Manufacturing Automation

Closed
Local Grown Salads
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Project
Academic experience
80 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Operations Environmental sustainability
Skills
vertical farming automation non-disclosure agreement (intellectual property law)
Details

Local Grown Salads is an indoor vertical farming company looking to expand and have farms in various parts of the world. Our farms are made up of Grow Units and within the Grow units are Cartridges; the Cartridges are where our produce grows from. We are currently looking for suggestions on how to automate our cartridge production.

Intellectual Property and Non-Disclosure Agreements:

Does your project require an IPA and NDA?

  • Yes
Deliverables
  • Suggestions on how to automate
  • Consider the pricing of parts and the total cost of creating the automation process
  • Consider spacing needs
Mentorship
  • Feedback on work
  • Communication via email or discord
  • Zoom/Discord Meetings
  • Access to company resources as needed

About the company

Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 - 10 employees
Food & beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technology, Science
Representation
Small Business Sustainable/green

We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)

We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter