Before starting my MSc at Loughborough, I did my undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering (BSc) in the Netherlands. As part of the degree, I had the opportunity to do my final project at Heineken Zoeterwoude. This is the largest brewery in Europe and produces around 13 million bottles every day, 80% of which are exported all over the world. After a successful final project, I got offered a job as a Technologist in the brewery.
My job consisted of ensuring the quality of all these bottles produced in the brewery together with my colleagues. My role in the team was to develop and offer smart solutions to get better data from our several production lines in order to assist management to be able to make better decisions and to further drive improvements and innovations for the production lines.