IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As IKEA’s own furniture manufacturer our role is to offer a unique advantage for IKEA as a world leader in home furnishing.

Our operations include forestry, sawmills, boards, component and furniture production. IKEA culture and values shape everything we do. Not only do the IKEA values bring us together, they also help us to do business successfully.

Are you passionate about developing the next generation of production plants in global manufacturing company?

This master thesis at IKEA Industry expectation is to work with latest advances in digital production and further developing manufacturing processes in high-performing sustainable production systems.

Role:

This master thesis will evaluate and apply tools and methods in order to holistically optimize production system design in global manufacturing operations. Work includes close cooperation with industry experts, product development and several of the collaborating companies and research institutions.

Engineering and design should consider problem statement from system perspective with focus on seamless flow of material, people, knowledge and data based on IKEA Production System (IPS) foundations.

To exemplify, master thesis should orchestrate individual machine and its technical development into an efficient systematic interaction with flow capacity, knowledge capacity, people capacity, data capacity and organizational capacity with constantly shifting balance/bottleneck between those capacities

We are looking for you who are passionate about developing the next generation of production plants in global manufacturing company. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about advanced development in intersection between material, product, digital and automation to offer customer even better home furnishing products which many more of the many will be able and excited to afford.

We also believe that you have a combination of the following knowledge and capabilities:

• Supply chain operations
• Production systems engineering
• Manufacturing processes               
• Operations strategy
• Lean methodology

Location is flexible, supervisor is based at IKEA Industry office in Malmö, Sweden. Our wish is that you start 16th or 17th of January 2023.

Master thesis present opportunity for travelling and site visits.

For thesis specific questions please contact Automation development manager – IKEA Supervisor, Rozle Penca: [email protected] and to know about recruitment process contact Recruitment Specialist, Rida Gustafsson: [email protected].
Apply latest by 8th January, 2023. Please send in your CV and motivation letter in English as soon as possible since we are going through applications as they arrive.

Please note: To take part of the Thesis work, you have to be enrolled in a thesis course provided at university level/Thesis agreement with the Swedish university.