Our Year in Industry at Atlas Copco UK

We are eight undergraduate students from Hertfordshire, Coventry and Reading university. We are undertaking a Year in Industry at Atlas Copco UK. For more information on Atlas Copco in the UK visit: www.atlascopco.co.uk

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Busy day in Hemel Yard!

Cranes are often used to load/unload the large compressor packages we supply. Today this crane has been used to load 3 large containerized compressors being sent to the end user

-Toby

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Farnborough Southern Manufacturing Show

Yesterday Thibault, Nuno and I went to the Farnborough southern manufacturing show. We had a look at all the different companies set up and what they had to offer.

Here are a few of the exhibitions we looked at.

-Vivian

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Valeo Visit

I got to visit Valeo in Swindon. They have a production plant tha produces the cooling system for Honda Cars. I was able to see their production line where they use Desoutter tools. 

-Vivian

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Desoutter Academy Training

Using Desoutter Tools during training

-Vivian

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Desoutter Academy Training

This week I took part in Desoutter's academy training session. I learned all about the range of products Desoutter has to offer and also got training on some of these products.

Here is everyone having a go using the CVI II controllers.

-Vivian

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Atlascopcosaurus

Did you know that there is a species of dinosaur called “ Atlascopcosaurus” named after Atlas Copco for providing the mining equipment that discovered it in Australia! We still have one working in the office today!

- Josh & Murray

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Always Improving

We held a meeting with our sales team to see how we can improve our leads that we send over to them. Above are some of the notes that we took down.

Constantly trying to improve our quality of work!

-Ashil 

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The Compressor Store goes Worldwide!

Atlas Copco UK was the first company to introduce a Compressor Store available for customers! Now the compressor store is going Worldwide with different Atlas Copco branches launching their own!

My supervisor is the main point of contact for queries about the Compressor Store and I assist him with that. Just recently we had a meeting with the Vice President of Marketing & Worldwide E-Commerce Manager about launching the compressor store on an international scale!

Exciting stuff!

-Ashil

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We’re also raising money for World Water Day here in the Hemel Office!

Here are just the few I managed to grab for a picture. We’re in blue and donating to the charity set up by Atlas Copco employees over 30 years ago - Water For All. They really do great things for people with no access to clean drinking water. Check them out here: http://www.water4all.org/us/ ~Micah

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Water for All

Next week Wednesday 22nd of March is World Water Day. As Atlas Copco's charity is Water for All, we decided to hold a dress in blue day today to raise money for Water for All. Find out more about the wonderful work Water for All does here.

Here's everyone in Desoutter dressed in our favourite blue outfits.

-Vivian

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First week in systems

It’s been a challenging first week in Systems. With the help of Bhanu – Systems Business Controller, I am beginning to understand my new role and the responsibilities I have been entrusted with. Some of the tasks I have been given include functional cost and cost centre analysis as well as assisting with month end close reporting. This is just a flavour of what I will be experiencing over the next few months within the Finance team. -Samir

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New Project-Pivotware

My new project involves the UK product launch of the new Pivotware software here in Desoutter. I get to be involved in all aspects of the launch including marketing, projects, sales and service. This will give me the opportunity to see all the different aspects that are involved in a product launch. I have even been able to travel to Burton-on-Trent, Pivotware headquarters to see everything that goes into creating new innovative software.

To find out more about Pivotware click here.

-Vivian

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A perfect day to cycle!

You know it’s going to be a great week when you’ve cycled in to work with the sunshine at your back. Looking forward to it! :) 

-Tom

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Light Towers

Our Atlas Copco portable light towers in the yard, these machines have a 0.5 litres per hour fuel efficiency which gives a running time of 260 hours on one small tank of fuel. The lights can illuminate a 5000 metre squared area with a brightness of 20 Lux. The towers also have light sensors which sense when it gets light/dark. As a result they can be set up so that when it gets dark the tower powers up and raise up to full height and then turns off and drops down again once it is light again. As a result these machines can run completely self sufficiently for 2-3 weeks if needs be!

-Murray

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From Tools to Desoutter

After saying goodbye to Atlas Copco Tools, I have now moved to Desoutter. My first week here has been great getting to the team and I look forward to experiencing everything Desoutter has to offer.

-Vivian

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Fleet Vehicles

Just a few of the huge fleet of vehicles which are used by the service engineers to maintain our products

-Murray