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Navigating the future

Manufacturer's Monthly

In 2008, Xavier Orr was digging deep into the world of neural networks in his final year of artificial intelligence studies at the University of Western Australia. Today, the Australian-based company is making moves in the futuristic worlds of self-driving cars, aerial drones, space launch vehicles and robotics.

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Prima Power Helps Your Shop Evolve by Integration

Fabricating & Metal Work

When Finn Power and Prima Industrie joined forces in 2008 to create Prima Power, the companies combined a massive amount of knowledge to serve the global sheet metal fabrication industry. Prima Industrie Corporate Headquarters in Torino, Italy home to the new state-of-the-art 2D and 3D Laser Factory. The future is bright, Plass said.

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Leading the way in automated monitoring with Kurloo Technology

Manufacturer's Monthly

Years into his career in measurement science as a consulting surveyor, the co- founder and CEO of Kurloo Technology, Lee Hellen, began his first commercial business in 2008. Three years later, Hellen’s team worked on the South Point project in Brisbane, with very heavily constrained tunnels and heritage buildings to deal with.

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Power and Innovation for the Canadian Surface Combatant

MEM

A proven engine, designed for the 21st century, it has been in active operation since 2008. As a multi-functional system, the mission bay can easily be adapted to support operational requirements such as temporary housing for humanitarian missions and storage of medical supplies.

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J.L. Leclerc & Fils and Portes and Fenêtres Abritek receive federal funding

Canadian Manufacturing

Since 2008, the vice‑presidency of this family‑run SME has been assumed by Julie Leclerc. Thanks to the $1M repayable contribution from CED, the business will be able to acquire and commission a digital machining centre and robotic production equipment, including three welding cells, a laser cutter, and a folding press.

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Lifetime Achievement Award: Mark Dolsen’s legacy of problem-solving and automation excellence

Automation Mag

Dolsen recalls how in the 1980s there was a fascination with robots and automated guided vehicles. In the early days, a lot of robots were installed even when it may not have made any sense to add one,” he explains. The push, he says, was towards substituting direct labour with automation. “A

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Movers & Shakers – Edwin Olson, Co-founder & CEO, May Mobility, Inc.

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

We see the key components of a scalable and profitable autonomous vehicle business– regulatory, technology, and supply chain– coming together around the end of 2023. By which year do you think we will see the inflection point when all the external moving parts (regulation, technology, cost) fall into place?

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