This project will review how productivity improvements can be tackled by the use of robotics and automation in a flexible and lean light manufacturing environment.
The work will provide the Research Engineer(RE) with exciting challenges and opportunities, firstly where the RE will develop a systemic approach to development, linking human and technology advancement based on using specialist skills in robotics and machine systems in new ways.
Secondly finding solutions in a real industrial setting where the complexity of the process in producing a wide variety of products can cause barriers in the business in using automation effectively.