Ilia — Controls/Automation Engineer

Biggest projects: PLC5 with 2 servos, 7 HMI's for a long rollformer line, helping Diverse Automation, Dominion Technologies in AB Rockwell controls of four production lines for End Aligner, Lights, ACC and LDW vehicle testing in Ford Oakville Assembly Plant.

Long term affiliate with Gescan Industrial Automation. Served as hot support for service-call urgent problems of GE controls in Ontario. As exclusive distributor in the area, they need technical support of their products on site. Troubleshooting and fixing all kind of controls and electrics by any programming software - the best match for that purpose. Biggest project - a machine line for bulb packaging with 500 I/O on ELAU servos, GE and Allen Bradley controls.

Biggest project: seven machines for automotive fixtures assembly on Omron PLC and servo controls. 2013-2016 Ultra Manufacturing, Waterloo.

Packaging lines. Biggest project - 2 robot hands and 11 servo axes.

Ford Oakville Assembly Plant 12/17-1/18 - PLC/HMI commisioning for EOL vehicle calibration and programming of Cruise Control, Lane Keeping and Headlight AIM software Debug of software with in a semi-automated cell located at Final vehicle End of Line. Long term affiliate with Gescan Industrial Automation. Served as hot support for service-call urgent problems of GE controls in Ontario. As exclusive distributor in the area, they need technical support of their products on site. Troubleshooting and fixing all kind of controls and electrics by any programming software - the best match for that purpose. Building and installing ELAU controls for a pest control filling and packaging machine line with 11 servo axes (3 robots and 5 conveyors). 2014-2016 Central Life Sciences, Dallas TX. Seven machines for automotive fixtures assembly on Omron PLC and servo controls. 2013-2016 Ultra Manufacturing, Waterloo. Three machine lines for individual cup coffee packaging with robot and multi-belt servo controls. 2014-2016 Kraft Foods, PA. A machine line for bulb packaging with 500 I/O on ELAU servos, GE and Allen Bradley controls. Over 120 business trips in USA plants for installations, troubleshooting and changes. Non-stop up to 36 hours to resolve problems and save downtime. Solving problems that original producers gave up dealing with. Example: Bradbery garage door rails roll-forming/bending line. Creating totally new solutions to get results. Example: Designing a custom sensing/controls/mechanic/pneumatic system for chiropractic's bed automatic cushion drops, including a controller with analog and digital I/O, display, keypad and communications, using only a processor core and embedded system programming tools. Conducting PLC and SCADA courses in Haward Technology Middle East. Customers: Dietrich Industries USA (Baltimore MD, Wildwood FL, East Brunswick NJ, Lunenburg MA, Hicksville OH, Fredericksburg VA...); Zinometal Israel (altogether 130+ business trips abroad); Automation Services, Alderbrook Industries, Tetra Pack, Metro Fence & Fittings, Maple Screw Products, Triumph Therapeutic Supplies, Focus Machine, Vulcan Containers, Samco Machinery, Exit Handling Corporation, Brockhouse, Roll Form Group, Unimotion Gear, Air Liquide (Hamilton and Bramalea plants), Ideal Industries, Aecometric, Nucon Wittmann, Hydroform Solutions, IPEX, Webcom Limited, Maplehurst Correctional Complex, Eurest – Compass Group Canada, Lynx Industries, The Metropolitan Tea Company, Parsec Engineering, The Mad Moos Rag Company, Clearwater Screen Printing, Haward Technology Middle East UAE, Fused Metals, VIP Industries, Maxtech Screw Products, OPG Bruce Power, El-Met-Parts Hamilton, Comau Pico, Ford Oakville, Skyway Paper Products, Nuspark Inc., Filtervac, Automation Control Systems, Fuji Electric, Machinex Recycling Services East, Steelform Building System, Mammone Disposal System, MDA controls, ABC Group, Elmpark Manor, Vesuvius Canada, MSB Plastics Manufacturing, Invotronics Inc, Elmes Packaging, European Quality Meats & Sausages, Kruger Inc., TC Glass, Magna International, Global Egg Corporation, Inscape Corporation, ACCU Electric Motors, Central Life Sciences, Gescan, Kraft Industries, Intelligent Blends, West Star Printing, Bibico Electric... Customer satisfaction examples: doubling the asking pay rate; solving urgent problems of overseas experts; advising not only for controls, but production, mechanics and hydraulics. A happy customer three years afterwards informed that one of the initiatives to optimize a production line brought $3.5mln USD in savings.

Played a major role in controls - designing, programming, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting and customer support in the startup for all machines and production lines. The only programmer and controls developer in the company. The company: - designing and developing machinery not limited by any industry field. Controls: PLC Allen Bradley, GE Fanuc, Omron, OIU - Horner and Total Control; PC based vision system with frame grabber, analog and digital interface boards; servos and stepper motors controls; AC and DC drives. Programming: all of the above PLC ladder logics; C for the PC based systems, proprietary languages and setting up of servos, sensors, OIU and other controls. Customers: Dietrich Industries USA, Pullmatic, Unimotion Gear, Brockhouse, IGI, Vulcan Containers, Walker Exhaust, Focus Machine...

Part of proud developers with innovative technical solutions, advanced for the entire Eastern Block. Developed the system software for PLC Isomatic. With more than 4,000 produced in several years, the most popular in the region, a large number sold in the broad USSR. The programming concept, the language, the system software and communications were all originally designed. The group was in industrial field-bus communications to the extent of being presented in IEEE committee establishing world standard. Personal involvement led to dissertation on the same topic. Mostly practically oriented, a major player in system programming, communications and applications. Apart from designing and developing, as one of PLC and embedded systems creators, senior advisor in customer projects with these controls. The key-role in areas of system and application communications and big hierarchical systems. Grown III to I level as R&D assistant. The original developing and the hardware problems even at customer sites built a fundamental base for the future. Doing automation there meant dealing with more challenges and logical puzzles. That is another reason to be easy and "can-do" here and now. Programming languages: Assembly for Motorola, Zilog and Intel; Pascal, C, Fortran; PLCs. Biggest projects: - A Hierarchical System of seven trans-manipulators, seven transfer shuttles, automation coordinating level and networked seven-PC higher level for warehouse data base; - A software system for off-line programming and simulating of PLC Isomatic; - The communications and drivers for trans-manipulators, sold all over the world. Key customers: The PLC producing plants; Trans-manipulators plant in Gorna Oriahovica; Export Engineering Trading Company "Balkancarpodem", Machinery Integrating and Exporting Company "IntransMash"; The Unity of plants for Oil Industry Heavy Equipment in Baku Azerbaijan.