Graduation: Mechanical Engineer

• Assignment type: Graduation
• Start date: August/ September 2024
• Assignment Duration: 4-5 months
• Location: Veghel
• Educational Level: HBO (Bachelor’s)
• Desired Study: Mechanical engineering
• Language: Dutch / English

Assignment

Vanderlande is a market leading, global partner for logistic process automation. One of Vanderlande’s key product is the loopsorter which exist in a so called crossbelt sorter & a helix sorter which Vanderlande develops and produces. See also: Vanderlande CROSSORTER – YouTube. In order to strengthen Vanderlande’s market position the loopsorter is being developed on continuous base. As part of this continuous development, we have defined this assignment. The scope of the assignment is to investigate and determine the most optimal drivetrain(s) for loopsorters. Considered, ease of production, installation, functionality, lifetime, maintainability, and cost.

Department

The Technology department (R&D) plays a key role in the continuous development of new products and technologies to strengthen our position on the market and differentiate our products. You will be part of the Loopsorter team (Internal system) which operates within the Technology department. The loopsorter team is a multidisciplinary team that develops Vanderlande’s loopsorter systems under which the crossbelt sorter.

Tasks/responsibilities

• Setup the requirements for the loopsorter drivetrain requirements together with stakeholders.
• Analyze the current design in combination with alternative designs using the known concept selection methods (morphological overview).
• Detail the most promising concepts further and validate these to the requirements.
• Conclude and advise Vanderlande on the design directions for the drive train of future loopsorters.

Skills / Your profile

• Work independent on your assignment
• Collaborate with the team and organization to achieve the goals
• *Mandatory enrolment in a Dutch Education System and resident of The Netherlands