HBO/WO: Industrial Engineering / Technische bedrijfskunde

Optimize the workflow in the OPC factory

Are you a HBO/WO student looking for a graduation assignment? Are you ready for the challenge to improve our factory flow to increase the output efficiency? We are looking for you!

Your assignment

In a factory with many different production machines and processes, a good flow is crucial to ensure high operator productivity and to keep production costs low. Over the years, a natural flow has developed in the OPC-factory, which is not necessarily the most efficient way of working.

In this assignment, you will work in a multidisciplinary team in order to increase the factory output in an ergonomic way, by focusing on the workflow. The project team consists of operators, production engineering, and occupational health and safety, and will follow a six sigma way of working. Your challenge is to find the most efficient workflow in the factory by analyzing throughput times, identifying non-value adding operations, (re)defining operator tasks, and balancing the workload between different tasks. An efficient workflow should lead to a maximized output (in total and per operator), with an optimal assurance of product quality, while minimizing the costs per product and the workload of the operators.

Your work may consist of data analysis, discussions with operators, and joining operators in production to find the elements to improve. The end goal of your assignment is to implement your suggested improvements of our workflow.

The project takes place at the OPC (organic photo conductor) factory at Manufacturing 2 at Canon Production Printing in Venlo.

Your profile

• You are currently studying Industrial Engineering/Technische Bedrijfskunde (HBO or WO)
• You think it’s a challenge to optimize the workflow in a factory
• You are skilled in communication, human dynamics, and working in a multidisciplinary team
• You are fluent in the Dutch language
• You are available for approximately 5-7 months for a minimum of 4 days per week

What’s in it for you?

• A challenging assignment with skilled coaching
• Internship/Graduation compensation of €500,- per month
• Travel cost compensation if you don’t have an ‘OV-weekcard’
• The possibility to network with professionals inside and outside your field of expertise, thanks to our diversity of disciplines which you will work with
• With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.

If you would like to receive more information concerning this assignment, please contact Rik Heinemans (rik.heinemans@cpp.canon). If you have any questions about the internship in general, please contact Renée Cox, renee.cox@cpp.canon

Waar staan wij voor?

Wij ontwikkelen en produceren hightech printproducten en workflow software voor de commerciële printing markt als onderdeel van Canon, wereldwijd marktleider in beeldtechnologieën. Met ongeveer 3300 werknemers verspreid over drie continenten en ons hoofdkantoor in Venlo, Nederland, innoveren we om hoogwaardige oplossingen te creëren die kleur toevoegen aan de wereld. Geleid door de Kyosei filosofie - samen leven en werken voor het algemeen belang – is onze cultuur gebouwd op openheid, collegialiteit, vertrouwen en stabiliteit. We stellen onze mensen in staat om te groeien, initiatief te nemen en impact te maken.
Met onze bedrijfswaarden samenwerking, innovatie en eigenaarschap, streven we ernaar het beste in elkaar naar boven te halen, grenzen te verleggen en ons gesterkt te voelen om eigenaarschap te nemen in ons werk.