{"id":1916,"date":"2023-04-07T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:43","slug":"automation-controls-engineer-pe-76243-masters-in-engineering-automotive-plants-steel-mills-lumber-mills-paper-mills-forge-stamping-chemical-will-relo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/engineering\/automation-controls-engineer-pe-76243-masters-in-engineering-automotive-plants-steel-mills-lumber-mills-paper-mills-forge-stamping-chemical-will-relo\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation Controls Engineer PE (76243) Masters in Engineering \/ Automotive Plants, Steel Mills, Lumber Mills, Paper Mills, Forge, Stamping, Chemical \/ Will Relo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Automation Controls Professional with 20+ years of experience as a process\/project engineer developing automated systems for improving equipment effectiveness: improving availability, repeatability, and capacity. He has a Masters in Engineering from Purdue and is a registered Professional Engineer PE.<\/strong> His work often involved bringing new concepts into production and included elements of aerospace, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering in a variety of industries. Fred advised that his primary focus has been on continuously lowering the total cost of ownership \/operation in manufacturing plants. He achieves this through automation, improved process control and monitoring, variation and waste reductions, statistical methods, reliability improvements, and workforce development as appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He possesses a broad technical skillset and he has completed multiple continuing education courses during his career. His industry experience includes Steel mills, automotive plants, paper mills, lumber mills, and more. <\/strong>His project leadership experience usually includes the entire project lifecycle from specification development and cost justification, analysis, design, documentation, vendor coordination, operator training, installation, and 24×7 support. This Game Changer brings a lot to the table and is a great addition to any manufacturing operation. He has completed an assignment with Rockwell Automation and is looking for a new opportunity. His notable experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Support 24\/7 shop floor operations (PLC, HMI, SCADA) at XXXXX Forge.
\u2022 Support process equipment validation and qualification in pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
\u2022 Support plant operations and spearhead project to replace discontinued control equipment (PLCs, HMIs, drives) without adding downtime to manufacturing operations. Some robot integration.<\/strong>
\u2022 PLC specialist on corporate support team for multi-tier, integrated production control system in all North American FCA assembly plants.<\/strong>
\u2022 Develop PLC-based controls to coordinate drives for a Navy boat handling system to respond to wave action during loading\/unloading operations.
\u2022 I supported about 20 steel mills in the US and Canada,<\/strong> with a variety of controls (processors and HMIs) vendors, primarily Rockwell, Siemens, and General Electric, plus Invensys
\u2022 Rework PLC and HMI programs to enable $M\/yr. yield improvement via variation reductions without requiring capital or downtime.<\/strong>
\u2022 Coordinate with internal and vendor personnel on techniques and technology to allow the Beaumont mill to do a 10-day control system conversion during a scheduled 4-day outage.
\u2022 I supported about 120 work cells, cutting, drilling, bending, machining, forming, assembling, finishing, inspecting, and shipping parts.<\/strong>
\u2022 Reworked HMI of Boeing best practice Shop Floor Control\/Factory Scheduling System to add interactive SQL query capability to improve the timeliness of data to cell operators (via cgi\/browser)
\u2022 Managed, from concept, successful design and installation of a multi-station, plant floor, and material tracking system within six weeks after the order was placed (and for $500,000 or 60% less than MIS estimate)<\/strong>. The system used bar codes for both internal trackings and to satisfy customer requirements.
\u2022 Developed weight controls with 10-fold better accuracy than previous logic with the same equipment.<\/strong>
\u2022 Provided PLC system startup times one-fifth of those normally experienced by the plant.<\/strong>
\u2022 Led commissioning and controls modification of green field engineered wood manufacturing plant<\/strong> (15 controllers, 10+ HMI stations, and VAX-based SCADA networked to operate a single process line)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Steel Mills
\u2022 Automotive Parts Manufacturing
\u2022 Automotive OEMs
\u2022 Paper \/ Packaging Manufacturing
\u2022 Stamping Operations
\u2022 Material Manufacturing
\u2022 Lumber Mills<\/strong>
\u2022 Process Control
\u2022 Project Management
\u2022 Providing Maintenance Support
\u2022 Automation Design
\u2022 Troubleshooting
\u2022 Replacing Older Equipment, Discontinued PLC-5s, With Modern Equipment.
