Challenge is what drives Marina! Specializing in robotics and automation, Marina therefore did not hesitate for a moment to leave her native Spain to study in the Netherlands. There she completed her master's degree in engineering at Delft University of Technology. This led to her meeting with ALTEN, where she was offered a first project in the Netherlands: a professional and personal experience full of new challenges. Here, in addition to the Dutch language, Marina learned to develop robots: fascinating technological objects where she discovered more about their complexity and perfectibility.
"The project I am working on is focused on creating flexible solutions for the logistics sector. Our developments enable robotic arms to sort products and organize inventories and deliveries for e-commerce companies. As a software developer, my job is to program new functions that can be implemented in these robots."
Marina, then, is one of the human intelligences behind the behavior of all these robots that correctly prepare and ship orders placed online to their recipients. "Together with the team, we test the robots to then deploy them to customers. When we talk about new functions, we mean that we teach the robot to behave in the presence of people, to make movement such as picking up products and putting them on the conveyor belt to get to the production line. But also, for example, to integrate new equipment, such as a vacuum gripper designed to transport particularly heavy objects..."
Marina emphasizes the important impact her work has on the quality of the working life of logistics operators: "Thanks to the robots we develop, people can avoid tasks that are too dangerous, sometimes painful and often very time-consuming. So these robotic arms really help operators in their daily work, by saving them the physical effort and thus allowing them to focus on other value-added tasks, which improves their well-being at work!". Marina is very proud of being able to help in this regard. "I feel that I am contributing to a form of progress in our society."
"I feel like I am contributing to a form of progress in our society," he said.
In the future, Marina hopes to work as a systems architect in order to gain a more global view of robotic systems, better understand the technical interactions between hardware and software, and thereby appreciate the results of her work even more. "Seeing a robot perform the functions I helped develop at a client's site is very satisfying in itself, but fully understanding how everything comes together at the system level would be even more satisfying!".
This love for technology, which Marina felt at a very young age when she began to take an interest in how machines work, surprised some colleagues when she became the first female expert to participate in the project! "The perception of society is changing," she stresses. "I quickly felt comfortable in my role because I quickly proved that I had the skills the team and the project needed."
"More and more women are joining our teams...So if you like a challenge and cutting-edge technologies, by all means get into it and prove that it's as much a female profession as it is a male one, no matter what some statistics say.
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Brainport Digital Factory works every day with 23 active members (business and technical education) to realize the Digital Factory. We have a modern open systems manufacturing platform, on which we apply new Digital Factory technology such as AR, Low code machine models, (private) 5G, precise localization and AGVs.
By combining in-depth domain knowledge from our members, arrive at highly innovative business and engineering solutions that concretize the digital factory for both SME and large-scale manufacturing companies.
By combining in-depth domain knowledge from our members, arrive at highly innovative business and engineering solutions that concretize the digital factory for both SME and large-scale manufacturing companies.
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