Digital Technology Internships

Our client is a privately-owned company specialising in the production and supply of a variety of household laundry and cleaning products. They supply several national and international customers with their own brand of laundry and cleaning products.

At a high level, our client would like to optimise production from order receipt to product dispatch, optimise stock management, optimise production planning and yields from, each of their production lines (2) and blending silos (3) and monitor costs of product to maintain profitability,

Our client is an ISO 9001:2015 company with comprehensive in-house engineering facilities including precision machining, fabrication and welding, laser cutting and water jet cutting. Their problem-solving capabilities also extend to reverse engineering of obsolete or hard to replace parts or tooling.

Our client wishes to deploy a Management Information System (MIS) or Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP), which is highly configurable and wholly appropriate to the nature of their business, which shall form the backbone of their business upon which all data and information interchange shall take place.

Formed in 1946, the company is a preeminent specialist Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) organisation that enables their customers and end users to support their products, systems, and platforms, many of which have critical status for extended periods, to and often beyond the products natural lifespan. Operating in the Global Defence, Nuclear and Oil & Gas industries, they utilise their extensive knowledge and supporting supply chain to maintain a continued availability of components, which ensures a product life extension for their customers as well as specialist knowledge in the sourcing of obsolete/difficult to source components. As a sustainable, profitable, private company with a rich past and secure future, they are committed to extending certainty for their customers, their products, projects, and needs. From their 22,000 square ft. manufacturing facility based in Worsley, Manchester, the company offer both a flexible and responsive service to their customers.

This project is part of a Government Industrial Strategy Funded Project, working in partnership with BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, GKN, Nissan, and Airbus UK. The aim is to remove paperwork from the shop floor, using technology to improve efficiency within their operations and ultimately deliver better value to their customers. Additionally, they wish to integrate Digital Technology, initiate a connected facility where decisions are made based on live accessible data presented across all areas of the business from a central location for users to access, interact and analyse up-to-date information to enable smarter, data-driven decisions.

Our client is a Surface Treatments and Non-destructive testing company who supply services to the Aerospace Industry. The company was originally formed in 1887 and is believed to be 2nd oldest company in Liverpool. The company predominantly supply to the UK aerospace market but some of the end customers are in Europe and the USA.

Our client is looking to strengthen the team to support the implementation process of a new ERP system. This project will digitalise shop floor data capture and provide data analytics focused on productivity and customer service. The successful candidate will take a lead role within the implementation team and be responsible for the successful data migration and introduction of the WIP tracking process.

Our client is an owner-managed textile business based in Stockport. The company was established in 1999 and now employs over 100 FTEs. They set out to be the UK’s first one stop shop in the garment sector, bringing together all the key garment finishing processes including labelling, printing and embroidery together in one business. The company has now been supplying Britain’s businesses with branded work wear and promotional clothing for 20 years and more recently has opened routes to export sales into Europe.

The proposal of this project is to adopt a proof of concept bar code scanner that will create a “box list” digitally. This will follow the example case study shown on the digitalshoestring.com website where a barcode scanner and database was implemented for less than £1000. This project should be a great real-life application of technology and will provide the basis to engage further down the line in building out a solution to remove the manual systems causing unnecessary data entry.

Our client is a privately-owned family business celebrating its 43rd year. From humble beginnings as a one-man-band making wrought-iron gates, they now employ around 80 staff as a subcontract steelwork manufacturer to a wide range of sectors including rail, defence, office furniture, automotive, and cycling to name a few.

The intern would support the implementation of the SFDC system and create the analysis tools required to close the feedback loop in their newly digitised factory. The goal is digital capacity planning for their manufacturing plant.

The company is a multi-disciplinary creative studio. Creating objects, structures, and experiences in the form of large-scale artworks, public art installations, bespoke sculptural commissions, interiors, custom made furniture art, as well as design style experiences and brand promotional objects. They have always had a commitment to combine traditional handcraft techniques with more modern cutting-edge technologies. This allows the opportunity to explore new concepts in the world of art and design, to explore the boundaries between art and design by using them to tell a story and produce pieces that are site specific and unique.

One of our core values is that of combining traditional hand-crafted processes with the latest in technological advancements. Having a skilled intern who can look at the machinery and operate it to its full potential would be a fantastic asset. Successful candidate should be able to understand the extent of the possibilities that the automated machinery can reach, to develop new products depending on the capabilities of the machinery, but also be able to use it as a tool to enhance the scope of manufacturing and design ideas for bespoke installations. Help to create a circular economy within the business by using the machinery to its utmost potential. Our ideal scenario would be for the robot to ensure we continue our sustainable path as a designer and manufacturer and hopefully enhance this with the products and processes that will be able to be implemented due to the robotic machinery. We would like to utilise the plastic extruder to contribute to the ideal situation of the business having a circular economy full time.

Our client is a micro Gin Distillery producing award-winning classically distilled gins, gin elixirs, gin marmalade and interactive products.

Our client wants to use digital technology to increase the visibility of our production process. This will allow the business to respond quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively to market demands, with no loss of quality. They aim to use pilot projects to help explore the viability of a product or process change and identify how well the company is equipped to innovate in this area.

The company are an electrical and electronic engineering business. They develop, specify, test, assemble, manufacture, and maintain the hardware and software for their novel carbon saving product. Their technology makes power distribution networks smart and capable of accepting more low carbon technology in homes and businesses, ad is Patented. They passionately believe in sustainability.

The successful intern will be involved in an exciting technology trial which is scheduled for first deployment in the real world during the placement. This project will support the development of an improved design for scaled up smart manufacture. The company’s technology is housed in street side cabinets and includes communications, control electronics, firmware, server software, and, high current: switchgear; and power electronics. Work conducted by the student will aim to streamline and automate manufacturing processes to enable scale up from trial to mass production.

The company has a passion for creating beautiful spirits and have a multi award-winning distillery with an established portfolio of gins and rum. The distillery is home to a production facility and Tour & Experience events, where spirit lovers from all over the UK and the World to come and join a spirit’s journey. The company is a warm, welcoming, and exciting business and have experienced significant growth in the last 2 years. They are looking to continue expanding the business with further major growth.

This role will be fundamental to fast tracking the integration of the e-commerce; stock inventory management and accounting systems. Building on this, it will also integrate the B2C communication and dispatch and shipping systems. The project will create a data ecosystem; one interconnected system that will be key to increasing efficiency across the business and support the growth plans. You will have the skills and experience to effectively integrate their systems in the most efficient way. You will also bring a fresh perspective to the business and in working alongside the team, you will gain invaluable industry experience with a growing company.