[Ivan Hernandez Dala] Mechatronics bring opportunities

The International Conference on Mechatronics is being held this week

The 2017`s edition is focusing on mechatronics in the industry, including industrial automation and robotics and motion control.
With researchers, engineering teams, students, and companies making progress in mechatronics in all kind of fields is almost a shame that this conference is held every two years.

The 2017`s edition is focusing on mechatronics in the industry, including industrial automation and robotics and motion control.

General chair of the International Conference on Mechatronics Professor Yousef Ibrahim said the event, would demonstrate the importance of automation technology and how it could help local industries.

"If we develop a new technology to service and streamline industries it would increase economic sustainability."
Prof Ibrahim said an example of this was technology developed to help with the sorting of fish to export to Japan from Australia, ultimately creating an opportunity to increase business productivity and boosting profitability.



"Fisheries in East Gippsland send thousands of tons of product, but it had to be sorted into four different size categories, which people had to do manually - it was a timely exercise," he said.

"We managed to develop new technology utilizing digital imaging for the identification of fish sizes and subsequently created an automation system to sort them automatically which meant businesses could re-train their workforce and educate their employees to service and operate the digital imaging machinery taking the focus off manual labor."

Prof Ibrahim said "automation" was pivotal for a business to be profitable in this day and age.
"Industries are competing on a very diminishing profit margin; businesses need to automate or liquidate, there's no other option," he said.

Several keynote speakers will present during the three-day conference including former president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan Dr. Kouhei Ohnishi who will speak on "soft robotics", a key concept of Mechatronics.

Also, the conference will have different companies developing self-driven cars showing their progress in order to see where are we standing in the field.


 -Ivan Hernandez Dala

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