https://www.innovationaus.com/billion-dollar-baby-manufacturing-gets-a-boost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=billion-dollar-baby-manufacturing-gets-a-boost Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:21:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.innovationaus.com/billion-dollar-baby-manufacturing-gets-a-boost/#comment-308 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:21:38 +0000 https://innovationaus.wpengine.com/?p=14821#comment-308 We in the Telecommunications industry should also be looking for areas that make sense to manufacture in Australia. Modern manufacturing techniques are much less reliant on cheap labour as a cost driver.
My money would be on a key area such as the Radio Access Network (RAN) of 5G, where designs already in existence could be licensed by the large manufacturers to smaller operators in Australia (such as Netcomm, for example). The RAN systems will be required in high volume and will be critical to future industry, transport and other areas of the economy (as the federal government has been pointing out).
It will also reduce dependence on foreign players (and improve security) if the control of manufacturing were here.
Food for thought, I hope.

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