Jagjit brings big gains for small firm Sep 19 2006
Jagjit brings big gains for small firm Sep 19 2006
STUDENT Jagjit Bhangal has helped a Coventry firm develop a new manufacturing process which will bring considerable cost savings.
The impressive achievement has bagged the 20-year-old the top gong in Coventry and Warwickshire's Most Enterprising Student award scheme.
Jagjit received the accolade after winning the University of Warwick Science Park Final of the Shell Step 2006 student placement programme.
Shell Step places undergraduates with small and medium sized companies to look at a particular challenge in developing the business.
Jagjit worked at Lloyds Industries, off Torrington Avenue, Tile Hill, in the summer holidays.
Employing almost 30 people, the company makes "carcasses" used for bedroom and home office furniture.
Production currently uses a two-step process on separate machinery for the cutting and then drilling of the furniture.
The firm wanted to introduce a single system.
Jagjit, a former pupil of Ernesford Grange Community School, helped develop a new manufacturing process, which will cost £250,000 but bring long-term gain.
An aeronautical engineering student at Imperial College, London, he said: "Although a big investment, the new system will bring considerable cost benefits to the company.
"It will reduce labour requirements and free up valuable factory space by the use of a single machine.
"The combined process is much more productive by about 10 to 15 per cent, allowing for increased output which will increase revenues and profits.
"It means that output could increase by 33 per cent, from £1.8million to £2.4million."
David Grindrod, chairman of the judging panel and deputy director of the University of Warwick Science Park, said: "The standard of the students' work never fails to impress me.
"It makes the judging extremely difficult as all of the finalists showed high levels of understanding and innovation which have benefited the companies they work for."
Jagjit won £500 and represents Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands Shell Step 2006 Regional Final in Birmingham.
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