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P U B L I S H E R ’ S D E S K www.engineeringnews.co.nz 3 $30,000 IN CASH AND PRIZES… AND GROWING THE GREAT KIWI ENGINEERING CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS TO BE FOUND There will be a lot of industry kudos when The Great Kiwi Engineering Challenge crowns its winners. There are just two categories, Professional and Student. You can enter as teams or individuals. You can enter as companies. It’s up to you. But get cracking. The winner of the Professional category will no doubt exhibit innovation and simply awesome engineering, when unveiled at EMEX 2018. Not only will they receive that kudos for a simply incredible entry, but they will get media exposure in terms of high profile spreads in NZ Engineering News, and there’s little doubt mainstream media will leap at the opportunity to do a story on the project, after all, it’s likely to be the most over-engineered Kiwi that anyone has ever seen. They then pick up the phone to their local newspaper and say, ‘Hi, we won this,’ and that afternoon they will have a photographer, again no doubt, in the workshop to give you free exposure in an upcoming edition. It’s called pushing your own barrow – something too many Kiwi firms fall flat on their face when facing. So they don’t. But there are a lot of ‘wins’ to entering which makes the effort more than worthwhile (as well as cash and prizes which at this early stage includes professional welders, 3D printing machines and more). So go to page 5 to enter. And while I’m on the topic of professional, a recent project that the team from Engineering News has been involved with has been producing a digital mini-mag for TheOutside – a new range of outdoor oven, CNC machined screens and other ‘lifestyle but art pieces’. The oven was so good that it has been endorsed by celebrity Masterchef and entrepreneur Simon Gault. Some of the company’s panel screens and leaf pillar lights – all CNC machined – featured on TV’s The Block as part of Andy and Nate’s series winning property. TheOutside now has an extensive product catalogue, but the real cool thing is that this business was sparked by a machine and getting the most out of it, as well as getting ‘out there’ and getting involved in such television/commercial projects – pushing that barrow. A few months ago we featured the Amada LOG-3015 and how it had recently been installed with Auckland-based DM Laser, a division of point-of-sale experts DisplayMakers Limited. “We were basically setting up a new division within the company, engineering. I now couldn’t imagine a machine that could have fitted us better,” says owner Mike Penney. And that machine has been put into full swing. Mike said he wanted to get the maximum he could out of it, and with the recent exposure TheOutside has had at the Auckland Homeshow, on television through MediaWorks’ The Block, and now an off-thecuff endorsement by a guy that’s a pretty good cook, they are making every post a winner. It’s refreshing to see a business tool up, then turn it up, as DM Laser has. Their product range is focussed on the word ‘quality’. And with an absolutely precision machine they are able to deliver that time and time again – even offering bespoke variety with much in TheOutside range able to be fully customised. DM Laser just sets the pattern and presses go. A company that shoved all-in to win. A leaf could be taken by those considering entry into The Great Kiwi Engineering Challenge: you have to be in to win. Get cracking. Get entered. Push the barrow and boundaries while at it. IS YOUR WORKSHOP TO BE CROWNED THE CHAMPION?


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