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 a 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 work flow. 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 work flow in the factory, by analysing throughput times, identifying non-value adding operations, (re)defining operator tasks and balancing the work load between the different tasks. An efficient work flow 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 work load 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 work flow.

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

What do we stand for?

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.