Transcript for the video embedded in the LBBC Knowledge Transfer Partnership case study.
[The screen shows a red and black background with the title ‘University of Leeds KTP Case Studies: LBBC Technologies’.]
[Music]
[Dr David Cowell, Academic Supervisor for this KTP, from the University of Leeds, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Dr David Cowell says:] “At this moment in time we are at the beginning of the fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0 is taking data from individual machines and sensors and then using it with technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning and developing products which previously would not have been possible. My name is Dr. David Cowell I am the university Academic Supervisor for this KTP with LBBC Technologies my role is to look at the skills and existing abilities within LBBC technologies to use this for recruitment to find the suitable candidate who will be the bridge between the university and LBBC.”
[Andrew Smith, Lead Innovation Engineer at LBBC and KTP Associate, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Andrew Smith says:] “So my name is Andrew Smith, I am the Lead Innovation Engineer for LBBC. My KTP was developing cloud technology. So LBBC make industrial autoclaves. They're used by people like G.E. Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney, in the manufacture of things like turbine blades. The purpose of the KTP was, in a nutshell, we want all of our machines to be online, we want to know exactly what they're doing wherever they are, and we want to be able to add value to the customer through that”
[Howard Pickard, Managing Director of LBBC Group, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Howard Pickard says:] “My name is Howard Pickard and I am Managing Director of LBBC Group. We have the reality the practical experience of us as a business and then the academic and the theoretical input from the university so it became evident that we could benefit from that academic input into the way we move our business forward.”
[Dr David Cowell, Academic Supervisor for this KTP, from the University of Leeds, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Dr David Cowell says:] “In the case of LBBC Technologies, they had lots of data which was stored internally in machines which had already been deployed . The challenge here was taking this data and making it accessible, combining it into a single source so that it could be used to see ways that machines are failing and requiring technology and then developing ways of improving the efficiency and looking for preventative maintenance measures.”
[Andrew Smith, Lead Innovation Engineer at LBBC and KTP Associate, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Andrew Smith says:] “So whereas before support was we get a phone call from a customer and typically we'd have to put somebody on a plane. Now even before the phone call we know what's happened to a machine. We often know about problems and challenges or alerts or insights before a customer does. Sometimes it's us contacting the customer to say ‘did you know?’”
[Howard Pickard, Managing Director of LBBC Group, appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Howard Pickard says:] “So a spin off advantage of entering the KTPs with Leeds University is that we have used students for other projects so they have done summer placements for us. We're sponsoring a PhD student under the CASE programme and I think once you gain the experience and the knowledge you begin to see that the return on investment is worthwhile.”
[The video ends with a screen displaying the text “leeds.ac.uk/ktp”.]