Internship - Digitalization & AI for Wiper Blade Testing

Company Description

Robert Bosch Produktie N.V., located in Tienen, Belgium, is within the Bosch Group the lead plant and worldwide center of competence for development, engineering, and manufacturing of wiper arms. Customers are both original equipment automotive car manufacturers and aftermarket customers. A part of the Bosch strategy, we offer students the opportunity to participate in an internship at our location. 

Safety, Cost efficiency and quality are our main focus points, and to maintain the excellent position we are at, we strive for: continuous improvement of our equipment efficiency, proactive work on process understanding and root cause analysis, introduction of new process and process automatisation to reduce manufacturing cost and introduction of new products to improve customer satisfaction.

If you are looking for a position where you can take initiative, learn, and bring added value in an industrial environment, you are the student we are looking for. The internship will ideally last 6 months and will be fulltime.    

Job Description

Your challenge

Join our wiper blade test department and help us make our testing processes smarter, more standardized and data-driven. You will work on practical digitalization and AI solutions together with our test engineers.

Your main tasks

• Test specification standardization
  • Compare existing wiper blade test specifications and identify opportunities for complexity reduction.
  • Standardize test descriptions and required information.
  • Develop an AI-based solution to easily compare specifications and highlight differences.
• AI for test reports
  • Develop an AI solution to search and analyze historical test reports.
  • Investigate how the quality and structure of existing data can be improved.
  • Create a standardized template for future test reports to enable effective AI-based analysis.
• Digitalization of test equipment
  • Update the test equipment inventory, including equipment locations.
  • Support the preparation and entry of equipment data into the new laboratory management system planned for 2027.
• Wiper arm digitalization & 3D scanning
  • Create an inventory of available wiper arms and link them to the existing wiper arm library.
  • Support the digitalization of wiper arms using 3D scanning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master student with a technical/engineering background, for example mechanical, automotive, electromechanical or industrial engineering.
• A strong interest in digitalization and Artificial Intelligence.
• An analytical and structured way of working.
• Motivation to work with technical specifications, test reports and engineering data.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with test engineers.
• Good written and spoken English, as you will work with technical specifications, reports and colleagues in an international environment.

Additional Information

The internship requires that you have the nationality of a EU-country. 

The personal experience of the interns is usually the following: The company employs 10-15 interns all year round from various countries. Therefore this is also a great opportunity to enhance your social and language skills. The interns live mostly in Tienen or in Leuven, known as a multicultural university city. You receive 800 € as expense reimbursement per month. 

Practical Information 

Duration: total 6 months 

Location: Hamelendreef 80, 3300 Tienen, Belgium