Australia punches above its weight in terms of global research, producing more than we might expect given our small population. At least … that’s the line we’ve been fed for years – but is it true?

High-profile controversy and set backs have dogged the Joint Strike Fighter program for years. But what’s the core technology, and what is Australia’s role in the development of the F-35 Lightning II?

The sale of wireless spectrum has been very much in the news lately. Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have all confirmed they’ll take part in the auctions. So with this in mind, it might be useful to explain just what “spectrum” is and how it relates to mobile communications.

NFC Wireless, based in Albury, NSW, is catering to early adopters and developers of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, but believes 2013 will be the year of change.

The potential for designing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) with graphical user interfaces (GUI) and SCADA terminals in factories has evolved significantly in the past few years. This potential is being driven by the increasing availability of multi-touch displays suitable for industrial use.

With the continued opportunities afforded by the mining industry in Australia, many electronics manufacturers are engineering products for use in mines. What are some factors to consider when specifying an enclosure?

As the demand for granular and remote control trickles down into the wider world, ultra low power communications is set for a boom as the much touted but little-understood “Internet of Things” starts becoming a reality.

Manufacturers’ Monthly journalist Brent Balinski sat down with Turck Australia’s managing director Cameron Dwyer to discuss the market for industrial electronic products.

Richard Inwood is Tindo Solar’s Manager of Business and People. Tindo Solar is currently the only photovoltaic manufacturer in Australia.

RF instrumentation users will benefit from three trends that shift RF instrumentation to a trajectory that matches Moore’s law: advanced CM OS technology, greater FPGA use, and optimized design with modular form factors.

If we want to achieve our dreams of exploring the solar system, robots will be the means.

Any new technology has to be assessed from a holistic perspective and its adoption is significantly faster when the business model has been fine-tuned to meet changing customer and consumer needs.

For a country that earns the vast majority of its wealth from commodities and natural resources, there is a surprising amount of innovation taking place in Australia and there is a distinctively Australian character to this innovation.

We already know robots manufacture cars, work in factories, even vacuum our homes – but could they form a world-beating soccer team?

Smart meters are not an end in themselves. But they can be a way to develop a more effective “demand side” in the electricity system.

How an established manufacturer in Australia continues to push the limits of what it can do.

How a collapsed company turned around to become a leader in the sound and microphone market, and a leading proponent of manufacturing in Australia.

A fair and reasonable price needs to be struck for electricity fed into the grid from rooftop PV systems.

The interconnect materials used in the coming generations of small-scale electronics will need to be carefully chosen to better match their electronic structures

A research group at Griffith University has found a way to manipulate single-photon quantum states, demonstrating the noiseless amplification of information encoded in a single photon.