ABOUT THIS POSITION

In the near future, the Dutch manufacturing industry needs to improve on efficiency, flexibility and collaboration. Industry 4.0 (i4.0) addresses these challenges by leveraging IT solutions and connectivity to access, process and use data that is being generated in manufacturing. To speed-up our research in i4.0 we have built a configurable production line simulator. This simulator generates realistic data for experimentation with international standards and new technology (e.g. generative AI). To build these experiments we need to configure several simulation artifacts, define test scenarios and provide a low-code environment for integrating 3rd party software.

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

• You are a HBO student ICT, Informatica or related and looking for a graduation assignment of 6-9 months.
• You have an interest in the challenges that come with discrete simulation and software development, especially frontend / user-interface development.
• You have a do-er mindset and like working in a multi-disciplinary environment.

This assignment is about building a user-friendly and attractive user interface for the existing simulator.

An indication of tasks for the assignment:

• Learn about Industry 4.0 and the manufacturing domain
• Investigate & evaluate concepts and solutions for defining experiments and low-code integration of 3rd party software
• Design and implement the chosen solution in the user-interface
• Design and implement extensions for the backend, e.g. REST and websocket interfaces
• Write unit and integration tests
• Evaluate user experience (UX)
• To elicit the right design requirements and validate your work, you will work with data scientists and a production engineer from one of our clients on building a simulation of a real production line. If any simulation capabilities are missing, either you or another team member will implement those.

The current technology stack consists of:

• Frontend: Svelte + Typescript
• Backend: Python (FastAPI)
• CI/CD: Docker, Gitlab CI, unit tests

You will join our team of experienced developers, working closely to collaborate and share expertise.
The assignment will mainly take place at TNO, but we will visit some of our partner manufacturing sites for introduction, experimentation and validation.