Australian uni receives $135m to digitalize its Factory of the Future

Posted on 25 Sep 2017 by The Manufacturer

Australia's Swinburne University of Technology has received a record $135m industrial software grant from engineering giant Siemens to help digitalize its Factory of the Future as it moves into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).

Swinburne’s Factory of the Future has received additional funding. Image courtesy of Swinburne University of Technology. The grant will be used to digitalize Australia’s first fully immersed Industry 4.0 facility, situated at the Melbourne-based university, by providing new software and giving students and researchers the same apparatus being used by leading…

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