A National Facility- Challenges and Progress

It is all well and good to set up a National Facility comprising 8 Nodes distributed throughout Australia but it is another to actually get the Nodes to interact, communicate, share resources, handle multi-nodal requests, and promote activities together. At the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) we have make significant steps to become a truly National Facility. Regular meetings of all the Facility Manager's have facilitated discussion on issues of a national perspective. Keywords - facilities, key performance indicators, management, strategy, national, fabrication.