Rockfield Technologies is a specialist engineering consultancy head-quartered in Townsville with offices in most Australian capital cities. Rockfield was formed as a partnership with Rockfield Software in Swansea (UK) in 2000 to diffuse advanced computational engineering services to Australian industries. Today, Rockfield has matured into a specialist high technology engineering consultancy with core skills in asset excellence (I4.0), Rockfield Infratech IoT services, and advanced engineering design encompassing compliance and state of the art computational mechanics.
Over the past decade Rockfield has focussed its business on assisting clients from across industrial sectors in better understanding and managing the risk profile of their critical assets in terms of capacity utilisation, structural integrity, remnant life and Standard’s compliance. In recent years, Rockfield has been actively collaborating with a number of national universities and CSIRO Data61 in translating research in advanced simulation, IoT, and Digital Twins into engineering applications. Our overarching goal is to empower our clients with technological solutions. Rockfield’s network spans public and private infrastructure (mine to port), government departments (city to bush), and universities.
Rockfield is acutely aware of the challenges facing all countries with net zero. The built environment and use of energy are significant contributors to CO2 emissions. The most common construction materials, steel, and concrete, emit CO2 as part of the production process. Optimising the use of these materials through efficient designs and extension of asset life is a core part of Rockfield’s business. By producing designs which make the most efficient use of energy possible, Rockfield is assisting our clients to reduce their energy use and carbon footprint.
Rockfield considers Australia’s entry into the H2 production era as timely from a net zero perspective and pertinent and opportunistic for NQ. The functional ecosystem required to support such activities will serve our region and it transitions to a more sustainable society.
With respect to H2, Rockfield appreciates the complex loading and material behaviours experienced with hydrogen production and transport infrastructure. Rockfield’s experience with simulations and monitoring provides valuable insight into these multifaceted engineering challenges.
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Rockfield has formed an internal working group for the implementation of hydrogen within our business. This working group includes a team of domain experts in advanced simulation, materials science, and Industry 4.0 technologies. We are currently exploring the challenges that are posed by the scaling up of hydrogen production, transportation and storage.