Master Thesis: Billet Defects and NDT Sorting Efficiency

What do you get?

You will be a part of a company doing the right thing because its right, that already today has a world-leading CO2 position and is doing its best to create a sustainable society.

Ovako is an employer for you who likes the smaller organizations efficient decisions and the larger organizations security. At Ovako you can expect an energetic and forward-leaning place of work, with open discussions, good camaraderie and great organizational drive. As an employee you get (among other things)

• A workplace with focus on employee health, safety and wellbeing
• Great personal responsibility and freedom to how you solve your tasks
• A culture that likes to be challenged and welcomes new ideas that improves
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with engaged and experiences coworkers

Backgrund and purpose

• A considerable share of the produced billets are quality controlled in the Billet Inspection facility, where visible defects are removed by grinding or entire billets may be scrapped.
• Our understanding of the potential effects that the defects can have on the rolled products is limited.
• Implementation of NDT Control Stations in the rolling mill means that potential defects in the rolled products caused by surface defects in the billets will be detected

Research question

• Investigate how the amount sorted out in the NDT Control Stations are influenced by billet defects
• Can we exclude from control certain steel grades that today are run through the Billet Inspection Facility

If you have any questions, you are most welcome to contact: 

Nina Hedlund, Process engineer
nina.hedlund@ovako.com 

Your profile

• Bachelor or Master student
• Materials Science or Metallurgical Engineering

Information & other

Compensation

Ovako will compensate you for completed master thesis corrsponding to a value per "högskolepoäng". We can also in most cases assist with accomodation during the time you are performing your master thesis with us. Ovako will support with travel to and from our sites for interviews, eventual trips back to the university for meetings with supervisor and equivalent.

Recruitment

Selection will be ongoing and during the process you will get the chance to meet potential supervisors, relevant managers and stakeholder. The process will include ability tests, interviews, background check and references.