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“ QUOTES ““Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.” – James Dyson, Founder of Dyson “If you need a new process and don’t install it, you pay for it without getting it.” – Ken Stork, president, Association of Manufacturing Excellence. “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano, graphic designer for Oxide Design Co. A dvanced manufacturing is all about creating things that make our lives better – that’s a given – and it all hinges on the right processes. The process determines the quality of the design, the production process and the end result, and there must be enough space within that process to ensure that the design, first and foremost, itself is right. Truly great design is that which is accessible and intuitively usable to all. With this critical piece in place, the ideas and principles that underpin those all important processes manufacturing will ensure quality output.

pointed Director for both of these ARC Hubs. Through our ongoing collaborations with manufacturing and waste recycling indus- tries, we have developed these manufactur- ing and recycling solutions to address some urgent waste and recycling problems while at the same time boosting manufacturing capa- bilities, job creation and environmental ben- efits. There is the potential to start a “green materials” movement whereby we use waste as a renewable resource in manufacturing as a way to supercharge our economies. As we move into a likely period of recession, this could help to lay the foundations for the next recovery or growth period. “Innovations that reform waste – by combining recycling and manufacturing systems, for example – have the power to change the game for Australia.” We now have an incredible opportunity to solve for numerous existential problems at once: collectively, we can address waste and recycling issues, and reduce our carbon foot- print, while also enhancing our manufactur- ing capability. This has the potential to create new supply plans for commercialisation, has the potential to set new benchmarks in inno- vation, efficiency and sustainability for the built environment sector. We need our exist-

ing waste and recycling systems to adopt new processes and technology and to align them- selves with manufacturing. That is, this is to be more of a lateral than a vertical integration or alignment. In the face of our current waste, recycling and manufacturing challenges, do- ing onshore and more sophisticated process- ing of recycling as part of manufacturing can “change the game” for Australia, and for all countries around the world. The goal is to eliminate the word “waste” from our vernac- ular – because waste will become the renewa- ble resource that we know it is. Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an internation- ally recognised materials scientist, engineer and inventor. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the head of the ARC Research Hub for Microrecycling of Battery and Consumer Wastes.

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