James Horne completed various engineering projects and tasks during his internship at Cavendish Nuclear. He redesigned a lifting beam and pallet to improve efficiency. He created presentation materials on CE marking standards and reviewed the ergonomics of a proposed manual operation. A significant portion of his time was spent creating an index of relevant standards to support future design work. Overall, he gained valuable experience with standards, learned about professional development resources, and benefited from hands-on training opportunities, though he wished for more practical experience in testing.

1. Work and projects completed
Presented by James Horne

2. Lifting Beam Task
• When I started I worked with Mechanical Engineering Graduate
Sarah Griffiths
• My first task was to assess an old design for a lifting beam and
produce a calculation document to BS 2573
• The old beam caused a lot of stress on some areas and was
only just within the regulations, but then had minimal stress in
other areas and was therefore wasting materials
• I then redesigned the lifting beam to increase the efficiency and
produced a new calculation document
• The redesign kept the original
specifications of a SWL of 1500kg
and rough dimensions

3. Pallet Redesign Task
• My next project was with Mechanical
Engineering Graduate Rob Speers
• I was tasked with redesigning a pallet to
increase cost efficiency
• The original design used multiple layers of
laser cut sheets but I was able to replace
most of them with box section which is
significantly cheaper
• I was also tasked with designing a testing
rig for a “Swivel elbow” based on a
specification document
• I kept costs low as it was a single use
design
• I created some 3d models in Inventor and
engineering drawings in AutoCAD

4. Learning and Development Work
• While here I have been supported by the Learning and
Development team. They ran 2 intern events, one hosted in Irlam
and one at Radar Road
• The events were made up of presentations by Cavendish
employees and activities ran by Jamie and Louise
• The Learning and Development team gave me a task to research
the company by talking to the graduates. I was given a list of the
2014 starting grads and was told to contact and setup meetings
so I could “interview” them
• The project taught me that when I leave university there is still a
learning aspect to employment and if I were to join a scheme I
would be supported on my route to chartership

5. CE Marking Presentation
• Eric Calvert – Functional Head of Mechanical Engineering -
is doing a “Lunch and Learn” presentation on CE marking
and asked me to prepare a slideshow presentation for him
• I extracted information from the Cavendish website and the
Machinery Directive to create the slide show, I also found
real life examples from the internet
• I learned a lot about the formatting
of the CE mark and the China
Export mark which will be
invaluable to my future career

6. Ergonomics Review
• After a meeting for a project being worked on, the use of hand
operation for the machinery in question was proposed
• I was tasked with creating a document reviewing the ergonomic
viability for hand winding these platforms
• I spoke with a member of the human factors department (David
Gledhill) who gave me a copy of the Sellafield Human Factors
Guidance
• I made calculations with guidance from the documents and evaluated
whether the proposal was acceptable
• I stated that this method would cause more risk to operators and
would not be recommended from a human factors point of view

7. Standards Work
• Eric first introduced me to the Machinery Directive and
Harmonised Standards in my fourth week of my placement
• I was tasked with establishing whether a piece hydraulics control
equipment received from an external company required a
Declaration of Incorporation. I concluded that it was under sound
engineering practice so it did not
• During my 6th week I worked through BS EN 1494:2000+A1:2008
(Mobile or movable jacks and associated lifting equipment) for a
project Eric was working on
• I helped pick out the key points of some standards for the SMF
240 design review which formed the basis for the index I have
been working on

8. Standards Index
• My most recent project has been to create an Index of the
standards in Appendix 4 of ES-PRD-203. The Appendix contains
a table listing the standards likely to relate to Cavendish Nuclear
workscopes
• I first updated the procedure and stated any alterations that may
be required
• I placed all the standards I had into a file and ordered them
depending on their type (A, B, or C) and their number
• I began reading through each standard by picking out any key
points and adding them to a document

9. Standards Index cont.
• Below are the standards I was able to index
• I handed over the project to Elliot Taylor and we were able to
expand the index to cover the remaining relevant standards listed
in ES-PRD-203
• The index will be very beneficial to future projects, as it will form
the basis for technical requirement documents which Cavendish
require before starting a design project. Eric plans to introduce it
to the design manual for ease of access by the design team
 BS 2573-1:1983
 BS 2573-2:1980
 BS EN 349:1993+A1:2008
 BS EN 574-1:1996+A1:2008
 BS EN 574-2:1996+A1:2008
 BS EN 574-3:1996+A1:2008
 BS EN 614-1:2006+A1:2009
 BS EN 614-2:2000+A1:2008
 BS EN 953:1997+A1:2009
 BS EN 1005-2:2003+A1:2008
 BS EN 1005-3:2002+A1:2008
 BS EN 1005-4:2005+A1:2008
 BS EN 13155:2003+A2:2009
 BS EN ISO 12100:2010
 BS EN ISO 13849-1:2008
 BS EN ISO 13850:2008
 BS EN ISO 13857:2008
 BS EN ISO 14122-1:2001+A1:2010
 BS EN ISO 14122-2:2001+A1:2010
 BS EN ISO 14122-3:2001+A1:2010
 BS EN ISO 14122-4:2004+A1:2010
 BS EN 1037:1995+A1:2008
 BS EN 1088:1995+A2:2008
 BS EN 12198-1:2000+A1:2008

10. Has the placement been beneficial?
• Over my 11 weeks here I have been introduced to things such as the
UK-SPEC and British Standards which will be crucial in my future career
• I have attempted to map all my work to the UK-SPEC (something I
would be doing in the future to earn professional registration)
• I have enjoyed my time here and am grateful for the experience I have
gained. I will be looking for another placement opportunity next summer
• The support from the Learning and Development team was helpful and
made me feel more valued and looked after as an intern
• The only thing I believe was missing from my placement was more
hands on experience (e.g. in the TDC), there was some testing planned
for me, but unfortunately it was pushed back and I was unable to
complete it
• I have created a full report of my summer placements which contains
more details of my work and projects