Manufacturing Competitiveness – Imperatives for Australia's Manufacturing FutureZoran Angelkovski

30 May 2014

Manufacturing Competitiveness – Imperatives for Australia's Manufacturing Future

Zoran AngelkovskiManaging Director, META

30 May 2014

The future of Advanced Manufacturing

“Be part of the solution”

“Continue to describe the problem”

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What is META?

META is a collaborative network of high potential manufacturing businesses and researchers aiming to advance Manufacturing.

Through the promotion of leadership and continuous learning, META members will accelerate growth and increase the efficiency and competitiveness of Australia’s manufacturing industry globally.

There is no level playing field

Its truly a global game

Single companies vs. collaboration networks

Globalisation: Challenges of Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing value chain

Mass customisation, sustainability, speed

Suppliers Research Development Manufacturing Sales, Marketing & Support Customers

Advanced manufacturing is the provision of technology, processes and skills along the whole value chain, including key customers as well as key suppliers, to continuously improve products and surrounding services in a reliable and sustainable way, better than any global competitor.

Mass customisation – responding to the customer

Customising turntable technology to apply to a hotel..

Or to the mining industry..

Sustainability drives commercial success

What value do you place on eggs produced here…

Or here…

Speed to market – fast fashion

Production lines that are focused on customer demand..

Finished product from 12 months to 2 weeks, sell more and less waste

The key attributes of a successful manufacturer will continue

Source: Simon, Kucher & Partners 2013 (2,746 companies over 20 years).

Key Attributes1. Extremely ambitious targets

2. Focus and depth

3. Globalisation

4. Innovation

5. Closeness to customers

6. Loyal and highly qualified staff

7. Strong and consistent leadership

• Focus on 500 companies/researchers (META 500), across industries, to build the leadership base and the activity map for META

• Collaboration as a competitive enabler within Industries and between Industries and Researchers through Collaboration hubs and Collaboration projects

• Entire value chain of manufacturing (End to End) with a lean foundation to Business Excellence

• Flexibility to operate in multi industries and markets based on core capabilities to overcome volatilities of single markets

META strategy

• Focus on tangible outcomes

• Industry collaborating with Industry

• Industry collaborating with Universities

• Leveraging existing networks (speed)

META action agenda

Hubs & Projects operate at 4 distinctive levels

4 Levels Purpose Partners (Subject matter experts)

Level 1 Community (hubs only)

Build up personal relationships, capacity and learning in a geographical area

Existing, long established and trusted organisations with an existing geographical

network

Level 2Technology &

Process

Foster collaboration on new technologies, materials, business

models, supply chains etc.

Members with a specific expertise or organisations recommended by members

Level 3 Application

Foster collaboration in areas such as Sports, Health, Logistics and other applications

Members or organisations with existing activities where META can add value

Level 4Industry

Guide Advanced Manufacturing in industries such as Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper,

Mining, Forestry etc.

Members, organisations and consultant experts open to a collaborative relationship

Integrator of existing community activities

META has identified exciting activities in Australia, but these are too often operating at a local community level only. One of META’s principles is not to duplicate these existing activities but to integrate them at a national and cross-industry level.

Activities of META

INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING(Competitiveness)

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES

META DATABASE

Companies: data mining – profiling META 500Universities: full national capability mapping

META has a strong national network of industry and universities

This network can determine like no other the future

global competitiveness of

Australian manufacturers

THANK YOUwww.meta.org.au