T levels information for students

It has made me realise what I want to do in the future. And It’s kind of like a dream job that I never knew I wanted. And it really does help you see what the real world is like. I can definitely say I'm more confident in my skills and abilities. I know to myself that I'm improving but I want to keep on improving and keep on progressing. I would say definitely go for it because it's opened up so many opportunities. I’ve learnt so much when I’ve been here that I never thought I would. Even in a year I’ve seen so much development in myself and I feel like if i did not have the placement I wouldn’t be this confident. They treat me as an equal. I don’t feel like I’m treated as a child. I think that’s really liberating for me. I feel empowered by the fact that I’m no longer a student I’m an employee. They can teach you stuff that they’ve grown up with, and I think that’s good on the practical side. When you’re working they can give you tips on how they’ve done it. I think, when you get here, it's definitely something to consider because it opens so many avenues in the future. In college, I understand more things because I have already seen them. So I understand how this business works. Is was actually a big impact on me to do the placement because I was indecisive in the beginning. But, after I did that, I knew what I wanted to be, what I wanted to do, and I would definitely do it again if I had the chance. You need experience. It might be forty five days, it might seem a bit long, you don’t get paid for it but the opportunities that come from that are well worth it. With it on your CV, you're more likely to get a job over someone else who hasn't got industry placement. So it's an amazing opportunity as well. You can make connections with different people so definitely do it if you get the opportunity to.

[Music] Lyndhurst as a business is a engineering company we do our own design work in house and then we'll do the development prototyping of various tooling or special purpose Machinery it can be for food industry Automotive nuclear varied inv vast we always found it was hard to find good apprentices there's an industry shortage of young people come through the industry so bringing T- Level students in is trying to fill that Gap in the [Music] market it wasn't something I knew about actually tea levels it was introduced to us by going on school visits College visits supporting open days from that we started getting requests to host them for tea levels we've currently got three students with us now we've had them fabricating we've had them working CNC machines and programming they're not making fictitious jobs up for them you know they're actually here helping the business the students com to Linda's Precision already with some knowledge about engineering we're not starting from scratch they've been taught stuff at college and they could each time they come what I like to see is how excited they are to come so much so they ask can we come in the holidays could we do an extra day and if they want to come in and do more and learn more give them the opportunity you know that's all I can say the place m is really important for having hands-on experience in a workplace I find it very interesting designing new parts and new technologies for engineering because it's the future they come with a syllabus basic syllabus of things they want to hopefully cover depending on what skill sets you've got within the business you you use it to your best ability get the students involved let them develop and work with your team as a day-to-day business don't change the business keep the business the same and they will fit in with you we'll be doing it again and we'll continue doing that it has been a success it's a success story [Music]

I work at Siemens Congleton within the test engineering team we design and Implement test systems to test the functionality of the product before we ship it off to customers we produce variable speed drivers at Congleton these used in areas such as baggage handling Heating and ventilation control or any area where you may need to control the motion of a motor so I work on projects aiming to automate the test process to increase the amount of products that we can output without impacting on the quality delivered to our final customer Siemens Congleton is a high tech Factory using pick and place machines and automation systems to do this we use programmable logic controllers at the heart of the automation so a PLC is a real-time computer which runs on its own programming language it checks all of its inputs runs a specific set of code and then sets all of its outputs so we use plc's to run our test systems they allow us to automate the test process connecting up all the instruments to the unit correctly and then also running it to full load test and within a safe manner so going into the future customers are expecting to customize their product with increasing complexity the only way to do this is with plc's due to the amount of repeatability and speed that they run it the next steps within the technology will be using the plcs to capture all the data and use machine and learning to see Trends within this data another area which I see developing is the use of AI so all the data captured by the test system can be used to generate the results and Trends to see whether we need to perform proactive maintenance on the machines to prevent downtime in order to improve the manufacturing process [Music]

I work in the Aerospace industry at BAE Systems my job is to manufacture Precision components for military aircraft as a machinist we use a number of materials such as Composite Materials reinforced Plastics titanium aluminium I've used five AIS machines worked with robotic arms in automated production lines so that you can machine complex curves and surfaces which are pretty typical for aircraft the properties of materials specific for aircraft is things like strength to weight ratio another thing is how does the material react to fatigue and corrosion other examples might be um machine ability as well because you have to manufacture these aircraft at scale so you have to whip with materials that are readily available when you work in the Aerospace industry there's absolutely no room for error everything has to work and conform to specific tolerances and standards an example is within the first year of apprenticeship I was manufacturing a part to a tolerance of plus or minus 50 microns and to give some perspective from that 70 microns is the width of a human hair so as a machinist that's your bread and butter you just make the part to the tolerance some of the materials and equipment that we work with can potentially be very dangerous we get very sharp Corners burs and we have to wear protective gloves to stop ourselves getting CAU we also work with various lubricants and and coolants that some of which are come under the control of hazardous substances so we have various controls in place to protect ourselves and others aerospace engineering is a continuously evolving and developing field an example of technologies that are on the horizon is increasing use of additive layer manufacturing where we grow Parts another example is use of Robotics and Co robotics in the manufacturing production line but also operators may be using virtual reality to actually manufacture the aircraft tomorrow's Aerospace industry is going to be going like faster and higher than ever before and we're going to need materials that are fit for purpose I expect to see UNM air vehicles but also potentially on the future Horizon I expect to be working on spacecraft at some point in time which is really exciting.