Digital Technology Internships

Building on a reputation for quality and service dating back to 1888, especially for home cooked meats, the company still manufacture the finest full muscle products, surpassing the quality of competitors whilst keeping the price comparable. They work closely with all their customers to provide a bespoke service enabling their business to offer unique products to their exact specifications. They do this by combining traditional methods and recipes which have been passed from generation to generation with new technology and ideas. They have a large and varied customer base, mainly operating in the food service industry, and also have their own factory shop brand and store locations.

The company has started an extensive project to digitalise it’s production management system, including full end to end stock control. Future plans to continue digitalisation across other departments, areas and applications. The internship project will focus on the post-implementation roll out of the shop floor data collection system and completing/closing out any snagging issues.

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.

Our client specialises in precision cutting and slitting of flexible materials for critical applications in aerospace and other demanding sectors including, automotive, space, healthcare, oil and gas and the 3D printing of composite tapes. They have achieved steady year on year growth since 2014 when they introduced precision narrow slitting of composites for aerospace.

Our client is looking for an intern to develop a strategy to enable sensoring of our machinery. This will provide us with data on machine performance, which will also highlight any potential issues caused through vibrations and irregular readings which may lead to machine failure and unplanned downtime.

Our client is a Micro Gin Distillery producing award-winning classically distilled gins, gin elixirs, gin marmalade and interactive products. Run by a husband and wife team. They also provide Cumbria’s only Make Your Own Gin experiences, as well as tours and tastings.

Our client wants to use digital technology to increase the visibility of their production process. This will allow them to respond quickly, flexibly and cost effectively to market demands, with no loss of quality. They plan 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.

A leading robotic integrator specialising in machining applications based in Liverpool City Region. Diverse client base including creative industries, electric vehicle manufacturers, space, defence, general manufacturing, research, and education. They are a platinum system integration partner for KUKA robots and the only UK distributor of HITECO products in the UK. Accredited to ISO9001, ISO14001 and adhere to EMC, LVD and machinery directives, CE, UKCA, and UL. Recognised as the go-to provider for robotic machining, they are now also developing a range of products for robotic assisted additive and hybrid manufacturing

When planning new data systems, the client want to ensure they work seamlessly together. This project will focus on researching and recommending data management and system tools to digitally enhance customer relationships and project management. The current CRM will not be fit for purpose as the company grows and we have a 3 month window to research & find best fit data management tools for CRM before the current licence runs out. They also want to introduce a right fit project management tool that would integrate with the CRM tool so researching the two areas and how they can best integrate to create a consolidated data management system is key. Data visualisation would also be a consideration – making dashboard(s) for easy visual analysis aiding collaborative decisions. The client is an advanced hi tech company offering robotics solutions to their customers. This project will bring latest technology and digital solutions to the business processes and bring them inline with their customer solutions.

The 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 MD established his first company in 1988 and began making licensed products in 1996 (Football’s Euro 96 tournament) and reached 50,000 units per week, then repeated this for the 1998 World Cup. In 2004/5, the business consolidated onto one site and expanded operations at the current Stockport factory through the development of adjacent units.

The company has embarked on a comprehensive digitalisation programme – basically “to automate everything that can be automated” in their new factory. This involves identifying “smart” machinery that can be linked across the factory and working with a number of external organisations who each bring their particular skills to develop the required total software solution. The company needs in-house support to work with these organisations, coordinate their respective inputs, then develop and assist in the delivery of a comprehensive, integrated solution that will meet company objectives. Currently these skills are lacking within the organisation.

Founded in 1984 the company offer customers a range of specialist precision engineered services including: • 3D Computer Design – using Solid Edge, Auto Desk and CAD CAM Fusion 360 Solid Edge Software • Prototype, sampling & volume production • 3D Print Service: Fortus 360, Markforged X7, Form Lab 3 • Jigs and tooling • Product Testing Design and development of testing equipment • 3 and 4 Axis CNC Machining of ferrous/non-ferrous/composite materials • Reverse engineering of obsolete parts • Injection moulding • Laser marking The company operates from a modern 10,000 sq ft facility with 14 full-time team members, offering a complete service from design to manufacture utilising 3D Prototype Modelling through to full scale production. The company have developed several innovative and patented products that are still in current production.

The successful intern will work alongside the managing director and production manager in the following digital transformation projects to design and develop customer products and improve workshop efficiency using the following: - CNC programming, Computer Aided Manufacture with Fusion 360 - Use of 3D printers Markforged X7, Fortus 360, and FormLab3 - Cloud based shop floor data collection system (SFDC)

The client has a passion for creating beautiful spirits and have a multi award-winning distillery with an established portfolio of gins and rum. They make up the largest family of direct siblings in the global alcohol industry. Our distillery is home to our production facility and our Tour & Experience events, where we welcome spirit lovers from all over the UK and the World to come and join us on a spirit’s journey. We are a warm, welcoming, and exciting business and have experienced significant growth in the last 2 years. We 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.

The company is a UK-based family-run manufacturer of food packaging machinery commonly found in farm shops, bakeries, butchers, and many other food preparation businesses around the world. They also provide a complete packaging solution for their customers by stocking a wide range of food trays, film, and disks to accompany their machinery range.

The company is looking to move to specific cloud-based systems that are targeted at financial management, inventory management, and a CRM – all of which can integrate with each other. Moving from one system to 3 will require significant project management and notable data transfer. We want to minimize business disruption and support continued day-to-day tasks for staff, whilst also completing the necessary transfer into the new systems.