Definitions & Guidelines
To assist you with this application the judges have provided some guidelines.
When providing your answers, the “For Example” / guidelines we have suggested for each question are not intended to be exhaustive. They are designed as examples and prompts to help you understand the judges’ requirements. It is important that where you state that you have evidence in support of the specific question you are answering, you need to provide that evidence – usually, a generic brochure or company overview is NOT sufficient.
Technology
Nominations are open to any manufacturing company that has developed a new technology or has applied existing technology in a novel way that has increased sales, improved the productivity or increased the quality of its goods or services and positively impacted on safety due to the introduction of the new technology (provide evidence of these effects where possible).
The technology may be in partnership with a technology provider, but, the category is open only to the manufacturing company that employs those undertaking that technology.
The judges will look for examples of innovations in technology that include, but are not limited to, new invention, performance, technology development, process improvement and e-commerce or e-trading applications.
This category is only eligible for companies who initially develop / employ the use of the new technology for internal process improvement.
It maybe that a new line of business / product can be offered externally from the new technology, however, the initial intent is to improve its own internal process.
Note – Applicants may find that their application into the Excellence in Technology category may also be a ‘fit’ for another category, such as marketing, product design, innovation, manufacturing process, export, etc. By adapting the information to fit the criteria of other categories you give yourself the opportunity for your product, process etc to be profiled in more than one sector.
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Back to TopExample Information Required
Each of the listed criteria must be addressed and where possible, evidence provided
Photographs, drawings, etc, may be included as an attachment to this application form and should be labelled clearly for the judges. E.g. Question 3 – evidence provided
Please address the following criteria and restrict the content of each criteria response to 200 words or less. For example; Question 1 can only have a maximum of 200 words.
Maximum File Size
The entry form allows a maximum file size of 20MB to be uploaded. If you are having issues with the size of your example files, please contact Carol McEwan on info@hma.org.au or call 0438 242 899 to make an alternate arrangement to send your file(s).
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Back to TopJudging Criteria & Values
Below is a breakdown of each question, the criteria judges will be looking for and the value of each question.
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5 / 60 |
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10 / 60 |
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10 / 60 |
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5 / 60 |
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10 / 60 |
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10 / 60 |
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10 / 60 |
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Back to TopPrevious Year's Winner
Representative – Keiran Moore – With Sponsor- Strata Worldwide (Australia) – Ceo – Tony Lobb
2017 Winner – Airpak Sheetmetal
Airpak Sheetmetal has invested in several advanced machinery to improve their productivity in a declining sheetmetal fabrication industry. And instead of scaling down like everyone else in the industry, Airpak decided to upscale production. The idea came from their analysis that the current process on manual airduct cutting and shaping is very tideous process and often dangerous. They embarked on initial technology investment in 2007 on a plasma cutter and tdf machine which proved to be beneficial on output and safety; and followed on with further systematic technology investment. Their technology acquisition has allowed Airpak Sheetmetal to bid on much larger project and resulted in annualised growth of 16% over the period of 2012-2017. The company has also more than tripled its workforce from 6 (in 2007) to 23 people (in 2017).