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DAVE
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My
background is over 35years in Industrial Control Technology. I began
my career at the age of 15yrs as an Electrical/Electronic engineer
for a company that manufactured electronic components. After a 5
year apprenticeship, that seemed an eternity, I worked as a maintenance
& development engineer on automated production lines, which
mainly consisted of Electronic test equipment. Looking back I find
it incredible that the equipment I worked on back then, contained
Valves,
no Transistors
or Microprocessors,
just valves. Because of the high voltages involved, electric shock
was almost a daily experience as you had to work with your hand's
inside the enclosure with the mains power supply still ON. My electronic
background allowed me to build my first home computer in the early
1970's, which triggered my interest in programming, I then spent
several years writing programs in both Basic, Assembler and Machine
Code. It wasn't until 1982 before I met my first PLC. The PLC was
a Reliance PLC that used a hand held programmer, which took forever
to make program modifications, eventually we had computer terminal
on a trolley that we wheeled around to the PLC cabinet. On one occassion
during night shift, I programmed the terminal to extract data from
the PLC and represent production counts as a graph, when I showed
this to my boss (Fred a great guy) and collegues, their remarks
were, 'Don't you have anything better to do - who needs this', little
did any of us know, this was what we now know as SCADA.
I
have had times in my career that did not go according to plan, but
what I have learnt is that SKILLS do count, the more you know, the
more you are worth. As one door in your career closes, your SKILLS
allow another to open. Increase your skill level and you can safeguard
your future!
What
you will learn on a Scantime training course is built upon my experience,
so you will learn at an engineering level and not just academic.
I am as we say! "no longer climbing the career ladder"
in a way I suppose I am now climbing down the other side, so I hope
that what you will learn on one or more of our courses will help
you to climb your ladder.
Best
of Luck
Dave.
Below
is a list of the skills I acquired over my career, which allows
me to undertake projects such as the one below when I am not teaching.
PROJECTS:
Offshore Design - PLC/Scada
 PLC/Scada
system for an Oil Rig in the North sea. The system had to Control
and Monitor the storage and transfer of several thousand tonnes
of material on the Rig.
The
equipment comprised of a Mitsubishi Q series PLC, with several hundred
IO and Analogue signaling to a mixture of Motorized Prop and Standard
Valves positioned remotely around the Rig, there were also a number
of Load and Pressure sensors to ensure the material was closely
monitored at all times.
The PLC system communicated via Industrial Ethernet
to a Client - Server Scada system on three 19inch IPC (Industrial
PC), this provided the rig engineers with all the necessary control
of the system from 3 different points on the Rig.
Designing
Process Control using:
Languages: Visual Basic, VB.Net, Forth, C, Assembler
6502 / 6801 / 8080 / 16C57 / 68HC11.
PLC:
Omron CVM - C200H/HS/HG - C1000, CPM2, Mitsubishi Q02H, A3A, A2N,
FxN series, Siemens, Allen Bradley, Telemechanique, Reliance and
Keyence. IEC61131 programming.
SCADA:
Intellution, SiemensWinCC, InTouch, Citect, MX4 Scada.
HMI/MMI:
Omron NT20/600/620, Mitsubishi MX4 HMI and E-Terminals E100, E910,
Proface.
Motion
Control: Omron MC402.
Network:
Office LAN and Industrial Omron SysmacLink, Ind Ethernet, DeviceNet,
Controller Link, Profibus.
Office
IT: Developing DataBase Projects and bespoke Computer applications
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