Oil & Gas / Oil Sands
Extensive experience supporting large-scale industrial processing facilities and performance- and safety-critical control systems.
Experience includes:
- Process automation and optimization
- PLC and DCS engineering
- PID and multivariable control
- Plant-wide automation improvements
- Automated bypass strategies
- Process-upset response
- Management of Change support
- Cause-and-effect support
- Shutdown support
- Tailings and slurry process control
- Drive and motor controls
- Gateway and network modernization
- FAT/SAT
- Commissioning and start-up
Engineering contributions supported an increase in bitumen production from approximately 230,000 to 330,000 barrels per day without major production-train expansion.
A plant-wide automated bypass approach was developed to improve control-room response to process upsets and hardware failures and reduce avoidable process downtime.
A major PLC-to-DCS gateway migration was completed within approximately two hours without disturbance to plant operations.
Manufacturing & Industrial Machinery
Experience in electrical and control engineering for large custom production machinery and continuous manufacturing processes.
Experience includes:
- Machine automation
- Multi-zone heating and furnace controls
- Servo positioning
- Flying-shear controls
- Conveyor coordination
- Thermal-process control
- HMI development
- Control algorithms
- Calibration systems
- Control panels
- Electrical design
- Commissioning
- Project engineering
Led electrical and control-system engineering for continuous roll-forming machinery used in composite-panel manufacturing.
Individual machines ranged from approximately 500 kW to 1.4 MW, incorporating multi-zone heating, servo positioning, production synchronization and automated cutting systems.
Material Handling & Logistics
Automation experience with high-speed material movement, conveyors, sorting and baggage-handling systems.
Experience includes:
- Conveyor automation
- Equipment sequencing
- PLC programming
- SCADA/HMI development
- Sortation-system integration
- Material-flow control
- Equipment testing
- Commissioning
- System troubleshooting
Engineering experience includes PLC software, SCADA, testing, commissioning and support for major airport baggage-handling operations, as well as automated parcel-sortation systems.
Lumber & Sawmill Automation
Extensive experience with automated lumber inspection, grading, optimization and mill-process integration.
Experience includes:
- Automated lumber grading
- Planer-mill optimization
- Machine-vision integration
- Board tracking
- Conveyor synchronization
- High-speed printing
- Laser measurement
- Hydraulic positioners
- Optimizer integration
- Edgers, canters, planers and sorters
- PLC integration
- Custom industrial communications
- Start-up and commissioning
Project and start-up experience includes locations throughout Canada and the United States.
Marine
Electrical, electronic and automation engineering experience for marine vessels and yachts.
Experience includes:
- Automatic AC power distribution
- Generator controls
- Shore-power controls
- AC/DC distribution
- Switchgear
- Battery-charger integration
- HVAC and lighting controls
- Emergency systems
- Marine-engine interfaces
- PLC-based vessel controls
- Electrical drawings
- Commissioning and sea trials
Development of a standardized PLC-based power-distribution and control system for a range of yachts approximately 50 to 100 feet in length contributed to reductions in fabrication and installation costs of up to approximately 50%, while improving reliability and safety.
Semiconductor & Electronics
Experience in automated electronics manufacturing, industrial test systems, measurement equipment and embedded control development.
Experience includes:
- Semiconductor production equipment
- Automated product testing
- Microchip electrothermal cycling
- Electronic diode production
- Automated assembly and welding
- Printed-circuit-board inspection
- Laser-based defect detection
- Data acquisition
- High-speed measurement
- Embedded control
- Programmable signal generation
- Custom test equipment
- Hardware and software development
Engineering Experience for Demanding Industrial Applications
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