DMTC will be presenting a 4 part briefing series to better inform the Defence community on the outcomes and objectives of the DMTC program, including technical achievements and enhancements to Australian industry capability.

The briefings are open to all, however will be targeted towards CDG and DMO representatives. Discussion and questions after each briefing will be encouraged.

For further information, please contact information@dmtc.com.au.

Briefing 1: Capability through Collaboration: An introduction to DMTC

Date: 24 February 2012

Location: Canberra

Presenter(s): Dr Mark Hodge, CEO

Seminar Details:

• Understanding the benefits of the DMTC business model; -
• Air, Land and Sea domain Program briefings;
• Planned activities and opportunities for engagement.

Briefing 2: The DMTC Air Platforms Program: A Sustainability Focus

Date: May, tbc

Location: Canberra

Presenter(s): Dr Mark Hodge – CEO, Dr Suresh Palanisamy – Air Platforms Program Leader, Dr Matt Dargusch, Technology Manager.

Seminar Details: A detailed technical and program briefing on DMTC’s Air Platforms Program.

Briefing 3: The DMTC Maritime Platforms Program: Achievements and Opportunities

Date: August, tbc

Location: Canberra Presenter(s): Dr Mark Hodge – CEO, Dr Stephen van Duin – Maritime Platforms Program Leader, Jim Arthur – Commercialisation and Security Manager.

Seminar Details: A detailed technical and program briefing on DMTC’s Maritime Platforms Program. DMTC’s IP and commercialisation model will also be discussed.

Briefing 4: DMTC Land Programs: Armour technologies for Land vehicles, New Concepts in Personnel Survivability

Date: November, tbc

Locations: Melbourne and Canberra.

Presenter(s): James Sandlin – Armour Applications Program Leader, Deepak Ganga – Personnel Survivability Program Leader.

Seminar Details: A detailed technical and program briefing on DMTC’s Land Programs.

DMTC is supporting a workshop on Virtual Welding on 24th and 25th November at the University of Wollongong.  This is a hands on workshop which looks at the use of advanced virtual prototyping to provide and enhanced understanding of the welding process of metals and their behaviour during that process.  The software tools VISUAL and SYSWELD from ESI Group will be used within the course.

This workshop will be conducted by lecturer Dr Lex Mulcahy from Pacific ESI.  Dr Mulcahy is a long time user of virtual prototyping and is involved in several DMTC projects, as well as several CRC-ACS projects, and one ARC project with UNSW.

Please contact Damian McGuckin on 02 8571 0847 for further details.

AusAMRC in partnership with the DMTC is offering a series of free of charge robot training workshops for industry, utilising the newly established robot facility at Swinburne University of Technology.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Australian Industry Capability (OAIC) at Boeing and the Defence Material Organisation (DMO), training programs are scheduled to take place on:

September 21st–23rd – Automated Inspection & Reverse Engineering via Robotics

October 26th–28th – Automated Feature & Part Picking, Inspection & Reverse Engineering via Robotics

For further information, and to register for either of these workshops, please visit swinburne.edu.au/engineering/ausamrc/robot/

Robot Training Workshop Flyer

DMTC is delighted to be joining forces with RMIT University in organising the 1st Pacific Additive Manufacturing Forum being held across Australia in June.

Additive Manufacturing, also referred to as 3D printing, is now playing an ever increasing role in a range of industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical and defence because of the many benefits it offers compared to traditional subtractive technologies.

The 1st PAMF forum aims to bring together industry professionals, engineers, researchers and equipment and material suppliers to hear the latest developments and trends in Additive Manufacturing technology from international speakers and local industry players.

PAMF will be in Melbourne on 7 June, Adelaide on 9 June, Sydney on 14 June and Brisbane on 15 June.

For further information and registration please visit www.pamf.org.au

Dr Paul Colegrove of Cranfield University in the UK will present a seminar on Additive Manufacturing today at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales.

Additive manufacture (also referred to as Rapid Prototyping, Near Net and Direct Manufacturing) is a technique for converting CAD data into a solid three dimensional object.

The Welding Research Group at Cranfield University pioneered a version of this technique using offline programming and robotic weld metal deposition in the early 1990s.

Its feasibility was established for the manufacture of complex components for aero engines in high temperature nickel alloys.

Considerable interest is currently being shown in the use of similar techniques as an alternative to forging and extensive machining for the fabrication of titanium alloy parts for aircraft.

Dr Colegrove will describe the activities in this area and the current status of the research at Cranfield.

Dr Paul Colegrove’s main research interest is welding and the modelling of welding processes.

Beginning as lecturer in Welding Engineering at Cranfield University with a focus on projects on Stress Engineering, Friction Stir, Laser and Arc Welding, he is now the course director of the Welding Engineering MSc course.