The university used to have an innovation hub, now it’s got a district

Labor has committed $20m to Flinders Us proposed “future factory,” a “test-bed facility … to explore the application of new technologies capable of manufacturing next generation products.”

The commitment goes toward the $50m Flinders needs for the Australian Centre for Innovative Manufacturing. If established ACIM will research and teach technologies, including digital assisted manufacture assemble and collaborative robotics.

Presumably this will work with Flinders U’s Future Factory in  what was the manufacturing innovation hub, on the former Mitsubishi site at Tonsley Park (

CMM February 9 2018). The site is now upgraded to “an innovation district”.