Title :
Manufacturing in Australia: A historical perspective
Author :
Hasan, Maruf ; Chung, William TW
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. & Manuf. Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
The Australian manufacturing industry has been established for over two hundred years. In these two hundred years, manufacturing has grown from a small manufacturing industry that only satisfies the basic necessities of the colonial settlement; into a largely elaborate manufacturing industry wherein some subsectors Australia is a forerunner in the world. In this paper, historic and current issues that concern Australian manufacturing as a whole are investigated and recommendations are made to assist the manufacturing sector to be globally competitive and sustainable in the future.
Keywords :
history; manufacturing industries; Australian manufacturing industry; colonial settlement; elaborate manufacturing industry; manufacturing sector; small-manufacturing industry; Australia; Employment; Government; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industries; Mining industry; growth; history; industry; manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Business Innovation and Technology Management (APBITM), 2011 IEEE International Summer Conference of Asia Pacific
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9654-9
DOI :
10.1109/APBITM.2011.5996313
