

  • Branding – what’s the big deal?

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    Branding So what is Branding? Well, it is one of the most important concepts in business. Simply put, your Brand encapsulates your promise to your customers. As an engineer who was running an Electronics Design business, I was your typical eMyth technician, or in my case, Engineer. I didn’t understand that there were dimensions to…

  • Predicting the Future

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    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…

  • Software Security

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    Security of Software Systems This post looks at security of software systems in the embedded realm. We are fortunate to have some good recommendations from IEEE on this topic. The first looks at avoiding Software Security Design Flaws. The summary is outlined below:   Earn or give, but never assume, trust. Make sure all data…

  • Drones

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    Drones – a background Drones is hot technology as well as a political and social topic. But we have a lot to work out yet. Other form of transportation have been legislated for a long time and radio remote controlled planes and helicopters too. But Drones opens up a whole new set of issues not yet covered.…