\u2022 Presses
\u2022 Ensuring High Availability
\u2022 Kaizen Specialist\/Lean\/Six Sigma
\u2022 Data Management, Analysis, Integration
\u2022 Mistake Proofing
\u2022 PLCs \u2013 Rockwell, Allen Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omran
\u2022 Process Automation
\u2022 Control Logic
\u2022 Industrial Automation
\u2022 Electrical Engineering
\u2022 HMI Human Machine Interface
\u2022 SCADA
\u2022 Instrumentation
\u2022 DCS \u2013 Rockwell Pax
\u2022 Managing Automation Projects
\u2022 Motion Control
\u2022 Conveyors
\u2022 Industrial Ovens
\u2022 Arc Furnaces
\u2022 Electronics
\u2022 Loop Tuning
\u2022 Wiring Diagrams
\u2022 Signal Integrity
\u2022 Block Diagrams
\u2022 Sensors
\u2022 Robotics
\u2022 Ethernet\/IP
\u2022 Control Systems
\u2022 Upgrading Equipment
\u2022 Analog
\u2022 Control Systems Design
\u2022 Control Panels
\u2022 Team Building
\u2022 Non-Contact Measurement (Laser, Visual, Thermographic)
\u2022 ERP System
\u2022 AC\/DC Motors
\u2022 Feedback Control
\u2022 Circuit Analysis
\u2022 AutoCAD
\u2022 Root Cause Analysis
\u2022 Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORMAL EDUCATION<\/strong>
\u2022 M.S., Engineering; Purdue University; Major: Automatic Controls; Minor: Machine Design
\u2022 B.S., Aerospace Engineering; Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND APPLICATIONS EXPERIENCE<\/strong>
\u2022 Third-generation languages: ALGOL, BASIC, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL
\u2022 Fourth generation languages: DATATRIEVE, FOCUS, IMAGE, PICK, RAMIS, SAS, SQL
\u2022 CAE tools: AutoCAD, Rockwell Automation AI & RSLogix, System Architect, System Builder
\u2022 Programmable Controllers: Allen-Bradley PLC-2,-3,-5, SLC, ControlLogix, minor GE, Omron, TI
\u2022 SCADA packages: SETCON and SETCIM from Setpoint, 7890 from Allen-Bradley, Ignition, Indusoft
\u2022 HMI packages: InTouch (Wonderware), AdvisorPC, Control View, PanelView, FactoryTalk View ME\/SE
\u2022 Operating systems: OS\/390(MVS), CMS, Pick, RT-11, UNIX, VMS, Windows
\u2022 Desktop tools: Access, Acrobat, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTINUING EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Quality Management series, Roane State
\u2022 Managing Computer Projects (SDLC), Battelle Institute
\u2022 Deming and Crosby Quality Training, while at Veratec
\u2022 Kepner Tregoe Problem Solving training, while at Veratec
\u2022 Value Engineering, USAF-ECI
\u2022 Toyota Production System training, while at Boeing
\u2022 Introduction to Robotics, Piedmont Technical College
\u2022 Programmable Controllers: Allen-Bradley PLC-2, -3, and -5, Advisor, Intelligent I\/O, Data Highway, RS-Logix 5000 (through Level 4 and including motion control), GE Proficy
\u2022 HMI: Wonderware, LabVIEW, FactoryTalk View, Ignition
\u2022 Vision Systems: Cognex, PPT Vision
\u2022 SAS Classes: Programming, Report Writing, SQL, Web Enablement series (5 classes)
\u2022 VAX Schools: System Manager, Pathworks, Network Management
\u2022 Licensed Professional Engineer (Georgia, PE015068)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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