I am an experienced automation and control systems engineer with 15 years of work in industrial process automation, UI and SCADA development. I am currently consultant for various small and medium sized companies in France and Belgium for automation and control solutions. I also work remotely, so geographical constraints are not an issue. My services include functional and technical specification analysis, choice of automation platform most suitable for clients' needs, feature identification, functional analysis of automation, state machine and UI charts and sequences, and system security advisory. Following are some examples of my previous work:
- Diesel engine testbench automation
- Web based SCADA for dry ice blasting facility
- Energy aggregator design for an electrical vehicle leasing company
- Wind farm monitoring and control center
- Hydraulic pressurization and flow control facility, tank pressure, temperature and flow control
- District heating monitoring and boiler control system
My knowledge of industrial automation in general covers
- diverse PLCs (siemens, schnieder, ABB, B&R, beckhoff....)
- fieldbuses (modbus, profibus, profinet, ethernet/ip...)
- OPC, OPC UA,
- different HMI and SCADA platforms (intouch, labview, pcvue...)
- functional safety analysis (IEC 61508)
- IEC 61131 Languages for PLC (Structured Text, Sequential Functional Charts, Ladder, Function block diagram)
- C (also for microcontrollers and embedded systems), C++, JAVA
- html, SQL