NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
Australian manufacturing
Library
Technological diffusion in Australian Industry, by Chris Martin. (14 page PDF file)
A Guide to Introducing Concurrent Engineering in your Organisation, by Saadia Carapiet of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research (28 page PDF file)
Competitive industry - a decade of manufacturing growth - a Price Waterhouse Coopers report from April 2002 (PDF file, 14 pages).
Australian Industry Group (AiG)/Commonwealth Bank: Industry
in the Regions 2001
Australian Business/Commonwealth Bank Survey of Manufacturing conditions in
NSW (June 2001)
August 2001: A report from the Western Australian Department of Industry and Technology examines trends in manufacturing in that state. Manufacturing accounted for 9% of total income in WA in 1999-2000, and employed 8% of the state's labour force. Manufacturing makes up 17% of the state's exports.
February 2002: Environmental Scanning in the Australian Manufacturing Sector paper by Howard Harris and Chris Martin.
Management Performance in Manufacturing Business. A report by Dr Zeljka Sporer, commissioned by Smartlink from the Centre for Applied Economics at the University South Australia. This report is based on a survey of manufacturing businesses, in the automotive sector, and is the first in a planned series. The study assessed the performance of managers in five major business areas.