About Us

Based in Melbourne, Australia, we are a proud advocate of quality focussed manufacturing, and prioritise transparency, honesty and ethical decision making. 

Our history

Hand-On Industries is an Australian Owned and Operated End-to-End Manufacturing Specialist with over 90 years of experience.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, we are a proud advocate of quality focused manufacturing, and prioritise transparency, honesty and ethical decision making. We serve as an On-Shore Supply Chain partner for many companies, allowing them to leverage and support the Australian economy.

As a local supplier, we maintain clear, honest and readily available communication with all of our customers, and strive to provide components and service that far exceed their expectations

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Years of experience

One stop shop

At Hand On Industries, we manage all stages of manufacturing for components and assemblies, from design consultation, to prototyping, ongoing production and design iteration.

We leverage our broad experience servicing specialist industries to work with companies at any stage of their product development process. At Hand-On Industries, we work with a any engineering data to implement processes such as prototyping, product re-engineering, manufacturing optimization, inspection, quality control and design iteration to achieve your component/ assembly production requirements.

We recommend that companies with any component/ assembly manufacturing requirements make contact to see how having a quality focussed Australian based On-Shore Supply Chain partner may service your needs.

Benefits of Australian Made

Quality focused

As an Australian based manufacturer, we at Hand-On Industries provide greater oversight and quality control during the production process. This ensures the best quality possible for our customers by providing them direct and tangible influence over the production of their components/ assemblies.

Transparency

Hand-On Industries provides transparency of process and the ability to oversee the production of manufactured components/ assemblies. As an Australian manufacturer, we ensure our customers have the ability to consult directly and in-person with their manufacturer about product requirements.

On Shore supply chain

Since 2020 under the pressures caused by the global pandemic, many companies have identified a need to ‘on-shore’ their supply chain for components/ assemblies (SYSPRO, 2023). Aside from economic benefits, there are many tangible attributes that having an on-shore supplier enables for companies, including improved lines of communications, reduced lead times, increased flexibility and better support for the local economy.

Furthermore, companies may improve their marketability by engaging with Australian Owned and Operated entities, who can verify that they are serving as active members in the manufacturing community of Australia, as More than four in five Australians say that buying Australian-made is important to them. (Roy Morgan, 2023).

Hand-On Industries is proud to be an On-Shore Supply Chain partner of choice for many other Australian companies, supplying components and assemblies that are made in Australia to Australian standards, with majority Australian resources (unless unavailable).

Quality assurance

At Hand-On Industries, we have implemented a comprehensive set of Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) measures, to ensure that a customer’s components/ assemblies meet or exceed their expected standards.

We leverage in-house digital asset control measures (including CAD facilities, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and version control) to ensure that a customer’s components/ assemblies are manufactured exactly to their specifications, whilst also maximising production flexibility and product iteration.

We also undertake best-practice inspection on all of our customers components to ensure that all features meet tolerance, fit and finish requirements. At Hand-On Industries we work closely with customers to resolve production related issues, ensuring that the customer receives exactly what they ask for.

In-house CAD CAM

At Hand-On Industries, we have the capacity to generate Computer Aided Design (CAD) data from any other form of engineering data. CAD services enable a digitised and verifiable record of engineering data that ensures precision and repeatability in the manufacturing process.

CAD models enable us to use Computer Aided Manufacturing processes, where the digitised designs are programmed into the control systems of manufacturing equipment to repeatably produce complex and tightly toleranced components in any volume. This ensures that time and resource savings can be maximised, with this value being passed onto our customers.

The digital assets produced by CAD modelling enables high quality production through the management of version control, design iteration and verification. Generating CAD models allows us to efficiently and cost-effectively manufacture components and assemblies which maximises value-for-money and decreases the likelihood of production issues.