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QA TEST CELL HMI UPGRADE TO VISUAL STUDIO - Designed and implemented complete Visual Studio HMI based on our Conferax™ rev. 3.1 OPC communications library for a QA test cell on an air compressor assembly line. The new system test behavior is completely configurable from data tables in a local SQL Server Express database, and all test results are recorded and made available for analysis.
SMELTER CHARGING ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE MONITOR - Designed and implemented an automatic system to check compliance with regulatory weight load restrictions for a smelter operation. Prior to system implementation all loads were recorded on an electronic scale and reconciled by hand. The new system automatically records each payloader, checks for charge rate compliance, prints all regulatory reports automatically, and alerts the shift supervisor when action is necessary. The system relieves approximately ten minutes per hour of shift supervisor time.
GROUND WATER ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Designed and implemented a “lights out” control system for 30 pump ground water level control plant. Subcontracted by an environmental engineering firm to provide a completely automatic system for controlling a pumping grid that mitigates groundwater egression from a plant’s grounds and sequesters TCE and other VOCs within carbon vessels, the system is completely operable via an internet connection or from a touchtone phone via dial in/dial out line using our Avizi™ rev. 1.7 alarm dialer interface. In the event of any alarm the system automatically notifies and reports conditions via phone, and can be commanded to take appropriate actions based on user input.
WEB BASED PRODUCTION PLANNING AND SAP INTERFACE - Designed and implemented a production planning and material utilization system with an add in module for SAP in an aluminum products plant. The user interface is a fully web server based design that allows planners to simulate a number of “what if” scenarios with resulting yield analysis prior to actual production. The SAP interface module is a native SAP interface module that utilizes the system’s yield calculator to provide automatic BOM information for one off sales. Preproduction plan comparison saves approximately 40K lbs of aluminum per month.
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE PLANT ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY CELL - Designed and implemented complete control system retrofit of a robotic diesel engine valve adjustment system to COTS hardware. Provided all mechanical, electrical, system logic, and plant network architectural design and installation plan from concept layout to final as built package. Coordinated all equipment vendors and supplied all craft labor for turnkey installation. Responsible for insuring compliance for NEC and local electrical codes for all control and power installations. System’s robot control PLC monitors assembly line control PLC for configuration information, resolves appropriate sequence for valve settings based on configuration, commands robot sequences for specified sequence, and reports final results including acceptance or rejection to QA database in real time via custom SCADA interface software.
EVAPORATOR/DISTILLER - Designed and implemented control system for a two stage test evaporator. The evaporator skid is assembled with various configurations of heat exchangers for each stage, and the control system allows for independent operation of each stage or operation in tandem to test product characteristics. In effect the system is an industrial sized chemistry laboratory. Testing product prior to evaporator purchase provides assurance of product suitability and information for proper equipment sizing for final system target capacity.
WASTE STREAM REDUCTION BY OIL AND PROTEIN RECOVERY - Designed and implemented a waste water oil separation and recovery system for a poultry slaughter house. Provided all mechanical, electrical, and data system logical and network architectural design and installation plans from concept layout to final as built package. Coordinated equipment vendors and craft labor. Responsible for insuring compliance for NEC and local electrical codes for all control and power installations. Final system monitors raw materials tank farm levels, controls product and additive feed flows and steam injection into the reactor tank, controls third party mechanical decanter and centrifugal separators, and provides control and indication of oil storage tank farm. System provides resalable products from wastewater and results in lower discharge volumes and elimination of solid waste burial fees.
PAINTING AND CURING SYSTEM SCADA - Upgraded and retrofitted an automotive OEM aluminum wheel painting and curing plant to a fully redundant SCADA system. Provided all mechanical, electrical, and data system logical and network architectural design and installation plans from concept layout to final as built package for upgrade work. Final control system consists of five Allen Bradley SLC-5/05 controllers, five operator station SCADA nodes, two fully redundant SCADA servers with complete failover capacity, and two fully redundant SQL server nodes with complete failover capacity. All recipe management and QA production data are stored in the SQL servers, with Allen Bradley PLCs controlling all conveying, painting, and curing oven operation. System upgrade provides 100% uptime for manufacturing and real time QA data.
SUPERVISORY SYSTEM RETROFIT - Designed and integrated a coordinated data acquisition and production tracking system for multiple vendor SCADA systems using Factory Link and Wonderware as a single unified system using MS-SQL Server as a back end repository and custom designed MS Visual Studio applications as coordinating applications for a steel rod mill. Provided all data system logic and network architectural design. System upgrade provides real time and historical QA data from various SquareD, Modicon, Allen-Bradley, and Fanuc controlled lines.
ASSEMBLY LINE RETROFIT FOR FLEXIBLE COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING - Designed and implemented a retrofit for a manually scheduled batch build automotive sub assembly line into a flexible computer integrated manufacturing line with automatic demand scheduling from an Oracle Financials Order Entry system.
CERAMIC PLANT MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM - Designed and coordinated implementation of a comprehensive SCADA and Manufacturing Execution System for thirteen equipment vendors for a three year $25 million ceramic varistor plant expansion. Responsible for all Data Models based on Unified Modeling Language (UML) standards; coordinated all vendors’ PLC and HMI programming staff for each machine cell; coordinated Industrial Informatics staff for all scheduling interface and reporting programming. Provided all data system logic and network architectural design. System provides complete flexible scheduling and both historical and real time QA data.
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