Blogs

Women in Logistics - Christina's story

Christina tells us career story of beginning her journey as a Team Manager to now serving as an Operations Manager and how her team member's achieving their goals gives her pride.

Women in Logistics - Kyla's story

Kyla talks to us about how she went from a professional classical singer to a CSTM for Ocado Logistics during the pandemic and what she enjoys most about her role.

Veteran in Logistics - Martin Hawkes

After over 23 years in the military, Martin joined Ocado as a Team Manager at Andover CFC. He tells us about the skills he's taken from the military to Ocado.

Bridging the Gap: A Non-Engineer's Journey in Collaborating with Engineers

As a non-engineer, I know what it's like for someone to feel lost in a sea of technical terms and complex processes - that’s the sea in which we swim at Ocado Technology.

Boryana Atanassova,Group Product Manager at Ocado Technology in Sofia tells us her thoughts and tips on how she collaborates with Engineers in the best way to build trust, nurture relationships and grow together.

The realities of women in tech

Do we understand the realities of being a woman in tech? We hear from three successful Ocado Technology women about their unique challenges, and consider how the industry can be more inclusive and supportive.

Engineering graduate insight: Carter

Carter is on Ocado Technology’s engineering graduate scheme and is making an impact inside our technology development teams. This is his story.

Software graduate insight: Abi

Abi is part of our Software Engineering graduate scheme, making the most of opportunities in automation, supply chain, and ecommerce technologies. This is her story.

Finance graduate insight: James

James is on the Finance graduate scheme - exploring the business and our opportunities while gaining professional qualifications. This is his story.

Business graduate insight: Cameron

Cameron has been part of the Ocado Group Business Management graduate scheme for two years, and is currently making an impact in Product Management. This is his story.

Inspiring Young Women

To mark International Women's Day, a group of women from Ocado Technology took a trip to a local school in St Albans. They spoke with female students about their careers and about possibilities for the future…

A Search Engine for Japanese Retail

Miquel Puig examines the challenges of building a search engine for non-western languages with insights from a recent Japanese project.

Making it in America

Elizabeth Theis is Ocado Technology’s Vice President of Construction and Installation in North America. Her challenges range from rapid growth to creating change in an industry that isn’t accustomed to it…

Ocado Re:Imagined, in practice

What is Ocado Re:Imagined and what does it mean for the Ocado Technology operations teams that manufacture, supply, and maintain these technologies?

International Women in Engineering Day

Three of our women technical operations engineers visited a London school to promote gender diversity in engineering. The results were inspiring!

The Military Move

Jay, Regional Lead Field Engineer, ex military, is helping to grow Ocado Technology’s international smart warehouse portfolio. He reflects on leaving service and engineering in the private sector.

Upwardly Mobile

Robert Kozlowski started at Ocado Group in a warehouse loading bay. Now he’s an Ocado Technology Engineering Team Manager (ETM), looking after cutting edge mechanical handling technologies and robotics.

Training to Succeed

Mel Wileman, Global Training Manager at Ocado Technology, explains our commitment to training our operations engineers, and a vision of opportunity for everyone.

Getting Home Safe

The keys to a safe workplace? Partnership and culture.

A healthy people-culture is one of the most important aspects of staying safe at work. HSE Director Gerry Mulholland explains how we are taking our HSE function to the next level.

How to be a bot whisperer

Our operations teams maintain advanced warehouse automation systems, including robots! Engineering Operations Trainer Terry O’Neill lifts the lid on the training we give to every new joiner.

Designing a controls engineer

Wayne Curry, Senior Development & Project Manager at Ocado Technology, defines a special Controls Engineer; custom made for Ocado Technology operations.

Top Ten Tips for Graduate Engineers

We gather insight from experience and give new engineers a big bundle of start-smarts - ready for success on our graduate engineering programmes.

Hello, robot

Robust wireless communications are critical to the operation of our smart warehouses. This article explains our approach to ensuring we can talk to our bots anytime, anywhere.

Finding the sweet spot

Accurate demand forecasting is an important aspect of a successful, large-scale ecommerce ecosystem. We employ deep neural networks to ensure the best fit forecast models for our retail partners.

Digital twins

Our smart warehouses host complex robotics and automation ecosystems, and no two are the same. So, before we change the physical world, we simulate in the digital world, with our digital twins.

Accurate demand forecasting is an important aspect of a successful, large-scale ecommerce ecosystem. We employ deep neural networks to ensure the best fit forecast models for our retail partners.

In store smartness

While our smart warehouse robots are the ones that often grab headlines, our in-store-fulfilment (ISF) solutions allow retailers to meet the growing demand for online orders using existing stores.

A business catch-22

How do you trial a vast platform that doesn’t exist yet? Isabel tells the story - a culture of innovation that allowed us to bring Ocado Smart Platform to life, starting with a chocolate bar.

How the world shops

How do we make sure the ecommerce experience is right for everyone, wherever and whoever they are? Keeping the user experience great and our solutions accessible is an interesting challenge for our UX teams.

A runner’s guide to product management

What do running and Product Management have in common? Turns out, quite a lot. Matthew lists five ways in which his hobby as a runner helps him be a better Product Manager… And vice versa.

Java - a key language for OSP

Java helps us develop intelligent systems and high-performance applications serving our business from webshop to warehouses. Matthew Cornford explores the role of Java in our techstack and why it’s still so important.

The SecondHands project

Ocado Technology and partners have been pioneering a collaborative robot that can proactively assist humans in maintenance tasks. Dr Graham Deacon describes the amazing The SecondHands project.

Keep kids coding

Lockdown demands mean that young people’s digital skills could fall between the cracks. Our Code for scheme Life and the Rapid Router game offers a free, fun way of teaching coding at home. No experience is required!

SOMA Project breakthroughs

Ocado Technology and its SOMA consortium partners made major breakthroughs in a joint project that is likely to inform robotic manipulation into the future. Here’s the story of SOMA.

Enabling an ML revolution

Our OSP Machine Learning Services team is there to support ‘machine intelligence for all’ and enable business success for the future. This is the story of that team.

A practical guide to machine learning

Everybodys talking about Machine Learning, but what is it, really? Hopefully, this will help demystify the much hyped ML.