González Juan

Thesis internship at Volvo Group. Duties included:

• Extensive literature review on sustainability assessments such as LCA and VSM.
• Data quality assessment and data preparation: selection, cleaning, construct, integration, and construction.
• Create key performance indicators to look for trends in consumption and calculate descriptive statistics.
• Find evidence of inefficient use of energy and resources in an automotive machining production line based on production events.

Research Assistant in the area of advanced production at the Industrial and Material Science Department. Duties included:

• Develop a 4-month research plan for the development of digital twins for a small-scale drone factory.
• Collaborate weekly with a team of researchers, enhancing their knowledge of digital twins and supporting the data collection stage.
• Support academic writing of two scientific articles in the area of advanced maintenance.

Thesis work at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Duties included:

• Create an 8-month research plan to develop a monitoring system for agricultural research by using Python, SQL, and Codesys.
• Communicated hardware systems of the smart greenhouse of the department such as PLC, actuators, sensors, and computers to support decision-making when growing crops.
• Used IoT tools such as Node-Red and communication protocols such as MQTT to transfer valuable data through the same network.