All hands on deck: Building Industry 4.0 momentum in shipbuilding through University-Industry collaboration

The value of productive collaboration between universities and industry (UIC) has been the focus of considerable attention over the last decade. Concerned about the need to increase both the quantity and quality of UIC in Australia policymakers have advocated efforts to improve the nation’s UIC performance. This report focuses attention on lessons learnt from a rapidly evolving collaboration between the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute at Flinders University and BAE Systems Australia – Maritime (BAESAM). It examines the contribution played by the Accelerating the Uptake and Diffusion of Innovative Manufacturing Technologies in Australian Shipbuilding and Supply Chain: The Human Factors project funded by the Innovative Manufacturing CRC.